Max Mason

Sydney

Senior Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Senior reporter @FinancialReview. Former media editor. Get in touch: [email protected] ProtonMail: [email protected] Signal: maxepmason14

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High-risk junkets accounted for 14pc of Star’s revenues for five years

1 day ago | afr.com | Zoe Samios |Max Mason

Star Entertainment’s high-risk junket business generated 14 per cent of the company’s revenues over a five-year period before the casino giant was undone by the COVID-19 pandemic and an investigation which revealed it had turned a blind eye to high-rollers laundering money in its venues. Star, which runs casinos in Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, made the admission in documents filed in the Federal Court as part of a lawsuit brought by AUSTRAC, the agency which pursues financial crimes.
Star pleads for mercy in AUSTRAC money laundering case

3 days ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterJun 4, 2025 – 6.15pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Embattled casino operator Star Entertainment is pleading for mercy in the face of charges brought by the financial crime watchdog, arguing it has limited capacity to pay fines for its alleged facilitation of money laundering by VIP patrons.
Adgemis pays out workers in hope of reviving collapsed pubs empire

3 days ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterJun 4, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former KPMG deal maker turned publican Jon Adgemis has transferred the money he owes to Public Hospitality staff for superannuation as the businessman tries to rebuild his collapsed hotel empire.
Federal Court faces audit prospect over legal expenses

5 days ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterJun 2, 2025 – 5.08pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Federal Court of Australia faces the prospect of being audited after failing to properly account for at least $933,000 of internal legal spending.
AFR readers have their say on North West Shelf project, Labor’s $3m super tax, Newington College going co-ed

5 days ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterJun 2, 2025 – 4.11pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Readers of The Australian Financial Review have backed the Albanese government’s decision to extend the life of Woodside’s massive North West Shelf project as it seeks to shore up gas reserves to help with Australia’s transition from fossil fuels.
Inside the legal fight rocking billionaire Alex Waislitz

6 days ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterJun 2, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Billionaire Alex Waislitz allegedly agreed to give his now-fiancee two luxury townhouses and $2.5 million in cash if she waived any rights she might have as the mother of his child, and at one point during a brief separation allegedly asked her to have an abortion.
The ATO has applied to wind up this former Ange-coached club (again)

1 week ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 29, 2025 – 3.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Tax Office has sought to formally wind up A-League soccer team the Brisbane Roar, escalating a long-running dispute with the club as the chief executive says it was close to being settled.
Former Star directors to wait until next year as ASIC hearings end

1 week ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 28, 2025 – 5.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Federal Court judge overseeing the corporate regulator’s marathon legal claim against Star Entertainment’s former directors and executives has flagged he is unlikely to make a ruling until next year as he finalises other matters and goes on long service leave.
Newington defeats old boys’ challenge to co-ed plans

1 week ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 28, 2025 – 4.23pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The high-profile fight to stop a 162-year-old Sydney private school from opening its gates to girls ended in a packed CBD courtroom on Wednesday with none of the emotion and tumult of the past few years.
Court hears of ex-Star chief Matt Bekier’s ‘glee’ at Crown Resorts’ money laundering issues and crime gang crisis

1 week ago | afr.com | Max Mason

Max MasonSenior courts and crime reporterMay 27, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The former chief executive of Star Entertainment allegedly could not contain his glee at the misfortune of his rival’s entanglement with Asian crime gangs three years before he resigned over a similar scandal.