Jessie Javier Carlos MARIANNE BERMUDEZ BATANGAS CITYJessie Javier Carlos, the gunman in Fridays attack on Resorts World Manila, was so deep in debt and desperate for cash that he had to sell off anything of value he owned, including the assault rifle he used to shoot up walls and TV screens in the hotel-casino complex.…
A Cleveland street where iconic boxing promoter Don King once killed a man 50 years ago is about to be renamed Don King Way. Only in America. The Cleveland City Council plans to rename an area of Cedar Avenue between East 36th Street and Stokes Boulevard after the bombastic boxing hall of…
Canberra mum Kate Seselja is happy for you to ask her anything about her former poker machine addiction. Anything. How could you take money from your own childrens’ mouths? Why didn’t you just stop? How much debt did you rack up? Why didn’t someone at the club report you? Play Video Don’t Play National Capital…
Jessie Carlos. (Twitter) The suspect in the Manila casino attack that left more than three dozen dead has been identified as Jessie Carlos, a gambling addict who was drowning in a mountain of debt. Carlos was named as the troubled, gambling indebted former government worker who strode into the Resorts World Manila and started shooting…
The man behind the casino attack in the Philippines that left dozens dead was a heavily indebted Filipino who was hooked on gambling, police say. Manila police Chief Oscar Albayalde said Sunday the family confirmed the man’s identity as Jesse Carlos, a former employee of the Finance Department. Albayalde said the man’s family said he was $80,000…
Singapore casinos have more trouble getting gamblers to pay up than their Macau counterparts. Reuters Former Olympic gold medallist Kong Linghui is being sued in Hong Kong by the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore over his HK$2.55 million (US$329,000) gambling debt. Each year, millions of mainlanders head to Macau, a special administrative zone of…
Lending money to big time gamblers is easy for Singapore casinos, but collecting on those debts is time consuming and difficult. VIP clients who are in debt to casinos is increasing and becoming more of an issue. VIP casino clients, like China table tennis gold medalist, Kong Linghui, are not paying back gambling debts to Singapore…
Beijing (AFP) – China has replaced the head coach of its women’s table tennis team at the world championships in Germany following a gambling debt scandal that sparked a social media frenzy back home. Kong Linghui, nicknamed “ping-pong prince”, has been suspended after accusations he borrowed S$1 million in 2015 from a Singapore luxury hotel…
Singapores casinos have a problem with attracting revenue from mainland tourists, and face even more problems trying to recover their debts from Chinese gamblers, who simply have to flee back to China to evade payment. Channel NewsAsia reported recently that according to a Hong Kong court writ, Kong Linghui, one of Chinas best-known table tennis…
A Chinese gold medalist from the 1996 Olympics has been sued by a casino in Singapore over an alleged gambling debt. The BBC reports that a lawsuit claims that former table tennis world champion Kong Linghui owes Marina Bay Sands the equivalent of $330,000 USD. Kong denies the allegations, saying that it must have been…