Chips
Are Down: Jailed High-Roller Warns of Casino
Risk
As reported by the Sunday Times:
"Crown Casino's biggest gambler was blowing
more than $10 million a visit before being jailed
for 42 years.
"High-flying
Singapore executive Chia Teck Leng has detailed
staggering losses at the Melbourne casino.
"Chia
bet the house maximum of $280,000 a hand on
Crown's private blackjack tables during 50 trips
over three years.
"He
was arrested in 2003 and jailed over a global
fraud that saw $190 million in stolen funds
stashed in his Crown membership account.
"In
a tell-all story of his downfall, written from
behind bars in Singapore's Changi Prison, Chia
warns of the perils of high-roller gambling.
"...After
his arrest, Chia, now 45, was told by police
he was the world's second-biggest casino gambler..."
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