A second whistleblower has come forth detailing Alex Pariente’s alleged mishandling of anti-money laundering and compliance protocols at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
The source, who has decades of casino gaming industry experience, contacted Casino.org following the Wednesday publication of an article highlighting some of Pariente’s purported mishandling of cash, including allowing credit markers to go unpaid, at the Caribbean resort. The informer shared with Casino.org an email dated Aug. 5, 2020 in which he made Hard Rock compliance staff in Florida aware of the executive’s fast-and-loose treatment of credit issued to gamblers, adding Pariente made questionable hires with at least a pair of junket representatives.
Those proceeds were deposited into Alyanakyan’s player account at Punta Cana and he proceeded to funnel at least $150,000 to each of the three aforementioned clients. The whistleblower said that’s a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act and should’ve been reported to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) by the gaming venues cage and compliance directors, but those reports didn’t occur.
In the email, the informer added that...
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