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Monday 6 March 2017
Crown Confidential: Packer's Losing Hand
James Packer and his Crown gambling and entertainment empire have bet big, for more than a decade on China, and its VIP gamblers. These high rollers have fuelled Crown's booming businesses in Asia and Australia.
'Ladies and Gentlemen, I have made many, many mistakes in my life, but investing in China is not one of them.'James Packer, March 14, 2013
But one night in October last year, all that was turned on its head.
'They said it felt like they were suspects of a murder investigation or a drug bust. That was just how sudden and forceful the raids were.'Reporter
Fifteen Crown employees and a number of associates were swept into custody in a carefully co-ordinated series of raids across four cities in China.
'If you are referring to the Australian nationals who were detained by Chinese authorities a few days ago on suspicion of gambling activities... gambling is illegal in China.'China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
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Crown's operations had run headlong into China's biggest ever corruption crackdown, leaving its business model in disarray.
'This was a shot across the bows by the Chinese Government... of Crown, but it was a general warning to everybody else who was thinking about sending people to China to recruit Chinese high rollers to gamble in their casinos.'Former Hong Kong Prosecutor
On Monday night Four Corners investigates what went wrong for Crown in China.
Reporter Marian Wilkinson pieces together the key characters and events in the lead up to the arrests.
'There was a certain arrogance... they wouldn't touch us because we are, frankly speaking, we are white guys.'Casino Consultant
And explores what this means for Crown's casino business here in Australia, especially the multi-billion dollar Barangaroo project in Sydney, as the bottom falls out of their Chinese high roller market.
'If you've been going to Crown and you are phoned up by the local police and questioned on your movements and your past history of travel to Australia, you would be close to borderline suicidal if you were to make another trip to Australia. It's like putting big 'X' across your forehead.'Casino Consultant
Crown Confidential, reported by Marian Wilkinson and presented by Sarah Ferguson, goes to air on Monday 6th March at 8.30pm EDT. It is replayed on Tuesday 7th March at 10.00am and Wednesday 8th at 11pm. It can also be seen on ABC News 24 on Saturday at 8.00pm AEST, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.
Background Information
PAPERS AND REPORTS
Rescuing Autocracy from Itself: China's Anti-Corruption Campaign University of California, Berkeley 7 Sep 2016 - Study on the corruption crackdown by Chinese President Xi Jinping, by Xi Lu and Peter Lorentzen. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2835841
Triad Organized Crime in Macau Casinos: Extra-Legal Governance and Entrepreneurship British Journal of Criminology 8 Feb 2016 - The Chinese criminal underworld is evolving along two paths: structural and territorial-based triads and criminal groups formed by entrepreneurs. The present study used triad involvement in casino VIP rooms to examine how these two paths cross after China resumed sovereignty of Macau in 1999. Read the study, by Dr Sharon Kwok and Professor Lo of Hong Kong City University. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bjc/azw014/2623919/Triad-Organized-Crime-in-Macau-Casinos-Extra-Legal
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Life inside a Shanghai detention centre: Former detainee offers insight to Crown staff - by Four Corners ABC News 6 Mar 2017 - Peter Humphrey is a British national who was arrested and held in a Shanghai detention centre in 2013. He spoke to Four Corners about his traumatic experience during his two years behind bars. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-06/former-shanghai-detention-centre-detainee-gives-advice-crown/8328054
Crown's local casino licences under scrutiny if China hands down conviction, former regulator boss warns, by Four Corners ABC News 6 Mar 2017 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-06/crown-resorts-local-operations-under-scrutiny-four-corners/8326428
Crown assembles legal war room in act of 'a--- covering' The Age 26 Nov 2016 - http://www.theage.com.au/business/crown-assembles-legal-war-room-in-act-of-a-covering-20161124-gswpdv.html
Crown staff 'formally arrested', face months behind bars SMH 21 Nov 2016 - http://www.smh.com.au/business/crown-resorts-employees-formally-arrested-face-months-behind-bars-20161120-gstlh1.html
Crown's Chinese middleman to VIP high-rollers among those arrested in raids by Philip Wen SMH 7 Nov 2016 - http://www.smh.com.au/business/crowns-chinese-middleman-to-vip-highrollers-among-those-arrested-in-raids-20161103-gsh1aj.html
Four Australians being helped in China, Julie Bishop says SMH 30 Oct 2016 - http://www.smh.com.au/business/crown-arrests-julie-bishop-says-four-australians-receiving-assistance-in-china-20161030-gse0p9.html
Meet 'Mr Chinatown' of Toorak, Crown's biggest whale catcher SMH 29 Oct 2016 - http://www.smh.com.au/business/meet-mr-chinatown-of-toorak-crown-casinos-biggest-whale-catcher-20161027-gscj6d.html
Macau junkets are finally on a roll, but will it last? South China Morning Post 24 Oct 2016 - http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2039082/macau-junkets-are-finally-roll-will-it-last
Crown Casino arrests: Jail fears for staff detained in China for alleged gambling crimes ABC News 17 Oct 2016 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-17/crown-casino-resorts-staff-in-china-jail-fears/7937608
ANALYSIS James Packer's Crown casino plans for Barangaroo threatened by China arrests, by Ian Verrender ABC News 17 Oct 2016 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-17/james-packer-crown-barangaroo-plans-threatened/7938136
Three Australians among 18 Crown Resorts staff held in mainland South China Morning Post 16 Oct 2016 - http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2028434/three-australians-among-18-crown-resorts-staff-held-mainland
Here's how the real high-rolling VIPs gamble Business Insider 16 Sep 2015 - http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-high-rollers-vips-gamble-casinsos-2015-9
British Investigator Hired by Glaxo Is Freed From China Prison NYT 9 Jun 2015 - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/business/international/british-investigator-peter-humphrey-is-released-from-chinese-prison.html
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High Rollers - High Risk? 15th September 2014 - Linton Besser investigates the drive to entice foreign gamblers to Australia and the implications of that strategy. Watch Online
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