• Macau Junkets – The Beginning Of The End For VIP Casino Players

    The casinos of Macau have a heavy dependency on high rollers coming across the border from China. Macau-based junkets offer incentives and even credit to these wealthy Chinese players. They receive a fat commission from the casinos themselves for providing players who will happily spend millions of dollars at a single sitting. It goes without saying, that this creates a massive need for money laundering and wire fraud. As a result, China is cracking down on Macau casinos to stop all junkets.

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  • South Africa: The History and Current Gambling Climate

    Today there are many casinos where you can gamble in South Africa, though it wasn't always so liberal. Up until 1965 only gambling on horses was introduced. Then in 2004 a new gambling Act of parliament finally made all forms of gambling legal.

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