Crown Australia Croupier's $100,000 Scam

Sic Bo

The Crown Casino in Victoria, Melbourne has been the victim of an inside job by a Sic Bo croupier. The 20 year croupier worked the scam with 5 other casino patrons using rigged dice and a series of irregular payments to his accomplices to earn the group $100,000.

The 20-year-old, who is a student, was handed over to the police after he was recorded making payments to his accomplices in the casino car park. The croupier kept 65 percent of the winnings with the other 35 percent split between the players involved in the scam.

The casino has been in news recently with its alleged links to the criminal underworld. A large scale heroin drug trafficking ring operated from the casino under the glare of CCTV.

The Malaysian high-roller Wei Seng ‘Paul’ Phua who has links to the Asian 14K Triad crime syndicate was at the casino for the Aussie Millions poker tournament last month.

Phua and associate Seng Chen ‘Richard’ Yong had been involved in a long running battle with the FBI for running an illegal betting operation in Las Vegas.

Phua owns the Philippines based online bookmaker IBC Bet which handles around $60 billion worth of bets a year. He was linked to the suspected 'fixing' of Premier League match matches in 1997 involving West Ham v Crystal Palace and Arsenal V Wimbledon who both had cancelled matches after suffering loss of power to the pitch floodlights. Bets with Asian bookmakers on football matches cancelled after half time are settled on the half time score.

Paul Phua is a major player, we know that he has links into some of the unregulated betting markets that operate in the Philippines.

The FBI operation was able to bring out into the open some of the information that now is known around him, and it gives us great concern the sheer volume of money that passes hands in this area, of the organised crime links in that space as well.

Neil Paterson - Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner

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