"It was the former "Casino Cancun" that was finally refused a licence to operate as a day/night cruise out of Cancun, Mexico in 1998, after months of "negotiation$" and after a dock had been purpose built there also. The then governor of Quintana Roo, who, it is rumoured, had an important personal stake in the said negotiations, is now doing 25 years in a Mexican prison for drug running."