Guests at Crown Towers Melbourne have access to the restaurants, cinemas, nightclubs, bars and shopping within the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex. Crown Spa offers a range of facials, massages, beauty treatments and therapies. It also has a 30 yards heated indoor pool, steam room, sun terraces and a fully equipped fitness centre. Crown Towers Hotel Crown Metropol Hotel Crown Promenade Hotel Casino Crown Melbourne offers a dazzling array of gaming options in a vibrant and sophisticated setting, providing an experience unparalleled in Melbourne. Crown is committed to providing and promoting gaming in a responsible manner. Crown Entertainment Complex Opening Hours. For full details of the Crown Melbourne COVIDSafe Plan, please click here. Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Spa are now open. For further information on venue re-openings click here. Our casino has received approval to extend operations from 9 December 2020 with a range of restrictions. For further information click here. Crown Casino Melbourne Map through £100 to get 100 wager-free spins. Deposit and play Crown Casino Melbourne Map through £200 to get 200 wager-free spins. 18+ New eligible UK players only. Offer must be claimed within 14 days of registration. All wager-free spins are available Crown Casino Melbourne Map. Crown Promenade Hotel offers spacious rooms with views of Port Phillip Bay or the city and Yarra River. Guests have access to a restaurant, bar, indoor swimming pool and fitness center. Each room at Crown Promenade Melbourne includes a luxury private bathroom, 42-inch flat-screen TV with cable channels and a minibar.

Billionaire James Packer has accepted partial responsibility for his casino empire Crown’s failings in China but has denied the accusation he threatened senior executives.

The financial crimes watchdog in 2017 said junket partnerships with Australian casinos were compliant with anti-money laundering laws. Picture: Michael Dodge/ AAP.Source:AAP

The financial crimes watchdog in 2017 said junket partnerships with Australian casinos were compliant with anti-money laundering laws, despite detailed evidence in a New South Wales probe revealing alleged money laundering at Crown Resorts has been rife for years.

An AUSTRAC report obtained by this publication has revealed the financial crimes regulator ticked off on the conduct of overseas junket operators at casinos, noting venues were “broadly” compliant with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws.

“Casinos are broadly aware of and comply with their AML/CTF obligations regarding casino junkets.” AUSTRAC said in its 2017 review of junket operators.

James Packer appears at the Crown casino inquiry.Source:Supplied

The historic assessment by the financial crimes regulator has surfaced at a time when a NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) inquiry has heard evidence junket operators at Crown Melbourne and Perth, allegedly laundered money in private gaming rooms well before 2017.

Junket operators are overseas companies that partner with casinos to attract international VIP customers on gaming holidays, particularly targeting high roller Chinese gamblers.

The NSW ILGA inquiry is seeking to determine if Crown should retain a gaming licence for its $2.4 billion Sydney Barangaroo development.

A NSW ILGA inquiry is seeking to determine if Crown should retain its Sydney gaming licence. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Jeremy PiperSource:News Corp Australia

AUSTRAC chief executive Nicole Rose, who was handed a heavily redacted version of the 2017 compliance at Senate Estimates last week, said the document was “aged” and “not correct”.

Ms Rose said AUSTRAC’s assessment of AML/CTF compliance within casinos was based on independent audits provided by the gaming operator to the regulator.

“I am told the risk assessment has now aged and is not correct,” Ms Rose said.

“The issue with junkets … is that they are hosted offshore and there are challenges with the legislation with us being able to regulate junket operators.”

Crown Resorts confirmed AUSTRAC was investigating the company regarding possible noncompliance breaches at its Melbourne casino in September 2019.

The possible noncompliance flagged by AUSTRAC comes after media allegations some of the casino’s junket partners had links to organised crime.

Crown admitted during the NSW gaming probe junket tour operators were the primary revenue source in its VIP gaming business. The Barangaroo casino is being designed as a VIP playing casino.

According to AUSTRAC, 43 per cent of suspicious casino transactions in 2019 were reported at either Crown Melbourne or Perth.

AUSTRAC CEO Nicole Rose said the 2017 report had ‘aged’. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Gary RamageSource:News Corp Australia

Labor federal Minister Daniel Mulino said the backflip on compliance raised concerns about the institutional responsibilities AUSTRAC had as the financial crimes regulator.

“If AUSTRAC had properly investigated systemic breaches of AML/ CTF legislation by casinos in 2017, it might not have been left to a NSW licensing inquiry to do that job now,” Dr Mulino said.

“Australians need to know why AUSTRAC has suddenly changed its mind about junkets and why it hasn’t taken action before now.”

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body seeking to curb financial crimes, identified casino junket operators as significant money laundering risk in 2009.

“Casino-based tourism or ‘junkets’ are identified as a vulnerability as they involve the cross-border movement of people and funds and often target high net-worth/VIP clients,” FATF said in its 2009 report.

“Transparency of the movement of funds is an issue with junkets, due to gaps in controls, and weak implementation and supervision.”

A 2018 review by FATF of Australia’s anti-money laundering laws, found legislation remained non-compliant or only partially compliant with 14 of the 40 recommendations the global task force made in its previous evaluation report in 2015.

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