Promoting gambling can mean promoting crime. Because of the global over-supply in the casino business, casino-operators compete to attract the wealthy players. So-called “junket operators” are paid to fly in tour groups of high-rollers. The authorities and junket operators are supposed to screen out undesirable players. But the fact is, many of these high-rollers are drug-dealers and the like. A police consultant in Sydney described to us how he had identified major drug-dealers from Thailand, Taiwan and elsewhere among the junket tours.Promoting gambling can mean promoting crime. Because of the global over-supply in the casino business, casino-operators compete to attract the wealthy players. So-called “junket operators” are paid to fly in tour groups of high-rollers. The authorities and junket operators are supposed to screen out undesirable players. But the fact is, many of these high-rollers are drug-dealers and the like. A police consultant in Sydney described to us how he had identified major drug-dealers from Thailand, Taiwan and elsewhere among the junket tours.