The second of Australia’s two major casino operators has now been found to have sacrificed basic moral principles and perhaps flouted the law in the pursuit of money.

According to an independent inquiry by Adam Bell, SC, released on Tuesday, Star Entertainment, like Crown Resorts before it, allowed itself to become a haven for money laundering and organised crime.

Star’s behaviour, described in the report for the NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority, is arguably worse than the failures exposed by Patricia Bergin’s inquiry into Crown last year in Victoria.

As ILGA chairman Philip Crawford said, Star has shown “institutional arrogance” and has “thrown the moral compass out the window”.