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IAG FEB 2020年2月 亞博匯 14 亞博匯早報 BREAKFAST BRIEFS SINGAPORE COURT DISMISSES BLOOMBERRY PETITION TO VACATE WRONGFUL TERMINATION RULING 新加坡高等法院拒絕撤銷 B L O O M B E R R Y RESORTS非法解僱WILLIAMWEIDNER公司的判決 THE Singapore High Court has dismissed a petition from Bloomberry Resorts Corporation subsidiaries Sureste Properties Inc. (SPI) and Bloomberry Resorts & Hotels Inc. (BRHI) to vacate and oppose a 2016 arbitration tribunal finding that the termination of a Management Services Agreement withGlobal Gaming Asset Management (GGAM) Philippines LLC was wrongful. The original finding relates to the termination of the Management Services Agreement, originally signed in 2011, just six months after the March 2013 opening of Manila’s Solaire Resort & Casino. Bloomberry alleged at the time that GGAM Philippines had failed to deliver on the terms of the agreement and more specifically a promise to bring high-rollers to the property. It also cited concerns over the casino’s design and layout. After the Singapore courts subsequently found the termination wrongful, the Philippines IR operator filed a petition to vacate the Partial Award alleging “fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations by GGAM” by signing the agreement to manage Solaire while two of its executives, including Weidner, were being investigated by US authorities for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Weidner was President and COO of Las Vegas Sands until parting ways in 2009 following a falling out with the company’s Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson. In a filing, Bloomberry said the petition to vacate had now been dismissed due to the Court finding that the FCPA investigations “do not constitute strong and cogent evidence of any species of fraud” raised by SPI and BRHI against GGAM. 新加坡 高等法院駁回了Bloomberry Resorts Corporation旗下Sur- este Properties Inc. (SPI)及Bloomberry Resorts & Hotels Inc. (BRHI)的請求，拒絕撤銷一項於2016年由仲裁法庭作出的判決。該判 決指Bloombery非法終止早前與Global Gaming Asset Management (GGAM) Philippines LLC的管理協議。 原本的判決是關於一份於2011年簽訂的協議，在馬尼拉的晨麗渡 假村及娛樂場開幕僅六個月後，於2013年3月就被終止。 Bloomberry指控GGAM Philippines沒有兌現協議內容，特別是沒 有按承諾為該物業帶來高額玩家。Bloomberry同時亦就賭場的設計及 佈局表示憂慮。 新加坡法院裁定該終止協議的行為違反法律。Bloombery聲請推 翻這項部分賠償，並指控GGAM「蓄意隱瞞及提供虛假陳述」，在後者的 兩名包括Weidner在內的管理層被美國當局就涉嫌違反Foreign Cor- rupt Practices Act(反海外腐敗法)作出調查的情況下，簽署晨麗的管 理協議。Weidner曾出任拉斯維加斯金沙的總裁兼首席營運總裁，直至 2009年與該公司的主席及首席行政總裁蕭登·艾德森由於w爭拗而分 道揚鑣。 在一份公告中，Bloomberry說推翻裁決的聲請已被駁回，這是由 於法庭認為關於FCPA的調查，就SPI及BRHI對GGAM的指控而言「並不 構成強烈及有說服力的證據指向任何形式的欺詐」。