{"id":19912,"date":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/security-guard-considers-legal-action-after-altercation-with-james-packer\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T00:00:00","slug":"security-guard-considers-legal-action-after-altercation-with-james-packer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/security-guard-considers-legal-action-after-altercation-with-james-packer\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard considers legal action after altercation with James Packer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A Crown Casino security guard who refused entry to James Packer on New Year\u2019s Day when he didn\u2019t recognise the casino\u2019s billionaire owner has now engaged lawyers after an altercation followed which saw the guard hospitalised.<\/h3>\n<p>Dr Iskandar Chaban, 60, who collapsed on his way home after the incident, says he didn\u2019t recognise Mr Packer or senior casino executive Ishan Ratnam, who was with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever there is trouble at the casino I only ever whisper to the troublemakers quietly \u2018let\u2019s not let this get out of hand,\u201d Dr Chaban told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to calm things down, I never even shout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just doing my job. I had no idea who the men were at first. How they treated me was inhuman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames Packer treated me as if I was nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dr_chaban.jpeg\" width=\"649\" height=\"366\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Dr Iskandar Chaban has a PhD in Philosophy | Image | heraldsun.com.au<\/h6>\n<p>On Saturday a spokesman for Crown confirmed a \u201cminor incident\u201d involving a \u201ccollision\u201d had taken place as a result of a \u201cmisunderstanding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the guard had been warned by radio that a VIP was approaching, but the guard had failed to recognise Mr Packer and had blocked his path.<\/p>\n<p>Crown says Dr Chaban was suspended then reinstated following a routine inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Chaban said Mr Packer and Mr Ratnam both screamed at him and pushed him aside at the entry to the main gaming floor at Crown Towers, before demanding that he be sacked on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did nothing wrong,\u201d Dr Chaban said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t deserve the way I was treated, I\u2019m still in shock trying to take it all in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/funi-pregnancy-rumour-gathers-steam\">THIS BIG ADELAIDE RUMOUR IS BUILDING STEAM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/reporter-s-bikini-mishap-makes-news-around-world\">REPORTER\u2019S BIKINI MISHAP MAKES NEWS AROUND THE WORLD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Crown Casino security guard who refused entry to James Packer on New Year\u2019s Day when he didn\u2019t recognise the casino\u2019s billionaire owner has now engaged lawyers after an altercation followed which saw the guard hospitalised. Dr Iskandar Chaban, 60, who collapsed on his way home after the incident, says he didn\u2019t recognise Mr Packer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6376,"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-19912","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>Security guard considers legal action after altercation with James Packer - 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\/security-guard-considers-legal-action-after-altercation-with-james-packer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security guard considers legal action after altercation with James Packer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Crown Casino security guard who refused entry to James Packer on New Year\u2019s Day when he didn\u2019t recognise the casino\u2019s billionaire owner has now engaged lawyers after an altercation followed which saw the guard hospitalised. 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