Peru's Mincetur blocks 50 more unauthorised gambling platforms, bringing its total to 86

Peru has blocked another 50 online gambling platforms that were taking Peruvian customers without authorisation. In a press release dated Friday 2 October 2026, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) said its Directorate General of Casino Games and Slot Machines (DGJCMT) had blocked 50 platforms offering "juegos a distancia y apuestas deportivas" to users in Peru "without the respective authorisation" (our translation). The category covers both remote casino-type games of chance and sports betting, so this was not only a sportsbook crackdown.

According to the ministry, that brings the total blocked so far to 86 platforms. It also has a target list of 157 platforms it plans to block this year. Gestión, which reported the announcement the same day, put the number still to be dealt with at 71.

How the blocking works

In Peru the permit is called an authorisation. Under Ley N° 31557, the law that regulates remote gaming and remote sports betting, an operator needs an operating authorisation (autorización de explotación) from Mincetur before offering these products to Peruvian users. The same law obliges the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) to block web pages, IP addresses, URLs and apps of platforms not authorised by Mincetur, at the ministry's request. Mincetur says the latest blocks were carried out in coordination with the MTC.

Blocking access is only one part of the approach. The ministry says its online monitoring has also led to the removal of game content and payment methods linked to sites operating without authorisation, which it says has directly hit the operating and financial capacity of unauthorised operators ("operadores no autorizados"). Mincetur claims these actions have reduced illegal online supply by "more than 50%".

To find targets, the DGJCMT keeps a base of about 2,000 domains compiled from lists of sites that authorities in other countries consider illegal or unauthorised.

Enforcement offline as well

The same announcement covered land-based enforcement. Mincetur staff, the National Police (PNP) and the Public Prosecutor's Office recently seized betting equipment at a clandestine sports betting venue in the district of Chilca, in the Junín region.

The ministry's running tally to date:

• 17 sports betting shops and 10 slot halls ordered closed;
• 5,195 inspections of slot and casino halls;
• 4,572 inspections of online platforms and betting shops.

What it means for players

Peru's model is to authorise remote gambling operators and block what sits outside that system, and these figures show the blocking side running alongside inspections of physical venues. For someone in Peru, the practical point is that a site being reachable is not proof it is authorised: according to Gestión, 71 platforms on this year's target list were still to be blocked.

Mincetur is also asking the public to report clandestine betting shops, casinos and slot halls.

Other regulators are running similar campaigns. Our earlier coverage includes Brazil's tally of 66,482 blocked betting domains, Lithuania's block on Polymarket and Nigerian states declaring Stake.com unlicensed.

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