This page is deliberately not an instruction for obtaining an Anjouan licence. This part of the Comoros archipelago entered the vocabulary of gambling intermediaries through one promise — that a cheap and fast licence can be bought there — and it is precisely around that promise that the gravest warnings in our practice now cluster: in December 2025 an international investigation was published into fake corporate licences circulating in Anjouan's name. So we start not with a procedure but with the risk: what is being sold on the marketing site, what the press reports, why the regime could not be confirmed at state level, and what all of this means under Georgian law. Where a fact is unverified, it will be labelled as such: to be confirmed with the Comorian state structures.
What Is Being Sold: the Claims on the Marketing Site
The only active source of information about Anjouan licensing is a marketing site — anjouangaming.com. According to its claims, internet-gaming licensing runs in two formats: a B2C Operator licence and a B2B Service Provider licence; the process has four stages — submission, review, due diligence and issuance. The published pricing for the B2C format: EUR 17,828 for issuance, the same EUR 17,828 for annual renewal, and EUR 500 per domain, with all amounts non-refundable. Each of these figures is reproduced here only so that you know what money is being asked for — not as evidence that a real, verifiable licence is what the money buys: these are the site's own statements, not a state document.
Red Flags: the Fake-Licence Investigation and Verification Failures
Three independent signals, each cited as press reporting, point in the same direction. First, the ABC News investigation of December 2025 describes fake corporate licences circulating in Anjouan's name, including documents issued in the name of a purported Anjouan Gaming Control Board. Second, in June 2026 Softswiss recorded that the licence-verification links by which these licences had been confirmed were returning errors — the pages had gone dark. Third, the July 2025 Tradepass.tax material characterises the Anjouan scheme as widely considered a scam. None of these is a court judgment, and none is presented here as one — but each is a separate, independent source, and when three independent signals sound around a single jurisdiction, that is no longer noise; it is a specific object of scrutiny.
Why No Structural Check Confirms the Regime
When we tried to verify the Anjouan regime against primary sources, three structural gaps emerged. First, the genuine government domain of the Comorian leadership is .gouv.km — and no gambling regulator page could be found on it. Second, the official gazette text of the Computer Gaming Licensing Act cited in sources — the very document that would give the regime its legal basis — is not reachable. Third, different sources name the issuing authority differently, which indicates that the sources are not pointing at one and the same state organ. Taken together, the three mean the following: a licence that can be found neither on a regulator's official page nor in the text of a statute nor under a single consistent authority name cannot be verified — and an unverifiable licence is worthless for every market purpose.
The Georgian Layer: an Unverifiable Licence Changes Nothing
Now the main Georgian consequence, which is independent of whether the Anjouan document in circulation is genuine or fake: under Georgian law it changes nothing. Under article 5, part 1 of the Law of Georgia on gambling, organising games and supplying them into Georgia requires a Georgian permit, and under article 11, part 2 that permit is issued only to an entrepreneur registered in Georgia — an Anjouan paper has neither substituting nor exculpatory force here. The civil side is even starker: under articles 951 and 952 of the Civil Code, claims arising from a game exist only where the game is state-permitted — in a dispute with a platform whose licence cannot even be verified, the no-claim risk stands twice over. The rest of the common layer applies unchanged: articles 3, 11 and 12 of the AML law if a Georgian entity is in the chain; margin taxation under article 80, part 7 of the Tax Code with the article 81 rates for an individual organiser; article 8 for the player; article 29(b) and the Financial Monitoring Service for reporting; and the article 36-1 regime for system-electronic supply into Georgia.
Frequently Asked Questions
Four questions dominate the Anjouan topic, and every answer ends with the verification principle.
Is the Anjouan licence fake?
We cannot say verified-yes or verified-no — and that is exactly the problem. There are the marketing site's claims, and against them a press investigation into fake documents and open criticism of the scheme. Until a licence is confirmed directly with the Comorian state structures, it is unverified, and a business plan built on an unverified document is a risk plan.
Is the pricing on the marketing site official?
No. The amounts published on anjouangaming.com — EUR 17,828 for issuance, the same amount annually, EUR 500 per domain — are the site's own statements, not a state tariff. An official fee exists only where a state organ publishes it.
If the licence turns out to be fake, what happens to me under Georgian law?
Georgian requirements do not depend on the document's authenticity: organising or supplying into Georgia requires a permit under article 5, part 1, and the permit goes only to a registered entrepreneur under article 11, part 2. A fake licence neither adds Georgian risk relative to the permit nor removes it — it simply compounds the fraud exposure and the no-claim risk under articles 951 and 952.
How do I actually verify one?
Only by direct inquiry with the Comorian state structures — through the official channels of the leadership, on the .gouv.km domain. No payment of any amount should be made before that confirmation: that is the central practical conclusion of this page.
How We Help on Legal.ge
Legal.ge works cases in this category from verification outward: we establish whether a state organ that issues the document exists at all, check links and registers with the press-documented failures in view, and where a structure has already been built — we assess its Georgian legal position: the permit question under articles 5 and 11, the tax and reporting obligations, and the civil risks within the frame of articles 951 and 952. If a foreign licence features in your plan, we first test its reality and only then discuss continuing the plan. Contact us to assess any such proposal before money moves.