Mozzartbet exits Malta licence, closes Mozzart.com

• Mozzartbet Group will voluntarily cease operating under its Malta Gaming Authority licence from 1 October 2026, discontinuing the Mozzart.com brand.
• Mozzartbet Malta Limited has held MGA licence MGA/B2C/606/2018 since March 2019.
• The exit comes as the MGA reports rising licensing activity.

Mozzartbet Group will voluntarily cease operating under its Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) licence from 1 October 2026, discontinuing the Mozzart.com brand and its associated affiliate programme.

The move was confirmed in a notice sent to affiliate partners on 27 August, closing out Mozzartbet Malta Limited’s presence under MGA oversight after more than seven years.

Wind-down details

Mozzart.com has operated under Mozzartbet Malta Limited’s MGA licence since March 2019. Final commissions on the affiliate programme will be calculated on activity generated up to and including 30 September, with the brand shutting on 1 October.

Affiliate links tied to Mozzart.com will then be deactivated through the MyAffiliates platform. Licence MGA/B2C/606/2018 remained listed as active on the MGA’s public register at the time of writing.

Mozzartbet Malta Limited, in its notice to affiliate partners, said:

“We regret to inform you that, following a strategic decision by management, Mozzartbet Malta Limited will cease its operations under its MGA licence and discontinue the Mozzart.com brand, including the affiliate programme operated under that brand.”

“This decision follows our determination to focus exclusively on the markets in which we hold local licences and operate under local regulation.”

Malta under scrutiny

The exit lands at a pointed moment for the MGA. The regulator’s own 2025 annual report showed licensing activity climbing even as enforcement penalties fell, a shift the authority has framed as a maturing compliance culture rather than reduced oversight.

That oversight has not slackened everywhere. The MGA has cancelled licences outright where it found serious breaches, and it recently ordered licensees to monitor for suspicious betting activity ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Mozzartbet’s departure is voluntary rather than the result of any such action, but it adds to a wider pattern of operators weighing the cost of an MGA licence against the value it delivers.

Local markets unaffected

Mozzartbet Malta operates from a registered office in St Julian’s, while the wider Mozzartbet Group is headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The business was founded there in 2001 by Serbian entrepreneur Dejan Čakajac and has since grown into one of the Balkans’ leading betting groups, a trajectory that included a 2025 Gaming Corps partnership.

The company confirmed its affiliate programmes in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya and Nigeria will continue unchanged.

Mozzartbet said the decision “relates solely to the Mozzart.com business operated under the MGA licence” and does not affect its other operations, adding that activities in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Nigeria and North Macedonia “continue unchanged.”

Mozzartbet also holds licences in Romania and Ghana, neither of which was addressed in the affiliate notice or the company’s follow-up comment.