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Brothel Owner And CRL.500.002.3934 Brothel owner and alleged money launderer is Crown casino's business partner ................................................... 3 Xi Jinping's cousin a high roller as Crown comes under pressure over crime, influence......................................... 6 Crown's unsavoury business links: how Australia's casino got tied up with criminals.............................................. 9 Xi Jinping's cousin a high roller as Crown comes under pressure over crime, influence....................................... 15 Xi Jinping's cousin a high roller as Crown comes under pressure over crime, influence....................................... 18 How Australia's casino got tied up with criminals ................................................................................................... 21 Xi's family link to Crown high rollers ....................................................................................................................... 27 How 'Mr Chinatown' delivered the whales.............................................................................................................. 30 Crown's unsavoury business links: how Australia's casino got tied up with criminals............................................ 34 Xi Jinping's cousin a high roller as Crown comes under pressure over crime, influence....................................... 40 Brothel owner and alleged money launderer is Crown casino's business partner ................................................. 43 Brothel owner and alleged money launderer is Crown casino's business partner ................................................. 46 Sex lure for high rollers .......................................................................................................................................... 49 Sex lure for high rollers of Crown ........................................................................................................................... 52 Brothel owner and alleged money launderer is Crown casino's business partner ................................................. 55 PDM International - The organizational chart displays its 7 executives, including Dennis Lim and Elizabeth Reid ... 58 Regulation and dysregulation of axon infrastructure by myelinating glia ............................................................... 61 70th high school reunion a testament to unwavering friendship ............................................................................ 62 Forever; For 70 years, alumni of R.H. 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CRL.500.002.3935 DÔME Steak & Wine Restaurant ......................................................................................................................... 114 Physics; Reports Outline Physics Study Results from Beijing Normal University ................................................ 116 Big Apple Outlets to close in February; Tough economy killed the once bustling Port Richmond fixture ............ 117 WIPO ASSIGNS PATENT TO COLGATE-PALMOLIVE FOR "COLOR CHANGING CONSUMER PRODUCTS" (AMERICAN INVENTORS) .................................................................................................................................. 118 what's up this week .............................................................................................................................................. 119 FOOD FOR THOUGHT........................................................................................................................................ 126 Peking perfection ................................................................................................................................................. 128 State posts sizable jobs loss ............................................................................................................................... 129 HERE COME SIMON AND DYLAN TO COMPLETE A CLASSIC NIGHT ......................................................... 131 Electric Machine and Control Device Seeking Partner ........................................................................................ 133 Shiprepair world - Going gets tough at China yards. ........................................................................................... 134 Taiwan Celebrates Perfection. ............................................................................................................................ 136 Pan Kino looking towards second commercial for Skittles. ................................................................................. 137 Page 2 of 137 © 2019 Factiva, Inc. All rights reserved. CRL.500.002.3936 Brothel owner and alleged money launderer is Crown casino's business partner Nick McKenzie, Nick Toscano and Grace Tobin 1,416 words 29 July 2019 13:17 The Age - Online AGEEOL English Copyright © 2019 Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited. Not available for redistribution Crown Resorts paid a brothel owner and alleged money launderer to lure high rollers to its Australian casinos and then provided them with money to gamble, according to court files and officials that raise further questions about the company's business dealings. Multiple sources with knowledge of Crown's operations have also confirmed that Asian sex workers have been flown into Australia on private jets organised by Crown "junket" operators. Crown has partnered with brothel owner Simon Pan to bring high roller customers to gamble at the casino since 2011, according to Victorian County Court documents obtained by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes. Mr Pan owns South Melbourne brothel 39 Tope which is a few minutes drive from the casino precinct and specialises in Asian sex workers and escorts, according to its website. 39 Tope has been repeatedly raided by police and subject to sex trafficking investigations between 2008 and at least 2015, while the operations of the brothel have led to major prosecutions of mid-tier workers over breaches of Victorian prostitution laws. Documents filed in the Victorian County Court in 2015 separately detail Mr Pan's work as "Junket Representative at Crown Casino" who "arranges people to gamble at a casino and [who] the casino pays ... a commission". In addition to offering Mr Pan's junket business lucrative commissions and other incentives to bring high rollers from Asia to Crown, Crown has provided Mr Pan with access to its facilities and banking systems. Who is Simon Pan? The documents show that Mr Pan is the representative at Crown Melbourne for a Macau junket operator, the Kim Teng Jong junket, and has given Crown high rollers millions of dollars to gamble. Mr Pan's partnership with Crown raises the prospect that the proceeds from his controversial brothel could be washing through the casino's high-roller rooms. It is also possible some of Crown's big clients are being encouraged to attend 39 Tope ??? a place where federal police have rescued women they suspect of having been trafficked from Asia. Documents obtained from South Korean police show that the AFP removed two women suspected to have been trafficked to 39 Tope in 2008, a fact that also has been reported in the media. Well-placed sources said the investigations into 39 Tope between 2007 and 2015 had resulted in successful organised crime prosecutions of mid-tier brothel workers in the County Court in 2015 and had exposed the
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