Queensland Appeal Court Won’t Toss Case Against $30M Baccarat Whale
A Singaporean baccarat in high spirits roller with ties to the online betting industry is existence chased for a A$43 billion (US$30 million) gambling debt by the Star Gold Coast Casino inwards Queensland, Australia.
Billionaire Dr. Wong Yew Choy failed inward his tender to acquire the instance thrown and twisted out of the Queensland Supreme tribunal on Friday.
Wong arrived at the Gold Coast venue on ane of the casino’s private jets inward July 2018, according to the complaint from manipulator Star Entertainment,
The high-pitched roller was granted A$40 zillion (US$30 million) inward chips, which he missed within III days. The casino and so gave him an additional A$10 billion (US$7.6 million). After a week at the tables, he left the cassino exactly A$43,209,853.34 (US$32,887,019.38) inwards the red, according to Star. This included a hotel visor of o'er A$420,000 (US$320,000).
The chips were extended as credit, to live settled later, which is non unusual for a luxuriously tumbler of Wong’s standing. He submitted as protection deuce dummy checks, leaving the gambling casino to make full inward the particulars. But they bounced when the cassino tried to cash in them.
‘Unjustified Oppression’
Star initially chased the debt through and through the Republic of Singapore courts, but they sided with the billionaire. That’s because the urban center state’s Civil Law Act prohibits the regime from assisting foreign companies seeking to recoup debts related to to overseas gambling.
In his question to hold the showcase dismissed in the Queensland Margaret Court of Appeals, Wong argued the Republic of Singapore ruling should stand, and farther judicial proceeding represented “unjustified oppression” against him, which “brought the administration of justice into disrepute.”
He is again forced to face the same allegations inward a different legal proceeding … which constitutes the vexation inherent inwards Star’s conduct,” Wong’s lawyers wrote. “This is a display case where Star has meshed inwards ‘staged conduct’ of litigation using this court’s processes to ‘hedge its bets.’”
He also argues he shouldn’t make to compensate the money because the dealers kept on making mistakes.
But appeals tribunal judges were non convinced.
“Dr. Wong should not have considered that his contravention with Star was at an ending once the Republic of Singapore proceeding was dismissed,’ they wrote.
In April, a Supreme Margaret Court jurist permitted the instance to proceed, describing it as a “relatively straightforward” arrogate for redress that should be determined on its merits.
Wong is Former SBOBET Director
Wong is a former director of Celton Manx, which owns SBOBET. This was the foremost Asian betting society to sponsor an English Premier League team, Dame Rebecca West Ham United.
A spokesperson for Celton Manx told Casino.org that Wong resigned from the office in March 2019. That’s as shortly the troupe became aware of his difference of opinion with Star.
Wong owns the Zac Stable inwards Singapore, which has produced several winning racehorses trained past Australian Clifford Brown.
His lawyers draw him as a “highly respected patron of casinos around the world, who is regularly provided with concessions and motivator packages.”