MBS and RWS : 44 instances of misconduct ; total fines S$385,000 only

[Mdm Tang]

MBS made more S$1 Bn during last Quater of 2011


or S$500,000 every hour per day !!!


Peanut fines


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http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120206-326220.html



MBS and RWS slapped with fines for breaching social safeguard requirements

Altogether 44 instances of misconduct were held against both casinos totalling to $385,000 in fines. -AsiaOne

Mon, Feb 06, 2012
AsiaOne

Both Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa have been slapped with heavy fines for breaching social safeguard requirements.

Local media reports said Marina Bay Sands (MBS) was fined $255,000, while Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) was imposed financial penalties of $130,000.

The offences include allowing people to remain who managed to enter the gambling hall despite being disallowed into the casinos, allowing Singaporeans and permanent residents to enter the casinos without paying the $100 entry levy, and allowing minors in.

The Straits Times reported that altogether 44 instances of breaching social safeguard requirements were held against both casinos.

Chief executive of the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA), 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."

This is the first case of disciplinary action taken since rules were tightened in November 2011 to ensure casinos do not target the domestic market.

 

[Mdm Tang]

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I strongly recommend the Casino Regulatory Authority to


conduct a Raid on the 2 Casino and

check on how they give out line of credit to gamblers.


Were due checking done before granting credit ???


Or has our legal system become a Debt Collecting Hub in Asia

and in the World !!!!

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. ah tank, wayang wayang mah!
2. only daft sheep believe such load of crap.

 

[Mdm Tang]

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I strongly recommend the Casino Regulatory Authority to


conduct a Raid on the 2 Casino and

check on how they give out line of credit to gamblers.


Were due checking done before granting credit ???


Or has our legal system become a Debt Collecting Hub in Asia

and in the World !!!!

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http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?109400-MBS-Vs-Takami-Shinichi-(-2-Feb-12-)



http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?109406-Punters-Loses-S-1-Billion-To-MBS-in-Q4-2011


http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?108757-MBS-Vs-Lester-Ong-Boon-Lin


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[Mdm Tang]

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Two casinos fined total of $385,000


Date07 Feb 2012
AuthorNg 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.

Marina Bay Sands (MBS) was responsible for letting in 24 of the 44 individuals between October 2010 and April last year; it has to pay a penalty of $255,000.

Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), which let in the remaining 20 individuals between August 2010 and last April, has been dealt a $130,000 penalty.

The Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) has meted out other penalties before, but this is the first time the two casinos have been rapped for 'failing to prevent' those barred from entering or remaining in their establishments from doing so.

It said in a statement yesterday that the lapses breached the Casino Control Act and its regulations and warranted tough disciplinary action.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports said: 'We view the lapses very seriously. We expect the casino operators to fully comply with the social-safeguard requirements.'

Under the Casino Control Act, casino operators must ensure that Singaporeans and permanent residents pay the $100 entry levy, which allows them to be in the casinos for 24 hours.

They must also check that those on exclusion orders and minors are not allowed entry.

They also have a duty to report to the CRA when such breaches are found.

Casinos 'must improve entry systems, step up checks'

The Straits Times understands that individuals who were minors or who had not paid the levy or were under exclusion orders had managed to slip in because the casino operators were lax in their checks at their entrances.

Gamblers who had overstayed their allotted 24 hours were mostly caught upon leaving the casinos, when they had to get their identification cards scanned at the exit.

CRA chief Lau Peet Meng said yesterday that the breaches were serious as they undermined the social safeguards put in place to protect those more vulnerable to the ill effects of gambling, such as minors and gambling addicts.

He said: 'The operators will need to improve their entry systems and processes, exercise more diligence in carrying out their checks and comply fully with our laws and regulations.'

Last May, RWS had to cough up $530,000 for paying the entry levy for media representatives and for failing to maintain its surveillance system and processes to the standards required. Five months before this, it was censured for making unauthorised changes to its surveillance system.

This is MBS' first penalty.

Yesterday, the two casinos said they were committed to complying with the regulatory requirements.

An RWS spokesman said the casino had beefed up its checks and would review its procedures regularly.

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