Two Chinese junket operators and 18 other players involved are banned – forever – from Solaire Casino & Resorts.

Enrique Razon, chairman of Bloomberry Resorts Corp., which operates Solaire, announced during the company’s stockholders meeting that the gaming firm has forever banished junket agents Shushua Gao and Ding Zhise, – who were believed to be the brains of the $81-million money laundering case – as well as 18 other gamers involved in the crime, from the casino.

Kim Wong, the junket operator who previously returned $9.54 million of the stolen Bangladeshi funds to Philippine authorities, was exempted from the casino ban.

Razon defended the casino operator’s decision to spare Wong, telling a Global Gaming Asset Management (GGAM) representative that the man “brings business here.”