Malta’s gambling regulator has disavowed any connection with a flurry of online gambling sites.
On Friday, the Malta Gaming Authority published a string of notices indicating it has “no connection” with the following websites: Caesarcrown.com, Casino-royal.net, Diamond-777.com, Explosionbet.com, Fortunepub.com, Greatway-casino.net, Lucky-play.net, Play-azart.com, Winner-bet.com and Wpcasino.net.
Winner-bet.com is currently inaccessible, but the other naughty nine domains are going strong. The Malta-based GreatWay is operated by TEM Group Ltd, while Fortunepub.com and Wpcasino.net (Winn-Palace) are owned by the Malta-based Nordic Gaming Group/Bremor Holding.
Play-azart.com and Casino-royal.net claim to be owned by Williambet Anjouan and licensed by the Anjouan Lotteries and Gaming Authority. (The MGA dropped the boom on another Anjouan LGA site – black-white-casino.com – last November.) In case you were wondering, Anjouan is an island in the Indian Ocean that’s part of the Union of the Comoros, which may or may not have been a Duran Duran song.