High-roller pulls off €25m casino scam
Melbourne’s Herald-Sun newspaper said a foreigner staying at the Crown Casino was involved in the betting scam, which it believes accessed the venue’s own surveillance cameras, which are trained on players and croupiers.
Information gleaned from the images taken by the high-resolution cameras was apparently signalled to the high-roller as he played cards, the paper said.
Crown said a staff member from the VIP gambling area had been sacked and the patron involved banned after the scam was uncovered several weeks ago, the newspaper added.
Victoria state police said they had been informed of the incident.
Deakin University’s Linda Hancock, who has written a book about Crown, said cameras were throughout the casino but even more intensified in the premium areas.
“There’s someone in monitoring rooms looking at them in real time,” she told the ABC.
“So they must have picked up that there was a winning streak here that looked suspicious and zoomed in on it and then been able to look at what was going on in real time in the room.”
Reports said Crown believed it could recover a significant portion of the money.
