2 casinos fined total of $385,000 for lax entry safeguards

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2 casinos fined total of $385,000 for lax entry safeguards

Published on Feb 7, 2012

Police were called into Resorts World Sentosa yesterday evening after more than 50 participants in a lucky draw turned rowdy following a dispute over the timing of the draw. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG

By Ng Kai Ling

The two casinos have been dealt penalties amounting to $385,000 for allowing a total of 44 people to enter or be on their premises when they had no business being there.

Of the 44, 19 were Singaporeans or permanent residents who had entered the gaming halls without having paid the $100 entry levy.

Another five were gamblers who had paid the levy, but stayed beyond the 24 hours that the levy entitled them to.

Seven others were let into the casinos when they were on exclusion orders and should therefore have been barred from entry; the remaining 13 were aged 21 or under.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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MBS and RWS fined for breaching Casino Control Act

Published on Feb 6, 2012

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Both Marina Bay Sands (MBS) and Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS) have been slapped with financial penalties for failing to meet the social safeguard requirements to contain and control the potential harm of casino gambling to society, during the periods Oct 28, 2010 to April 30, 2011 and Aug 15, 2010 to April 30, 2011 respectively. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANG

By Ng Kai Ling

Both Marina Bay Sands (MBS) and Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS) have been slapped with $385,000 in penalties for lapses in their security and screening.

This resulted from 44 cases of people who managed to enter or remain in the gambling halls despite being disallowed into the casinos.

These included 19 cases where Singaporeans and permanent residents were allowed in without paying for the $100 entry levy; five cases where gamblers overstayed the tenure of their entry levies, seven where people on exclusion orders were allowed to enter and 13 cases where minors were allowed in.

Commenting on the breaches, chief executive of the Casino Regulatory Authority, Mr Lau Peet Meng said, 'These social safeguards are put in place to mitigate the casino's potential impact on vulnerable persons and to ring fence the casinos from potential criminal influence.

Hence, we are taking tough disciplinary action against the casino operators for the cases where they have failed to show due care in complying with our requirements to prevent minors and excluded persons from entering the casinos, and to ensure that entry levies are duly paid.'
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