Okada to Meet with Gaming Control Board Over Foreign Payments
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has called in Japanese billionaire tycoon and previous Wynn director Kazuo Okada, along with three other directors of his Universal Entertainment Corp., for a closed-door hearing week that is next. It’s all part of the Control Board’s ongoing investigation into allegations that $40 million in payments ended up being designed to Rodolfo Soriano, certainly one of Universal’s casino project consultants within the Philippines. Probably the insinuation is that Soriano received the cash to grease some Filipino palms, but we might never imply such thing, of course.
We are able to only report that both the FBI and the Philippines’ equivalent, the National Bureau of Investigation, have already been looking into the matter to see if such a thing improprietous was done. Universal Entertainment has maintained that it acted lawfully in the Philippines; after all, who does not give their specialists $40 million as being a token of these esteem?
Meanwhile, no body’s commenting: not the Nevada Gaming Control Board and certainly no one from Universal Entertainment. Perhaps that is why they call it hush money.
No Wrongdoing Alleged
This really is where we need to make clear that no body has really or officially been accused of doing such a thing, particularly anything wrong. However you can see how it may look funny is all.
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