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A top lawyer says he should have tried harder to stop a Chinese gambling operator with alleged links to organised crime from conducting banned transactions at The Star in Sydney.
One of Star’s top lawyers said there were “a number of occasions” where his privilege claims over internal documents and emails were “potentially incorrect”.
The Star Entertainment Group also failed to give the dirty money monitor access to bank accounts, an inquiry has heard.
A Star executive has admitted that gambling chips “act as cash but are easy to transport”. But the casino let patrons leave its premises with them anyway.
Alvin Chau, who enjoyed an $80 million cheque cashing facility at The Star, maintained his business with the casino despite warnings of links to triads.