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Chips Are Down: Jailed High-Roller Warns of Casino Risk9 January 2006AUSTRALIA -- 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..." |