, Mr Crawford said he was unaware of long-standing, poor practices at Star, or the damning KPMG reports.
“I suspect that if you were the person responsible for looking at this over a time period and you didn’t identify it, it’s one of two things: you’re either incredibly bad at your job or there is some other reason that this hasn’t been picked up.” Mr Trajkoski was made a member of Star’s invitation-only Diamond Club and given all-hours access to a Star employee who was told to accommodate his every need, including late-night limousines and accommodation requests.Star Entertainment CEO Mat Bekier when asked in 2019 if the company would keep doing business with Chinese junket operator Suncity.
Casino records reveal that Mr Trajkoski told staff he was a car salesman, a falsehood never checked by Star. The casino also permitted Mr Trajkoski to gamble on the pokies in stretches of up to nine hours at a time, indicators of both problem gambling and, in some situations, money laundering.A Star insider said a senior manager had told him that despite suspicions about Mr Trajkoski’s gambling habits and source of income, Star decided to keep taking his money “until this all blows up”.