Related: Adelson denies ties to Chinese official in scandal: 'There's a lot of Ngs in Macau' But the extent of what is at stake for Adelson was evident in the form of the Nevada gaming board official monitoring the case from the public gallery.
Several reports have noted that Ng's hotel in Macau, the Fortuna, effectively operated as a brothel.
Adelson is also likely to face difficult questions about his denial that his company had ties to a senior Chinese official, Ng Lap Seng, who was described in court as "a courier" for Sands Macau and a link man to the Chinese government.
The Las Vegas court hearing that ended on Thursday was called to decide where the full case should be heard – the US or Macau.
In some countries or economies (for instance, Macau was included separately because its education system differs from that of mainland China), questionnaires were also distributed to parents to garner information about their perceptions of their children's schools and career prospects.
It added that "the triads became an ongoing presence in the Macau casinos" from the 1980s.
Cheung is named as the guarantor in the documents, headed "Venetian Macau Limited Junket Credit Agreement".
But documents obtained by the IRP show that in 2008 one of the Sands casinos in Macau, the Venetian, extended $32m in credit to Cheung's junket company.
In court, the billionaire said that Jacobs' attempts to put an end to the Macau casinos' use of them came close to "nearly destroying the business".
Macau was included to see how it compares with its biggest competitor, Las Vegas".
The former CEO of Adelson's highly profitable casinos in the Chinese enclave of Macau, Steven Jacobs, is suing because he claims to have been sacked for trying to break links to organised crime groups, the triads, and for attempting to halt alleged influence peddling with Chinese officials.
