The company is pushing ahead with plans to open its gaming floors months before an inquiry releases its findings into Crown's suitability to hold a casino licence.
James Packer knows that Crown’s time partnering with junket operators with dubious links to organised crime and it not paying enough attention to money laundering is over.
James Packer tried for two years without joy to sell out of Crown. Now the intensely private Packer is the star witness in a legal drama that could change his casino giant forever.
Guy Jalland,the chief executive of James Packer’s private company,was grilled over a document that exposed a possible breach of Crown's NSW licence.
A top Crown Resorts executive told a colleague it would be difficult to convince their bosses to"temper their expectations"of profits before he was arrested.
The NSW government has won a legal battle to force Melco Resorts to hand over secret company documents to its inquiry into probity and licensing issues at Crown Resorts.