Offshore
Comoros (Mwali / Mohéli) licence.
Mohéli Offshore Authority
Cost-driven operators with mature banking relationships willing to absorb regulator-narrative weakness.
This framework is materially unsettled right now. Read the honest read below before committing a timeline to it.
What the regulator asks for
Year one cost
€10k-€15k all-in
All-in cost is roughly €10,000 to €15,000, among the lowest of any gambling framework, and there is no gaming tax. The headline number is genuinely low, but it understates the real cost of operating. The constrained banking environment means the meaningful expense is the payment and banking workarounds needed to run on a framework with limited external recognition.
Timeline
4-8 weeks
Grant is fast, typically four to eight weeks, reflecting a light-touch review by an emerging regulator. The licence timeline is not the gating factor. Downstream banking and PSP onboarding is where the real time is spent, and that depends on the credibility weight a Mohéli licence carries with each provider.
Gaming tax
Zero gaming tax.
Marketing climate
Light local rules.
The market
The Mohéli Offshore Authority licence is one of the offshore gambling frameworks operating out of the Comoros, alongside Anjouan and the historical Comoros Gambling Authority regime. Mohéli (Mwali) is an emerging, ultra-low-cost option positioned at the bottom of the offshore tier. It is cheap and fast to obtain, but it carries very limited international recognition, and banking access is the practical constraint that decides whether it is usable at all.
How the application runs
Licensing runs through the Mohéli Offshore Authority, and the application itself is light-touch and fast, which is the point of the framework. The real bottleneck is not the licence. It is securing payment and banking infrastructure that will accept a Mohéli-licensed operator, because recognition of the framework outside its own jurisdiction is limited. Treat the licence as the easy part and the banking and PSP onboarding as the work that determines whether you can actually operate.
Ongoing compliance
The published responsible-gambling and AML framework is limited, and that is itself the operating risk. With little formal structure to lean on, an operator serving any market that scrutinises licensing has to self-impose tier-1-equivalent KYC, AML and responsible-gambling controls regardless of what the framework formally requires. The absence of a mature published framework does not remove the obligations that destination markets impose.
What you can and cannot say
Local marketing rules are light. The binding constraints are the destination-market rules wherever players actually are, which apply regardless of where the licence is issued. A light home framework does not change advertising, bonus and responsible-gambling messaging obligations in the markets being served.
The honest read
What it means for your plan
Bottom-tier offshore. Cheap, fast, but banking and credibility are the practical constraints. Use only if you have settled banking infrastructure and are sure your destination-market exposure is low-risk.
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