{"id":13392,"date":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/criminal-accusations-have-been-made-against-crown-casino\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:00:00","slug":"criminal-accusations-have-been-made-against-crown-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/criminal-accusations-have-been-made-against-crown-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Accusations Have Been Made Against Crown Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crown Casino has been accused of tampering with poker machines to increase profits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/rown.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The allegations were made in parliament on Wednesday by Independent Tassie MP Andrew Wilkie:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cToday very serious allegations have been levelled at the poker machine industry,\u201d he said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAlthough the allegations focus on Crown in Melbourne, they could also suggest a broader pattern of behaviour in the poker machine industry which would obviously have grave implications for people right around Australia\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThese allegations are obviously very serious. If Members and Senators, law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and the media, scrutinise the video record of the whistleblowers\u2019 testimony, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll agree that the claims warrant an immediate and strong response.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI call on the Federal and Victorian governments to ensure the allegations are investigated thoroughly. The truth will not be uncovered without a parliamentary inquiry, as well as investigations by law enforcement and regulatory agencies.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andrew Wilkie alleges Crown Casino manipulated poker machine software &quot;in particular on weekends&quot; to impact naive and casual users. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JqilVVq7zz\">pic.twitter.com\/JqilVVq7zz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Charles Croucher (@ccroucher9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccroucher9\/status\/920439970489286657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Casino has been accused of tampering with poker machines to increase profits. The allegations were made in parliament on Wednesday by Independent Tassie MP Andrew Wilkie: \u201cToday very serious allegations have been levelled at the poker machine industry,\u201d he said. \u201cAlthough the allegations focus on Crown in Melbourne, they could also suggest a broader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Criminal Accusations Have Been Made Against Crown Casino - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/criminal-accusations-have-been-made-against-crown-casino\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Criminal Accusations Have Been Made Against Crown Casino\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Crown Casino has been accused of tampering with poker machines to increase profits. 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