{"id":2441329,"date":"2026-06-02T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2441329"},"modified":"2026-06-02T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:09:06","slug":"ballys-star-entertainment-fined-10-million-for-financial-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ballys-star-entertainment-fined-10-million-for-financial-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally&#8217;s Star Entertainment Fined $10 Million for Financial Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"post-content__sub-title\">\n        Posted on: June 1, 2026, 02:04h.\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"post-content__sub-title\">\n        Last updated on: June 1, 2026, 02:04h.\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-info-panel\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-holder js-open-close\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-logo\">\n                            <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Star Sydney has been fined A$10 million for regulatory shortcomings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sydney casino is accused of allowing players to gamble for marathon sessions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Star was fined A$200 million in 2022 for anti-money laundering failures<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Star Entertainment has been fined A$10 million (US$7.17 million) in New South Wales stemming from four disciplinary matters at its Sydney casino.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_386673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386673\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-386673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-858x572.jpg\" alt=\"Star Sydney casino Bally's fine\" width=\"858\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-858x572.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-430x287.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-302x200.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-238x158.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534-194x128.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/shutterstock_2071406534.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-386673\" class=\"text-description\">The exterior of The Star Sydney is pictured in a file photograph. State gaming regulators in New South Wales have fined the casino A$10 million for a series of regulatory breaches. (Image: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicc.nsw.gov.au\/news-and-media-releases\/nicc-issues-star-sydney-10-million-fines-and-enforceable-undertaking\">said<\/a> the disciplinary penalties are the result of four orders related to The Star Sydney. Australia\u2019s second-largest casino after Crown Melbourne, The Star Sydney overlooks Darling Harbor in the state capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NICC explained that The Star Sydney was fined $1.5 million for allowing customers to continuously gamble without a break longer than the prescribed limits. NSW casino rules limit a gambler to playing no more than 12 hours per 24 hours. The NICC said a player at The Star Sydney gambled for more than 36 hours straight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The casino was fined $3 million for allowing at least 1,898 customers to convert their rewards points into cash, and $500,000 for allowing an excluded person access to gamble on nine occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The steepest fine, $5 million, was for \u201csystemic failures\u201d in The Star Sydney\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/star-casino-let-fortune-teller-gamble-800k-despite-400-income\/\">financial crimes risk operations<\/a>. The fine comes with an \u201cenforceable undertaking\u201d requiring The Star Sydney to establish a $5 million account to comply with regulatory obligations to upgrade its financial crimes risk department.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Regulators Report Compliance Improvements<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NICC explained that The Star Sydney\u2019s regulatory infractions largely came before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/star-entertainment-closing-corporate-office-brisbane\/\">Bally\u2019s rescued the company<\/a> in April 2025. Bally\u2019s acquired a 56.7% stake in the organization with a A$300 million strategic capital investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While these disciplinary matters are disappointing, we have seen considerable progress at The Star under its new leadership. The NICC is confident that the revised remediation workstreams, the expertise of Bally\u2019s Corporation, and the technological uplift that has taken place since these breaches occurred have made a materially significant improvement in The Star\u2019s remediation progress,\u201d said NICC Chief Commissioner Philip Crawford.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhile we are optimistic about The Star\u2019s remediation progress, the casino\u2019s recent poor compliance history has also factored into the Commission\u2019s decision. Imposing these fines along with the enforceable undertaking reiterates the seriousness with which the NICC considers any breaches that leave customers vulnerable to gambling harm or casinos vulnerable to criminal infiltration,\u201d Crawford added.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Star Struck With Fines<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week\u2019s fines in NSW are only the latest against The Star.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Previous levies include A$200 million in fines in 2022 from the NSW and Queensland governments. The financial punishments came after state inquiries determined The Star to be unsuitable to possess casino licenses on claims that the company\u2019s casinos failed to protect against money laundering.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The governmental investigations found that Star Sydney, Star Brisbane, and Star Gold Coast did little to safeguard their gaming floors from being used to launder dirty money. As a result, the casinos were rife with people tied to organized crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Star was additionally accused of marketing and catering to high rollers who had alleged links to criminal enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.casino.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: June 1, 2026, 02:04h.\u00a0 Last updated on: June 1, 2026, 02:04h. The Star Sydney has been fined A$10 million for regulatory shortcomings The Sydney casino is accused of allowing players to gamble for marathon sessions The Star was fined A$200 million in 2022 for anti-money laundering failures Star Entertainment has been fined A$10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2441330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21823,379091,349901,479226,356517,386843,428872,358964,22111,479227,22602],"class_list":["post-2441329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-australia","tag-crimes","tag-crown","tag-financial-crime","tag-money-laundering","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nsw","tag-queensland","tag-star","tag-star-sydney","tag-sydney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Ballys-Star-Entertainment-Fined-10-Million-for-Financial-Crimes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441331,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441329\/revisions\/2441331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}