{"id":34392,"date":"2017-07-12T06:12:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34392"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:12:25","slug":"china-releases-first-crown-resorts-staff-jailed-for-gambling-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-releases-first-crown-resorts-staff-jailed-for-gambling-crimes.html","title":{"rendered":"China releases first Crown Resorts staff jailed for gambling crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">China releases first Crown Resorts staff jailed for gambling crimes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">China releases first Crown Resorts staff jailed for gambling crimes:- China released 10 employees of Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd on Wednesday, the first of 16 who were detained in October and sentenced in June for gambling crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Four employees, including Australian national Jerry Xuan, emerged from a Shanghai detention facility accompanied by family members and security officials, according to a Reuters reporter at the scene. They left immediately in cars without speaking to media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Another six were released from a second facility in the city, said a man who identified himself as a lawyer for the families and who declined to give his name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Everything went ok,&#8221; a family member of one of the employees told Reuters on condition of anonymity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Nineteen employees were detained as Crown was trying to attract high-spending Chinese to its casinos outside of China, where gambling is illegal except in the territory of Macau. A court jailed 16 of the employees including three Australians for nine to 10 months, back-dated to their October detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The incident prompted Crown to shift focus to its home market. It had been a shareholder of Macau-focused Melco Resorts &amp; Entertainment Ltd but sold its remaining stake for $1.16 billion in May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-crown-resorts-china-idUSKBN19X0CA<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/china-releases-first-crown-resorts-staff-jailed-for-gambling-crimes.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China releases first Crown Resorts staff jailed for gambling crimes China releases first Crown Resorts staff jailed for gambling crimes:- China released 10 employees of Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd on Wednesday, the first of 16 who were detained in October and sentenced in June for gambling crimes. 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