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Foreign agents infiltrate casino junket operators: AUSTRAC – The Australian Financial Review
AUSTRAC says junket operators who bring wealthy Asian gamblers to Australian casinos have been exploited or infiltrated by criminals and even foreign agents.
The AUSTRAC report says regulators have identified a small number of links between junket tour operations and possible foreign interference activities, with money held in casino accounts potentially being used “to make political donations with a link to foreign interference.
The agency said the involvement of so-called foreign politically exposed persons in junket tour operators increases the vulnerability of this sector to exploitation for the purposes of foreign interference because these individuals…
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