How to Verify an Anjouan Gaming License

What an Anjouan gaming license is and who issues it

An Anjouan Internet Gaming Licence is a remote gambling license issued by the Anjouan Gaming Authority, the regulator of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros, a small island group off the east coast of Africa. Operators describe it in different ways on their own pages: some say they are licensed by the Anjouan Gaming licensing authority, others by the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros⁴. Those are the same thing described with different levels of formality.

The license covers online games of chance. One operator's terms describe it as a license "for the purpose of operating and offering real-money Internet-based interactive poker services"⁶, and another simply as being "licensed in Anjouan for the provision of online games of chance"⁷. In practice, sites holding one offer poker, slots, live dealer tables and sports betting under the same seal.

Each license has a number. FortuneJack operates under Anjouan Gaming license ALSI-202411021-FI1⁸, and the license attached to coinpoker.com is Anjouan Internet Gaming License No. ALSI-202412004-FI1². The format is consistent: ALSI, then a year and month, then a sequence, then FI1. If a site shows a license number that does not follow that shape, treat it as a warning sign.

The license is not unlimited. It carries a list of excluded territories where the operator is not supposed to accept players: Australia, Comoros, France, Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA, plus all FATF-blacklisted countries, sanctioned jurisdictions and any territory the Anjouan Offshore Financial Authority deems excluded¹. If you are reading this from Asia, you are generally outside that list, which is exactly why these licenses turn up on sites aimed at players here.

Claims that the regulator is fictitious and how they were reported

In December 2025, ABC News reported that Anjouan regulators and license sellers were operating illegally according to Comoros authorities, with more than 1,300 gambling licenses issued at around 17,000 euros per license per year. The report described the regulators as fictitious entities selling illegitimate licenses.

So the honest position is this: the regulator exists as a functioning website and licensing operation, and the government of the country it sits in has reportedly described it as illegitimate. A valid seal therefore tells you the regulator's own record matches the domain you typed in. It does not tell you the license is recognized by any other government, and it does not tell you the operator will pay you.

One practical consequence is worth knowing before you sign up anywhere. The regulator does not provide direct support services to players. It requires licensed operators to signpost independent support resources instead³. If a dispute goes wrong, there is no player-facing complaints desk at the end of it in the way there is with some other regulators.

How to check a license: registers, compliance reviews and amended conditions

The check itself is quick. Anjouan runs a validation page where you enter a domain and it returns the license record for that domain, including the company name, the license number and an operating status. A page generated on September 26, 2026 for coinpoker.com shows operating status VALID for Precise Interactive Inc under License No. ALSI-202412004-FI1².

Here is the sequence that works:

1. Find the license number and the company name on the site, usually in the footer or the terms and conditions.
2. Go to the Anjouan validation page and enter the exact domain you are playing on, not the brand name.
3. Check that the company name on the validation result matches the company named in the site's terms.
4. Check the operating status. VALID is what you want. Anything else, including a status that is not active, means the license is not currently in good standing.
5. Check the date the validation page was generated. A seal from two years ago proves nothing about today.

That last point matters more than it sounds. The UK Gambling Commission's player guidance makes the same point in a different context: check whether the details of the license, including the activities and the website domain names, match the public register⁹. The principle travels. A license that covers poker does not automatically cover a sportsbook, and a license that names one domain does not cover a sister site on a different address.

Anjouan also amends license conditions over time. In September 2026 the Authority published a notice amending license conditions covering beneficial ownership, ADR and B2B disclosure requirements. Those amendments are about who really owns the operator, how disputes are handled and what business-to-business relationships have to be disclosed. They are not player-facing changes, but they are the kind of thing that separates a regulator doing actual supervision from a seal-selling operation, and they are worth knowing about when you read a site claiming to be fully compliant.

The license terms also spell out the limits. Disputes, claims or complaints from players situated in excluded territories fall entirely outside the regulatory scope and will not be entertained¹. If you are in the UK, the US, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia or Comoros, and you play on an Anjouan-licensed site anyway, you have no route to the regulator at all. From most of Asia you are outside that list, but the operator may still have its own country restrictions in its terms, so read those separately.

Operators holding Anjouan licenses, including those that have moved to them

A growing number of crypto-facing operators hold or are moving to Anjouan licenses. The pattern is usually a move away from a Curaçao license, which has become more expensive and more administratively demanding as Curaçao has tightened its rules.

FortuneJack is already there. Its site states it is operated by PlayWave SRL under the Anjouan Gaming license⁸. CoinPoker holds an Anjouan Internet Gaming License and describes it as ensuring the site meets strict regulatory standards¹⁰, with its Japanese-language pages naming the Anjouan Gaming Authority directly¹¹. Its terms state that the company is authorized to operate remote gambling services under a valid gaming license issued by the Anjouan Gaming licensing authority, covering all real-money poker games, poker tournaments, casino games, betting services and related gameplay services on the platform¹².

Other operators describe themselves as licensed by the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros, which is the same authority under a longer name. Lucky Red Casino uses that phrasing in its terms⁵, and Live Casino House does the same¹³. CoinPoker's offshore casino page says it is licensed by the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan¹⁴.

Not everyone has moved; several well-known crypto sites still hold Curaçao licenses.

If you are comparing the two, the practical difference for a player in Asia is mostly about where you can complain and what the regulator will do about it. There is a separate comparison worth reading if you are weighing them up: Anjouan vs Curacao Gambling Licence.

Suspensions and crackdowns involving Anjouan-licensed operators

Licenses get pulled, and not only Anjouan ones. Following a Show Cause Notice, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission suspended Einrai Ltd.'s Client Provider Authorization effective March 3, 2026, requiring its online gaming sites to cease offering interactive gaming. That is a useful reminder that a seal you checked last year may not be worth anything today, and it is why the date on a validation page matters as much as the status.

Anjouan's own license conditions include responsible gambling requirements. The license register states that operators must provide functional Responsible Gaming tools, including self-exclusion and deposit limit capabilities². If you are signing up somewhere and cannot find a self-exclusion option or a deposit limit in your account settings, that is a concrete sign the operator is not meeting the conditions attached to its license, whatever the footer says.

The regulator also runs quarterly compliance reviews. Its April 2026 review covered supervisory actions, compliance rates and areas of ongoing regulatory focus, and the January to March 2026 review involved 12 supervisory assessments and 3 formal compliance notices. Those numbers are small relative to roughly 1,500 active licenses, which is the fairest way to read them: the regulator is doing some supervision, but not much per license.

For context on how much enforcement varies across the region, Cambodia's year-long crackdown between July 2025 and July 31, 2026 saw 751 suspected scam locations investigated, 605 shut, 20 casino licenses revoked and 29 suspended, with 21,666 foreigners deported and 4,147 suspects sent to court. That is what serious enforcement looks like in volume. Anjouan's three compliance notices in a quarter is a different scale entirely.

If a site you use loses its license, the practical question is what happens to your balance. There is a general guide to that here: What Happens When a Gambling License Is Suspended or Revoked.

What to do if the check does not add up

If the validation page returns a status other than VALID, or the company name does not match the site's terms, or the domain does not match the one you are playing on, stop and treat the seal as unverified. There is a page on that specific situation: What an Anjouan License Marked Not Active Means.

If the seal looks fine but something else is off, the wider checks are the same ones you would run on any operator. The UK Gambling Commission's player guidance is a reasonable checklist even outside the UK: check whether the license details, including activities and domain names, match the public register⁹. For a broader walkthrough, see How to Check if a Casino, Betting Site or Lottery Is Licensed.

Two things are worth doing regardless of what the seal says. First, check whether the operator accepts players from your country at all, since excluded territories and operator-level restrictions are different lists. Second, check whether the regulator you are relying on will actually take your complaint. Anjouan will not take complaints from players in excluded territories¹, and it does not run a direct player support service³. If you are outside those territories, you may still have a route, but it runs through the operator first.

Finally, remember what a license is and is not. It is a record that a regulator has licensed a company to offer gambling on a particular domain. It is not a guarantee of payout, fairness or legality where you live. Playing on offshore casino websites is illegal in some Asian countries, and players have been prosecuted, so check your own jurisdiction before you deposit anything.