America’s financial crimes watchdog has issued a hefty fine on a casino operator in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), a US territory in the south Pacific.

On Wednesday, the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) slapped a $75m civil penalty against Hong Kong Entertainment (Overseas) Investments, Ltd., which operates the Tinian Dynasty Hotel & Casino, for “willful and egregious violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.”

FinCEN says Tinian Dynasty failed to develop and implement a proper anti-money laundering (AML) program or policies and procedures designed to ensure AML compliance and detect suspicious transactions. The company also failed to conduct any independent tests of its AML systems and failed to train casino personnel to recognize suspicious activity.

FinCEN director Jennifer Shasky Calvery said Tinian Dynasty “didn’t just fail to file a few reports.” The casino operator neglected to file “thousands” of currency transaction reports (CTR) and management “willfully facilitated suspicious transactions and even provided helpful hints for skirting and avoiding the laws in the US and overseas.”