## Regulating bodies DGJCMT: General Bureau of Casino Games and Slot Machines under the Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of MINCETUR. It is the administrative authority in charge, at the national level, of regulating, authorizing, revoking, supervising and sanctioning the operation of remote gaming and sports betting. SUNAT: National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration. SBS: Banking Superintendency and Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators. UIF-PERU (the Peruvian Financial Intelligence Division) INDECOPI: National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property. ## Supervision by Regulator Daily economic reporting ## Transaction Monitoring ## Compliance and Operational Audits and Inspections Technical Audit Report to be submitted by a Certified Laboratory, every two years from the issuance of a licence. MINCETUR can perform the planned or unannounced inspections to the technological platforms or may entrust such work to the Certification Laboratories The regulator can also verify the information obtained from inspection actions through service providers. ## Enforcement against licensed operators The law provides for the following administrative enforcement measures: Administrative fines ## Licence Suspensions Licence revocation Permanent or temporary disqualification ## Blacklisting IP Blocking of offshore/unlicensed operators The Supreme Decree contains an exhaustive list of “TABLE OF INFRINGEMENTS AND PENALTIES”, EXHIBIT II, classifying infringements to the regulatory framework as minor, serious or very serious. Depending on the infringement sanctions may include fines of up to 200 UIT (approximately EUR 275,000), as well as admonitions, cancellation of authorization or disqualifications. ## Typical triggers for enforcement against unlicensed operators Local presence, the onboarding of local players, local advertising, local sponsorship, accepting payments from within the jurisdiction. ## Enforcement action taken against unlicensed operators Unlicensed operators may face administrative fines of up to 200 UIT, approximately EUR 275,000, alongside website blocking and restrictions on payment methods. Under the Third Final Complementary Provision of Law No. 31557, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC), at MINCETUR's request, is responsible for blocking unauthorised websites, IP addresses, URLs and applications. MINCETUR may also request competent public or private entities to block payment methods associated with unauthorised operators, pursuant to Article 6(h) of the Law. Enforcement activity increased during 2026. On 30 September 2026, MINCETUR notified 37 Directorial Resolutions ordering the blocking of unauthorised platforms. According to its announcement of 2 October 2026, 50 platforms were blocked in the latest enforcement round, bringing the total to 86 during 2026, against 157 platforms identified for blocking. MINCETUR also reported the removal of gaming content and payment methods associated with unauthorised websites. In addition to administrative sanctions, Article 243-C of the Criminal Code, as amended by Law No. 31806, criminalises the unauthorised operation or exploitation of gambling activities, providing for imprisonment of one to four years, a fine of 365 day-fines and disqualification. However, no specific criminal enforcement proceedings against unauthorised online operators have been identified. MINCETUR also monitors registered Linked Service Providers to ensure that they provide services exclusively to authorised operators. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in the revocation of their registration, preventing licensed operators from continuing to use their services on their platforms.
Peru · Question 10 of 11
Peru Gambling — Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?
Mixed · Probable · Expert approved · 8 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope · Back to full Peru report →
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| Jurisdiction | Peru (PE) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Probable |
| Review status | Expert approved · 8 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope |
| Last collected | 1 Nov 2026 |
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## Regulating bodies DGJCMT: General Bureau of Casino Games and Slot Machines under the Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of MINCETUR. It is the administrative authority in charge, at the national level, of regulating, authorizing, revoking, supervising and sanctioning the operation of rem…
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Mincetur ordered publication, via Resolución Ministerial N.° 382-2026-MINCETUR, of a draft Decreto Supremo amending the Reglamento of Ley N.° 31557 (approved as D.S. N.° 005-2023-MINCETUR). Opened to a fifteen-calendar-day public consultation beginning 21 October 2026, the draft proposes to cut the maximum fine for infracciones muy graves from 200 UIT to 70 UIT and to clarify operator obligations. The decree has not been adopted; the current 200 UIT ceiling remains in force pending the outcome of the consultation, expected to close around 5 November 2026. The scale of the proposed reduction, roughly two-thirds off the current ceiling for the most serious breach category, marks a substantive shift in the sanctions framework even while it stays at the proposal stage, and reads as a move toward calibrated rather than purely punitive enforcement. No enforcement events (fines issued, licences suspended or revoked) were identified; the development is confined to the proposed instrument itself.
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MINCETUR's DGJCMT blocked 50 additional unlicensed remote-gambling and sports-betting platforms on 2 October 2026, bringing the cumulative 2026 total to 86 of 157 identified unlicensed targets. The blocking authority operates under Ley 31557 and its implementing decree, DS 005-2023-MINCETUR, the enabling statutory stack that continues unchanged. Sanctions available against an operator found offering regulated activity without MINCETUR authorisation include fines of up to 200 UIT, cancellation of authorisation, disqualification from holding future authorisation, and criminal referral carrying one to four years' imprisonment, giving the regulator both an administrative and a criminal route against unauthorised operators. Running alongside the blocking campaign, Resolución SBS N.° 01015-2026 (effective 8 April 2026) extended the SBS's SPLAFT anti-money-laundering obligations to MINCETUR-licensed remote-gaming and remote-sports-betting operators for the first time, repealing the 2016 rule that had applied only to physical casinos and slot machines, and layering a 24-hour no-threshold suspicious-transaction reporting duty and a USD 2,500 cash-exchange registration threshold onto the licensed population. Read together, the blocking campaign targets market access for the unauthorised and the SBS resolution tightens the compliance burden for the authorised, giving a licensed operator two separate and simultaneous fronts of regulatory attention to track as at October 2026.
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Mincetur's Direccion General de Juegos de Casino y Maquinas Tragamonedas blocked 50 additional unauthorised remote-gaming and sports-betting platforms on 2 October 2026, bringing cumulative 2026 blocks to 86 of 157 platforms identified for blocking under Ley N 31557. The same campaign has closed 17 physical betting shops and 10 slot-machine halls, with 5,195 casino and slot-machine inspections and 4,572 platform and betting-shop inspections conducted to date. This is a staged, list-driven enforcement programme rather than an episodic action: more than half of the 157 identified targets have now been addressed. The formal Mincetur resolution underlying the 2 October action was not independently retrieved this cycle; the finding rests on corroborating press reporting from El Peruano and Gestion rather than the primary instrument, a gap recorded here rather than smoothed over. The practical consequence for an unlicensed operator is a materially rising probability of being blocked within the 2026 enforcement window; for a licensed operator, the campaign reduces unauthorised competitive pressure as the remaining target list is worked through.
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MINCETUR blocked thirty-six unauthorised remote gaming and sports-betting platforms on 21 July 2026, an action confirmed in the official gazette and paired with a public appeal for citizens to report clandestine sports-betting, casino or slot-machine establishments. A February 2026 gazette notice recorded closure of a separate unauthorised betting venue and set out MINCETUR's stated aim to inspect 100% of remote gaming and betting activity nationwide during 2026. Trade-press reporting corroborates a sustained enforcement pattern beneath these headline actions: through 2025, seven illegal casinos or slot parlours and thirteen unauthorised betting locations were closed and 557 illegal slot machines destroyed, with operations continuing in 2026 across Puno, Lambayeque, Cajamarca, Lima and La Libertad. The enabling statute, Law No. 31557, together with its implementing Supreme Decree No. 005-2023-MINCETUR, treats unlicensed operation as an offence in itself rather than a licence-condition breach, which grounds the Ministry of Transport and Communications' website, IP and app-blocking function as a direct enforcement mechanism. Article 7.6's restriction of licensed operators to a MINCETUR-notified domain on one of five permitted top-level domains is the operative trigger identifying which platforms are blockable. The enabling Act carries durable standing; the associated decrees and inspection targets are administrative instruments subject to change at the Ministry's discretion.
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MINCETUR enforcement intensified materially in 2026. A July 2026 action, reported at Probable confidence from a T1 MINCETUR source, blocked 36 unauthorised remote-gaming and sports-betting platforms and seized 39 slot machines, with 14 betting premises also actioned — the largest single enforcement event recorded this cycle. MINCETUR has separately stated a 2026 priority of 100 percent inspection coverage of remote sports-betting and remote-gaming activity nationally with real-time monitoring of licensees, though this posture claim rests on a single T4 secondary source at Probable confidence. Under Peru's civil-law enforcement theory, unlicensed operation is an offence under the primary Ley 31557 licensing stack itself, a durable statutory basis, rather than a secondary licence-breach theory; no enforcement action against a licensed operator was identified this cycle. The overall enforcement posture is assessed amber, reflecting materially increased intensity against the unregulated fringe relative to the prior baseline, not a deterioration in licensed operators' standing.
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MINCETUR intensified enforcement against the unlicensed sector this cycle. In a single reported action on 21 July 2026, it blocked 36 unauthorised remote-gaming and sports-betting platforms and seized 39 slot machines, the largest single enforcement action in the recent record, drawn from a T4 source. This built on a broader 2026 pattern, corroborated at T3, of closures across Puno, Lambayeque, Cajamarca, Lima and La Libertad, where MINCETUR shut seven unlicensed remote-betting operations and two slot parlours. Separately, the SBS opened a fifteen-day public comment period in November 2025 on a draft resolution extending AML/CFT obligated-entity status to land-based casinos and slot halls, mirroring the framework SBS Resolution 03622-2025 already applies to online operators; UIF-Perú has yet to complete review of feedback, so this instrument remains fragile pending finalisation. None of these developments amends the primary licensing statute, Law 31557, which remains durable and unchanged. Taken together, they describe rising enforcement capacity and a widening compliance perimeter rather than a change in the rules governing who may hold a licence.
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Peru's enforcement architecture rests on the statutory licensing stack established by Ley N 31557 and its implementing Reglamento (DS 005-2023-MINCETUR), with MINCETUR as the primary licensing and sanctioning authority. This cycle's material development is SBS Resolucion N 01015-2026, which replaces the 2016 casino AML rule and, per tier-3 reporting, extends LA/FT obliged-entity status to remote gaming and betting platforms for the first time; reported sanctioning authority for breaches sits with MINCETUR rather than SBS itself. This is a fragile regulator-circular instrument layered onto the durable enabling statute, and the claim is Probable rather than Confirmed pending tier-1 corroboration. A separate Uncertain claim holds that DS 005-2023-MINCETUR article 38.d prohibits licensed operators from processing cryptocurrency, sourced only to a tier-4 operator guide and unverified against the Reglamento text this cycle. No enforcement events were located this cycle beyond the supervisory-perimeter extension itself; no explicit safe-harbour doctrine was identified in the available claims.
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MINCETUR's enforcement posture tightened materially this cycle, with a formal mandate for one hundred percent national inspection coverage of remote gaming and betting operations across 2026. The regulator reports this intensified inspection regime, together with existing authorisation and technical-oversight layers, has produced a reduction of roughly forty percent in illegal digital gambling supply. This figure and the inspection mandate itself are probable-tier findings sourced from a G3 Newswire interview with DGJCMT head Yuri Guerra, corroborated by a further industry outlet, rather than confirmed by a primary regulatory publication; the underlying enforcement action carries no separate durability rating, as it describes an operational programme rather than a specific legal instrument. Read against the registered-supplier ban regime, which permanently bars suppliers found servicing illegal platforms from the licensed market, the enforcement architecture functions through layered legal, technological, financial and operational levers rather than a single blocking mechanism, consistent with the civil-law pattern of enforcement resting on the statutory licensing stack rather than a secondary breach theory.