Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Central Bank of the Comoros issued a public warning communique on 8 December 2025 against entities falsely claiming financial or institutional status linked to the Union of the Comoros, a category that includes the Anjouan-based claimant bodies marketing gambling licences. This communique continues a documented, decade-long pattern rather than opening a new one: the Central Bank has issued disavowal communiques against Anjouan offshore financial claimants in 2014, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2025, a pattern that has in the past included court actions and an international rogatory commission. An earlier communique, dated 22 May 2023, specifically warned the public against illegal offshore banking activity. Because no licence of any kind has ever been issued to these claimant bodies, there is no licence for a regulator to suspend or revoke; the operative enforcement mechanism instead runs through recurring public disavowal, continued characterisation of claimant activity as unlawful, and, per the historical pattern, court action and international judicial cooperation against the underlying offshore financial scheme.