Six regulators, six answers to the same question: has this ever done anything?

By RAW Casino Reviews · Published 2026-08-24 · A follow-up to our report on Curacao and Anjouan, read against the regulators directly, not against a casino's own claim

A licence badge answers who an operator is supposed to answer to. It does not say whether that authority has ever done anything. We went looking for the one fact that actually settles that, a named, dated public enforcement record, at six regulators used by the crypto casino industry. The range runs from a 133-case public register in the UK to a country with no gambling regulator at all. We are not turning this into a single trust score: for most of these jurisdictions there is no citable, dated corruption case to weigh, and inventing a score would just be the unsourced opinion this site exists to replace. What follows is what each regulator has actually published, in its own words.

The comparison, in one table

Every figure below was read directly from the regulator's own published register, page or statement, on 24 August 2026. Where we could confirm a case ourselves, it is named. Where we could not, we say so rather than repeat a number from somewhere else.

The two that actually publish at scale

The UK Gambling Commission's public register lists 133 regulatory actions, searchable by company. Reading it directly rather than trusting a summary turned up cases the secondary coverage of this topic gets wrong: one widely repeated figure attributes a 3.3 million pound fine to a company called TGP Europe, but the Commission's own public statements name a different penalty against a different company, Celton Manx Limited, discounted to 3,937,500 pounds from an original 5,625,000. Recent entries include QuinnBet (Gibraltar) Limited, a payment in lieu of a financial penalty dated 20 August 2026, and Holland Park Leisure Limited, 31 July 2026.

The Isle of Man's Gambling Supervision Commission publishes fewer total cases, thirteen since February 2024, but with the same structure: named companies, exact dates, exact figures. King Gaming Limited and Dalmine Limited both had licences suspended pending review on 24 April 2024 and cancelled outright three months later, on 24 July 2024. Celton Manx Limited's penalty, the same company named above under the UK register, also appears here at 3,937,500 pounds dated 3 July 2025, discounted thirty percent from an original 5,625,000. Two individuals, Phua Cheng Wan and Seow Gim Shen, were separately banned from any role in the jurisdiction's gambling sector in 2025.

Confirmed, but not exhaustively checked

Malta's Gaming Authority organises its enforcement register by year and names companies directly. We confirmed two cases live against the register itself: Goldwin Ltd, licence cancelled 13 March 2025 after an earlier suspension, and Dimsacon Limited, whose Recognition Notice was revoked 21 May 2025. The register holds more than these two; we are naming only what we personally re-checked rather than repeating a fuller count from elsewhere.

Kahnawake's Gaming Commission, based in Mohawk territory in Quebec, publishes individually dated resolutions on its own site. True North's Client Provider Authorisation was revoked in August 2025. Einrai Ltd's was revoked effective 2 April 2026, after which the domains it operated were no longer licensed by the Commission at all. Kahnawake's licence itself has no published minimum capital requirement, which is a real gap next to Malta or the Isle of Man, but its enforcement record is not thin.

Nothing to enforce, by two very different routes

Costa Rica has no gambling regulator. Operators there register a municipal data-processing permit through one of eighty-four cantons, each with its own council, provided they serve only foreign markets and route no funds through Costa Rican banks. That permit is not a gaming licence and nobody is checking gaming conduct, because no authority holds that job. It is the cleanest structural fact in this whole comparison: an operator based in Costa Rica has no licence to ever lose.

The Philippines reached a similar absence of ongoing enforcement from the opposite direction. Republic Act No. 12312, the Anti-POGO Act of 2025, signed 23 October 2025, states plainly that "offshore gaming operations in the Philippines are hereby banned and declared unlawful," and sets penalties up to twelve years' imprisonment and fifty million pesos on a third offence. Rather than license offshore gaming and then police it case by case, the Philippines removed the category entirely. There is nothing left to enforce because there is nothing left that is legal to hold a licence for.

Tobique sits at a third kind of absence: too new to judge. The Tobique Gaming Commission was established under a law enacted 13 October 2023 and has no public enforcement history in either direction, positive or negative, simply because not enough time has passed.

Why this is not a single ranking

We considered publishing a one-to-eight score and did not. A jurisdiction with three total licensees and zero enforcement actions is not obviously safer than one with a thousand licensees and two, and we have not measured enough of the denominator, how many operators each regulator actually oversees, to make that comparison honestly for every jurisdiction above. What we can state is narrower and, we think, more useful: whether a regulator makes it possible to check, at all, whether it has ever done anything. Four of the six above do, with names and dates. One has nothing to check because there is no regulator. One has nothing to check because the entire category it would regulate is now illegal. That distinction, checkable versus not, is the one worth carrying into any decision about where an operator is licensed, more than any single trust number we could have manufactured instead.

Sources

UK Gambling Commission, public register of regulatory actions, gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/regulatory-actions (read 2026-08-24). Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission, public statements, isleofmangsc.com/gambling/enforcement/public-statements (read 2026-08-24). Malta Gaming Authority, enforcement register, mga.org.mt/licensee-hub/enforcement-register (read 2026-08-24). Kahnawake Gaming Commission, gamingcommission.ca (read 2026-08-24). Anjouan Gaming Authority, anjouangaming.com (read 2026-08-24, full detail in our companion report). Republic Act No. 12312, lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2025/ra_12312_2025.html (read 2026-08-24). Costa Rica data- processing permit structure per multiple converging igaming-law compliance summaries (read 2026-08-24), not a single primary government source, since the claim is an absence rather than a published rule. Tobique Gaming Act, per Tobique First Nation and TGC Management Co.'s own announcement via dlagglobal.com (read 2026-08-24).