Posted
April 23, 2020 04: 55: 58
Troy Stolz, the whistleblower who exposed a widespread lack of anti-money laundering compliance around poker machines in registered clubs, is being sued by ClubsNSW.
Key points:
- Andrew Wilkie read from a ClubsNSW board paper in parliament earlier this year
- ClubsNSW alleges that Troy Stolz, in acting as a source for Mr Wilkie, breached a confidentiality agreement he signed
- Mr Stolz filed a $2 million claim against ClubsNSW in March alleging bullying, sham contracting, underpayment and defamation
Mr Stolz is accused of giving a confidential ClubsNSW board paper to Independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
That paper, written in May 2019, outlined ClubsNSW’s own concerns about poor levels of compliance within its member clubs.
The document stated: “Current levels of AML/CTF (anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing) compliance are at best at 5-10 per cent for the approximately 770 clubs in NSW that are full reporting entities.”
In February, Mr Wilkie told parliament that this board paper was evidence that up to 95 per cent of clubs in NSW were “operating illegally”.
When he requested leave to table the document in parli