“The Star accepts here, as it did in the Bell Inquiry, that the procedure by which China UnionPay cards were swiped at terminals at the hotel but were then used to fund gambling ‘obscured the true nature of the transactions and masked the fact that funds were used for the purpose of gaming from UnionPay and Chinese financial institutions’,” the review reads. National Australia Bank had queried how Star was accounting for the funds, and Mr Gotterson concluded that the company, “on any view less than complete at best, and, at worst, deliberately misleading”. In his review, Mr Gotterson said a “principal issue” was a “concerted effort on the part of The Star to characterise these transactions as related to hotels when in truth the primary use of the China UnionPay funds was for gambling”. The second instance was between March 2022 and April 2022. The first stint was between June 2017 and December 2018. Star’s casinos allowed patrons to illegally use credit cards for over two years, the Queensland government said on Monday. This follows a short inquiry led by Robert Gotterson, SC, released in October, which found Star deliberately misled the Queensland gaming regulator to cover up China UnionPay transactions as hotel expenses when their primary use was gambling. Queensland Attorney-General and Minister Shannon Fentiman. Queensland Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman said the charges related to sections of the state’s casino legislation which prohibit the purchase of gambling chips with a credit card. Star Entertainment has pleaded guilty to seven charges of illegally helping patrons use credit cards to gamble at its Brisbane and Gold Coast casinos.
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