{"id":2692,"date":"2009-03-06T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:58:53","slug":"surfing-former-billabong-boss-leaves-trail-of-gambling-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Former Billabong boss leaves trail of gambling debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE lawyer-turned-surfwear-and-IT-entrepreneur Matthew Perrin racked up $1.7 million in gambling debts last year before his financial world collapsed around him this week.<\/p>\n<p>The debts of the former high-flying Billabong chief executive include $800,000 to the Centrebet boss, Con Kafataris, $300,000 to Flemington bookie Frank Hudson and $160,000 to one of Victoria&#8217;s biggest bookmakers, Alan Eskander.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Perrin has left a $28.2 million trail of unpaid bills to 20 unsecured creditors, including &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessday.com.au\/business\/former-billabong-boss-leaves-trail-of-gambling-debts-20090305-8q21.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE lawyer-turned-surfwear-and-IT-entrepreneur Matthew Perrin racked up $1.7 million in gambling debts last year before his financial world collapsed around him this week. The debts of the former high-flying Billabong chief executive include $800,000 to the Centrebet boss, Con Kafataris, $300,000 to Flemington bookie Frank Hudson and $160,000 to one of Victoria&#8217;s biggest bookmakers, Alan Eskander. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-surf-products-tests","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}