Malta’s gambling regulator has dropped the ban hammer on one of its online gambling licensees as well as a site apparently pretending to be a licensee.
On Monday, the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) announced that it had “no connection with www.betmod90.com.” The MGA offered no details on its announcement, saying only that any references on the Turkish-facing Betmod90 site to being licensed by the MGA were “false and misleading.”
On Thursday, the MGA announced that it had suspended the remote gaming license of GLX Services Ltd. Here again, the MGA offered no further information on the rationale behind its decision, except to say that its silence was justified so as “not to compromise any investigations that may need to be performed” by the MGA “and/or any other competent authority.”
The MGA did say that sites operating under the MGA/CL2/432/2007 license were to “immediately suspend all gaming operations,” stop registering new customers, suspend all website transactions and to submit all data and documentation requested by the MGA.