Overview
- Resorts World, which filed individual civil complaints in Clark County on Wednesday, seeks $2,629,500 plus interest and fees from Norberto Ortega Sánchez, Sergio Berti, Sergio Zárate and José Flores.
- The casino says the men signed gaming markers, which are casino credit slips similar to checks, and that banks later rejected them for insufficient funds.
- The defendants have 21 days after formal service to answer in court, or they risk default judgments that can trigger wage or account levies and liens on property.
- The largest claim targets Zárate at about $1 million, followed by Ortega Sánchez at $625,000, with Berti and Flores at $500,000 each, and small statutory damages added in each case.
- The push follows February’s detention of journalist Enrique “Quique” Felman over a related debt and comes as Nevada regulators last year fined Resorts World $10 million for weak anti‑laundering controls linked to junket intermediaries, with witnesses naming Maximiliano Palermo in organizing trips while his father, Juan Carlos Palermo, has pleaded guilty in a separate U.S. money‑laundering case.