Saipan’s casino regulators aren’t making things easy for junket operators looking to steer VIP gamblers to the island’s only casino.

On Wednesday, the Saipan Tribune reported that the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) had returned the applications of some of the 18 junkets looking to do business with Imperial Pacific International’s Best Sunshine Live casino.

The CCC issued its first provisional junket license last month to South Korea’s Big Bang Entertainment and said it welcomed other junket applicants. But CCC exec director Edward Deleon Guerrero now says that some of the applications failed to provide the requested information, leaving the CCC no choice but to “turn them back.” Guerrero said some of these rejected applicants had already resubmitted their applications.

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