Gambana Casino Licensing & Legality
The licence Gambana actually holds today
Gambana is licensed by the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros, under licence number ALSI-202511041-FI2. We checked that number in the Anjouan register rather than taking a badge at face value, and the entry matches in every field: the licence holder is JJAM HOLDINGS Ltd., the status is valid, the type is B2C, it was issued on 30 November 2025 and runs to 29 November 2026, and the domain it covers is gambana.com — the operator's own address, named in the register itself. It does not appear on the regulator's suspended or revoked lists.
The operating company is JJAM HOLDINGS Ltd., registration number 000051132, registered at San Victor Street, Orange Walk Town, Belize, with [email protected] as the published contact address.
One point of hygiene: the licensed casino is gambana.com. This site, gambana.net, is an independent review and information site. We hold no gaming licence, take no deposits and run no games, and nothing below describes our own regulatory position.
The licence changed, and the change is the story
Until at least August 2025 the same casino published a completely different footer. It read that Gambana was owned and operated by project X B.V., Curaçao company registration 148814, registered at Korporaalweg 10, Willemstad, Curaçao, and licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Control Board under licence number OGL/2024/1337/0621. It also named a payment agent: River Card Limited, Cyprus company registration HE 151466, in Larnaca.
By January 2026 all of that was gone, replaced by the Belize company and the Anjouan licence above. So within a few months the casino changed its operating company, its jurisdiction and its licensing regulator, and stopped naming a payment agent. None of those things is unusual on its own. Together they are worth knowing, because a licence tells you who is accountable, and here the answer changed.
The direction matters too. Curaçao's Gaming Control Board is the island's direct regulator under the ordinance that replaced the old master-licence system, and an OGL number is issued by that authority rather than by a commercial intermediary. Anjouan is a lighter regime. A reader who saw the older footer and assumed the current site carries the same supervision would be assuming something that stopped being true.
How we know, given that the site is geo-blocked
Readers in most of the countries this site serves cannot open gambana.com at all: the operator returns an “Access Restricted” page instead of the casino. That page is where the country list below comes from. The footer text quoted above is read from archived copies of the operator's own homepage, and the current licence is confirmed directly against the Anjouan register, which anyone can search. We say this rather than presenting the details as if we had simply read them off the live site today.
What an Anjouan licence does and does not give you
A licence means a named licensor exists, that an operating company stands behind the site, and that a register can be checked by anyone. Those are real things, and their absence is the clearest warning sign in this industry. Anjouan also names the covered domain in the register entry, which is better than the common arrangement where only a company is listed and you cannot tell which sites the licence actually covers.
What it does not give you is the dispute machinery people associate with European regulators. There is no equivalent of the UK Gambling Commission's enforcement record, no published register of player complaints, and no funded alternative dispute resolution scheme you can escalate to as a matter of right. If a withdrawal is refused, the operator's own complaints process is the route, and after that the practical options are limited. Our page on Is It Legit? goes through what that means in practice and what the recurring complaints at casinos of this type actually are.
The country list is part of the licence question
The operator's own block page names the places it will not accept: Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, France, Germany, Iran, Monaco, the Netherlands, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yemen.
Read alongside the licence, that list says something concrete. The excluded countries are, for the most part, the ones with their own licensing regimes and their own regulators — Britain, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia. An Anjouan licence does not authorise an operator to serve those markets, so the operator excludes them. If you are in one of them, the question is not whether the bonus is good; it is that you cannot open an account at all, and anyone telling you to use a VPN to get around it is telling you to breach the terms you would be agreeing to.
How to check a licence yourself, in two minutes
The method we used here works on any operator. Find the licence number in the footer — a real one is written out in full, with the licensing body named. Then open the regulator's own register and search for it. Anjouan publishes a searchable register on the anjouangaming.com site, and the entry should show the licence holder, the status, the issue and expiry dates and the covered domains. Check that the domain you are playing on is one of the domains listed: a valid licence held for a different site tells you nothing about this one.
Then look at the enforcement pages. A regulator worth the name publishes suspended and revoked licences separately from the main register, and a licence can look valid in one list while sitting in another. Finally, compare the company name in the register with the company named in the terms and in the footer. Where those three disagree, you have found something worth understanding before you deposit. And note the expiry date: a licence that lapses next month is a different proposition from one with three years to run.
Red flags that actually mean something
- A licence claim with no number. “Licensed and regulated” with nothing to search for is not a claim, it is decoration.
- A number that is not in the regulator's register, or an entry whose company name does not match the one in the terms.
- A register entry that covers other domains but not the one you are on.
- A seal image that is not clickable, or that links to a page on the casino's own site rather than to the regulator.
- An expiry date in the past. Registers keep old entries; a valid-looking row can be an expired licence.
- Terms that name a different brand than the site you are reading — a sign the document was copied.
How the jurisdictions compare
Because “casino licence” is a question people arrive at from many directions, here is the short version of who regulates what and how much it means for a player.
| Jurisdiction | Dispute resolution | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| UK Gambling Commission | Mandatory ADR, published enforcement | The strongest recourse available, and the reason UK players are excluded from offshore sites |
| Malta Gaming Authority | Player-complaint function at the authority | Strong, with a regulator that will look at an individual case |
| Curaçao Gaming Control Board | Complaints route under the new ordinance | Middleweight; direct licensing replaced the old master-licence chain |
| Anjouan | No player-complaint function of the European kind | A verifiable licence and a named company; escalation beyond the operator is limited |
None of this makes a lighter licence a scam, and none of it makes a heavier one a guarantee. It sets what happens when something goes wrong, which is the only moment the difference is felt. Our Review works the offer and the payout terms through on numbers, and the Is It Legit? page takes the trust question on directly.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Gambana licence real?
Yes. Licence ALSI-202511041-FI2 appears in the Anjouan register held by JJAM HOLDINGS Ltd. with status valid, issued 30 November 2025 and expiring 29 November 2026, and the covered domain is listed as gambana.com. It does not appear on the regulator's suspended or revoked lists.
Who owns and operates Gambana?
JJAM HOLDINGS Ltd., registration number 000051132, registered at San Victor Street, Orange Walk Town, Belize, with [email protected] as the published contact. Until at least August 2025 the operator was a different company, project X B.V. of Willemstad, Curaçao.
Did Gambana used to have a Curaçao licence?
It did. The footer in August 2025 cited the Curaçao Gaming Control Board and licence number OGL/2024/1337/0621, together with a Cyprus payment agent. By January 2026 that had been replaced by the Belize company and the Anjouan licence the site carries now.
Will a regulator help me if a withdrawal is refused?
Not in the way a UK or Malta licence would. Anjouan provides a register you can check and a licensor you can name, but no player-complaint function of the European kind. The operator's own complaints process is the route, which is why it is worth reading the terms before depositing rather than after.
Why can I not open the casino from my country?
The operator excludes nineteen countries, among them the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia and the United Arab Emirates. An Anjouan licence does not authorise service in markets that license gambling themselves, so those markets are blocked rather than served.
Does the licence cover gambana.net?
No, and it should not. The register lists gambana.com, the operator's own domain. Gambana.net is this independent review site: we hold no gaming licence, accept no deposits and run no games.