Luke Bateman tells inquiry gambling companies supplied him with cocaine and alcohol
Luke Bateman tells inquiry gambling companies supplied him with cocaine and alcohol
Luke Bateman tells inquiry gambling companies supplied him with cocaine and alcohol
Former rugby league player turned TikTok influencer tells parliamentary inquiry his spiralling addiction to gambling cost him about $1m
“I remember when I went to an exclusive event through a betting company, that was hosted in a rental on the canals of the Gold Coast.
“The entire sort of C-suite of the company was there, all the management team, administration, and they were sort of all in a back room doing drugs together, and I was out in this room doing drugs with all of them.
“This is like the CEO, the founders, the VIP managers. And at that stage … I would have been a 23-year-old.
“I put my hand up, I was a willing participant of that, [but] these are men in positions of power with influence who should be looking out for your welfare, and this is the kind of behavior that they are drawing you into, encouraging you into, and coaxing you into and normalising.”**
The betting industry: rotten on the outside and rotting on the inside.