Malina Casino

History and platform

Malina Casino entered the online casino market in 2016 and has run continuously since, building a large multi-provider games library alongside a crypto-friendly payment model that sits next to conventional cards and e-wallets. The brand is presented across numerous regional and language-specific mirror domains, a common pattern for offshore operators seeking to reach players whose home markets restrict access. Over its lifetime the casino's corporate and licensing arrangements have changed more than once, so the entity a UK player actually contracts with today is not the same as the one named on older reviews. That matters for anyone trying to recover money, because the operator's current identity and place of registration determine where a complaint must be directed and which regulator, if any, has oversight. The sections below set out the ownership trail, the licence position and what players themselves report.

Ownership and corporate structure

Malina Casino is currently operated by Stellar Limited, an offshore company registered under company number 15789 with an address at Hamchako, Mutsamudu, on the Autonomous Island of Anjouan in the Union of Comoros. Stellar Limited sits behind a cluster of sister brands, with public review sources naming BassBet, Casinia, SlotsPalace, Spinanga and Wazamba among them, so a player's experience at Malina is best read in the context of the wider group rather than as an isolated site. Earlier in its history the brand operated under Araxio Development N.V., reflecting the change of operating entity that accompanied the move away from its original Curacao arrangements. The use of an offshore holding company in a low-disclosure jurisdiction means corporate transparency is limited, and UK players should expect that any contact, account or payment relationship is with the Comoros-registered entity rather than a UK-based business.

Licence position and UK status

Malina Casino currently operates under an Anjouan Gaming licence issued through the Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority in the Union of Comoros, with licence reference ALSI-202411077-FI2. Earlier in its history the brand was tied to a Curacao licence, publicly cited as 8048/JAZ2016-064 held through Antillephone N.V. under Araxio Development N.V., which predates the recent Curacao regulatory reforms. Crucially, Malina holds no UK Gambling Commission licence, so it is not regulated for the British market and is not covered by GamStop, the UK's national self-exclusion scheme. The operator's own terms and conditions list the United Kingdom as a Restricted Area, stating that individuals from these countries are barred from registering or depositing funds. In practice this means a UK resident who managed to open and fund an account did so contrary to the site's own rules, while still having no UKGC protection to fall back on. Where a UK player has lost money in these circumstances, the route to redress runs through the operator's internal complaints process and, where appropriate, regulated legal partners, rather than any UK gambling regulator.

Documented regulatory action

In October 2025 the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) named Stellar Ltd and Malina Casino in an enforcement round targeting offshore operators, issuing a formal warning over the provision of unlicensed interactive gambling services to Australian customers without the required authorisation. On 15 October 2025 the ACMA went further and ordered Australian internet providers to block a set of unlicensed sites, a list that included Malina Casino. This is a documented regulatory action against the operator, not a player allegation, and it illustrates the compliance risk attached to the brand: a national regulator has formally identified the operator as offering gambling without a local licence and moved to restrict access to it. While the ACMA action concerns the Australian market specifically, it speaks directly to the operator's pattern of accepting players from jurisdictions where it is not licensed, which is the same structural issue UK players face given the brand's lack of UKGC authorisation.

If you are in the United States

Online gambling in the United States is regulated state by state, and Malina Casino holds no state licence, so no state regulator has authority over your Malina Casino account or over the money Malina Casino is holding. That is the point a bipartisan coalition of 50 state attorneys general put to the Department of Justice in August 2025, asking it to act against offshore platforms operating without proper licensure: enforcement, not a refund scheme for a Malina Casino player. A complaint to your state attorney general or state consumer protection office puts the Malina Casino dispute on record. The money route against Malina Casino is the Anjouan route above, the one attached to the Malina Casino licence.

If you are in the EU

Two EU countries have court-recognised refund routes against an operator like Malina Casino with no domestic licence. Austria’s Supreme Court held in 1 Ob 229/20p that contracts with a provider lacking an Austrian concession are ineffective and the stake is repayable, which is the position an Austrian Malina Casino player would rely on. For a German Malina Casino player the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed in Case C-440/23 (16 April 2026) that a player may claim restitution of stakes lost with an operator like Malina Casino where the games were prohibited at home; that case concerned Malta-licensed operators rather than Malina Casino, and the Federal Court of Justice’s lead decision, I ZR 216/25, is still pending, with a hearing listed for 17 September 2026, so a German Malina Casino claim is not yet settled law. The Netherlands went the other way for a Malina Casino player: on 3 July 2026 the Hoge Raad ruled that an unlicensed operator’s contracts are not automatically void, so a Dutch Malina Casino player has no automatic refund, only case-by-case claims against Malina Casino for mistake or in tort. Elsewhere in the EU we have found no sourced domestic route against Malina Casino, so against Malina Casino the Anjouan route above applies.

If you are in Canada or Australia

From Canada or Australia the route against Malina Casino is the same offshore one, because the domestic bodies say so themselves. The AGCO in Ontario cannot get your money back and only assists with disputes about regulated sites, so not with Malina Casino; iGaming Ontario cannot settle bets, refund wagers or award compensation and has no legal relationship with unregulated operators such as Malina Casino; and the other provinces, which run government monopolies, give no route we could source against Malina Casino. In Australia the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 bans online casinos, ACMA accepts complaints about breaches, and it warns that Australian regulators cannot help if an illegal service withholds your winnings. Against Malina Casino, pursue the Anjouan route above.

If you are in the UK

A UK player has no domestic adjudicator for a Malina Casino dispute. The Gambling Commission says it is illegal to provide gambling to consumers in Great Britain without the operating licence Malina Casino does not hold, wherever in the world the gambling is provided from, and Malina Casino holds no such licence. So GAMSTOP, which covers only GB-licensed operators, never applied to Malina Casino; the ADR requirement in the licence conditions, and IBAS, which adjudicates only against operators registered with it, do not reach Malina Casino; and the Commission has no powers to resolve individual complaints or help consumers get money back from Malina Casino, although it asks for unlicensed sites to be reported to intelligencereports@gamblingcommission.gov.uk. What reaches Malina Casino is the Anjouan route above, the one attached to the Malina Casino licence.