Curaçao “master licences” such as #365/JAZ: what they were, and why they no longer count

How the old system worked

For about 30 years, Curaçao licensed online gambling under a 1993 law on offshore games of hazard. The government granted a small number of companies a licence by national decree. These became known as master licence holders^[2][8]. In 2018 the Curaçao Chronicle named four of them, each with a number ending in “/JAZ”^[8]:

A master licence holder did not usually run casinos itself. It sold “sublicences”, contracts that let another company run its own gambling site under the master’s licence. A sublicence certificate filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows how this looked. Gaming Services Provider N.V., “Holder of Master License #365/JAZ”, confirmed that a company held “a sublicense with our company under License no 365/JAZ” for one named website^[2]. The same certificate said that if the master licence were revoked, “the sub-license will automatically be null and void”.

How the master licences ended

The master licences ended one by one, and then the system itself was closed:

• 15 November 2023. Curaçao began issuing licences directly under a new online gaming policy^[9].
• 31 March, then 30 April 2024. Sublicensees had to register with the regulator by this deadline, first set for 31 March and then extended to 30 April^[10][11].
• 18 August 2024. Gaming Services Provider told clients its “Master License (365JAZ) will not be extended and will expire on August 18th, 2024”. Any use of its licence after that date, it warned, “will be fraudulent and not endorsed by the Curaçao government”^[1].
• 1 October 2024. Cyberluck’s licence 1668/JAZ lapsed, according to the trustee in its bankruptcy^[12].
• 24 December 2024. The National Ordinance on Games of Chance took effect. It repealed the 1993 law and turned the Gaming Control Board into the Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA)^[13][3].
• 15 October 2025. The old “Orange Seal” expired, “effectively bringing the former sublicense system to an end”, in the CGA’s words^[4].

So a 2026 claim to operate “under the master license” of any “/JAZ” number points to a licence that no longer exists, under a law that has been repealed.

Where we still found master licence claims

Old master licence wording is still common on sites marketed to Malaysians. In our checks on 28 October 2026:

• BK8’s Malaysian FAQ said it operates “under the master license of Gaming Services Provider N.V. #365/JAZ”, at the same Willemstad address the master licensee used^[5][2]. BK8 separately holds a valid Anjouan licence.
• Maxim88’s site files cited the same 365/JAZ master licence^[6].
• 96M’s settings cited “Gaming Services Provider, N.V. #255/HF5”. That number does not match any of the four master licence numbers reported, and nothing by that name appears on Curaçao’s current registers^[7][8][9].

Our Maxim88 licence check, which traces its Curaçao claim, sets out what else the registers show.

How to check a Curaçao claim today

Under the new system the licence belongs to a company, and it covers only the domains the CGA has approved for that company^[14]. To check a claim:

1. Find the company and number. New licence numbers look like OGL/2024/… or CGA/2025/…, not “/JAZ”.
2. Search the CGA register. It lists companies, not brands or domains, with a status for each^[15][9].
3. Click the site’s seal. It must open a page on cert.cga.cw that names the exact domain you are on. The CGA says a certificate showing a different domain means the site “should be considered unauthorized or fraudulent”^[16].

One caution for late 2026. On 7 October 2026 the CGA shut down its licensing portal after a data breach, and said the digital seal “will be affected” until a replacement is introduced^[17][18]. Until then, the published register is the more dependable check. Our guide to checking an offshore casino licence covers the other regulators too.

What a valid Curaçao licence does not do

A current CGA licence is real regulation in Curaçao. It is not permission to offer gambling in Malaysia, where no online casino is licensed and players were fined in 2026 under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953^[19][20]. Our guide to Malaysian online gambling law explains why.