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A VCGLR spokesperson said it would be inappropriate to comment while the royal commission into Crown was underway. But the Victorian royal commission's terms of reference do not include a direction to examine the failings of the state-based regulator, something the former inspectors would like to see. Inspectors from the Victorian regulator, who were the eyes and ears in the casino, say they were not only discouraged from looking at money laundering, but actively blocked. Years earlier, in 2004, the state government had given the casino the power to approve the same junket operators that it would end up making hundreds of millions of dollars from.