October 1, 2022 — 6.00am
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In political circles, the take-no-prisoners approach that ClubsNSW adopts towards anybody or anything that threatens its poker machine business has served the industry so well that diplomacy has become a lost art. But the peak industry group’s slurs against a terminally ill former employee last week have provoked pushback from a surprising quarter.
Former casino mogul James Packer says he is appalled by the way ClubsNSW has treated the compliance auditor who blew the whistle on the industry’s non-compliance with money laundering laws, accusing the lobby group of “ruthless unethical behaviour”.
ClubsNSW is suing Troy Stolz for breaching the confidentiality clause of his contract and separately launched a private prosecution against him for contempt of court. It said last week that Stolz had made himself out to be a saint when he was actually motivated by money. Stolz has inoperable cancer and is not expected to live longer than a year.
Packer said in a written statement to the Herald that he was “absolutely appalled” ClubsNSW was pursuing Stolz through the courts when it was aware he was battling terminal cancer.
“It beggars belief that ClubsNSW ... [hasn’t] yet worked out that this ruthless unethical behaviour is damaging the reputation of the wider clubs industry,” Packer said.
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