The Star’s chief executive, Matt Bekier, branded a damning consultants’ report into the casino giant’s failure to tackle money laundering as “wrong” in an audit committee meeting and refused to quiz the report’s authors, who were sitting outside the room, an inquiry has heard.

Mr Bekier was “hostile” when meeting with KPMG partners a few weeks later to discuss the supposed errors, and then “essentially berated [them] for an entire meeting” over issues that the consultants said were “surprising”, the inquiry was told.