Vic: Chips down at Crown as fake $1,000 tokens found

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2009
Vic: Chips down at Crown as fake $1,000 tokens found

MELBOURNE, April 24 AAP - Counterfeit gambling chips have been discovered at Melbourne's
Crown Casino.

The audacious fraud has forced Crown to recall and change the colour of $13.7 million
worth of $1,000 chips, the Herald Sun newspaper reports.

A gaming floor worker raised the alarm as she handled one of the chips in the high-security
counting room on Thursday, the newspaper said.

A search so far has revealed $36,000 worth of "near perfect" fake chips in the casino,
but officials concede they have no idea how long and how widely the fakes have circulated.

"While doing routine checks, one of the officers detected what appeared to be fake
$1,000 chips. As a consequence of that, we recalled all of the $1,000 chips from all of
the tables," casino spokesman Gary O'Neill told the Herald Sun.

"We don't know how long they have been in circulation on the floor."

Police and the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation have been notified.

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