Mozzartbet exits Malta iGaming market as group pivots to domestic licences
Mozzartbet Group is leaving Malta's online gambling market on October 1, ceasing its MGA-licensed operations to focus on locally regulated markets.
Mozzartbet Group is pulling out of Malta's online gambling market, a move that signals a strategic pivot away from the MGA licence model toward domestically regulated jurisdictions.
The group will cease operations under its Malta Gaming Authority licence on October 1, shutting down the Mozzart.com brand and its affiliate programme.
Mozzart.com has operated under Mozzartbet Malta Limited's MGA licence since March 2019. The broader group, headquartered in Belgrade and founded in 2001 by Dejan Čakajac, continues to run operations in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and North Macedonia.
The departure is the latest example of an international operator choosing domestic regulation over Malta's EU-wide passport. For Malta's iGaming sector, which markets itself as a global hub, each exit chips away at the value proposition of the MGA licence.
Separately, the Malta Gaming Authority published a list of 11 websites that it says are falsely referencing the regulator without holding a valid licence. The MGA warned that any reference to the Authority or its licences by those sites is false and misleading.
The list includes domains such as royalgame-canada.com, totobet.net, and playex.io, among others. The regulator identified the URLs during August 2026.
For local industry observers, the combination of a licence surrender and a crackdown on unauthorised references underscores the MGA's dual challenge: retaining legitimate operators while policing misuse of its brand.