Star also told investors it had received overtures from its Chinese partners – Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited and Far East Consortium International Limited – to pick up a 50 per cent stake in the company’s Queen’s Wharf casino in Brisbane. More than 8000 jobs are on the line, with the company running out of time and money to keep its casinos open. The financial crime watchdog says the court should disregard casino operator’s threat that it would collapse under the weight of a $400 million fine. The casino operator has been negotiating with its lenders over changes to covenants on borrowings of more than $400 million. The NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) also announced it had given Bally's the necessary approvals to become a substantial shareholder of The Star. Combined the two companies will own more than half of the embattled casino operator. American casino giant Bally’s Corporation and vi.nhacdj.com.vn the billionaire Mathieson family are waiting on probity approvals to take control of Star, which has faced extreme financial pressure over the past 18 months.