“Suspended” on Peru’s Gambling Register: Dates Are Available for Five Platforms, but Suspension Decisions Remain Unpublished

File photo: San Isidro, Lima, Peru, 13 August 2013. Used only as geographical context for this report about Peru’s gambling register; the buildings shown are not identified as the regulator, the suspended platforms or a raid location. Copyright: Protontorniyo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source photograph reproduced without alteration; the website displays a cropped thumbnail.

The remote betting and online gaming authorisation register maintained by Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR) is publicly accessible. In records read live from that page on October 21, 2026, at least five platforms were not listed as “valid”, but as temporarily suspended with specific end dates:

• bitelbet.pe (authorisation holder: CIGI S.A.C.): suspended until November 15, 2026
• bacanbet.pe (Grupo Distra S.A.C.): suspended until November 28, 2026
• betkeko.pe (Jackpots Online S.A.C.): suspended until November 24, 2026
• playzonbet.com (On Entertainment S.A.C.): suspended until November 30, 2026
• inbet.pe (Inbet Games S.A.C.): sports betting suspended until January 9, 2027, and remote gaming suspended until November 1, 2026

The domain names, authorisation holders and end dates above come from an archived scrape of the official register taken that day, not from second-hand reporting.

The Missing Page: The Suspension Decisions

Temporary suspension has a basis in Peruvian law. Law No. 31557 includes “temporary suspension of activities” among both corrective and precautionary measures; failing to replenish a guarantee promptly after it has been drawn on may also trigger suspension. The question is: under which provision, and which director’s resolution (Resolución Directoral), was each of these five platforms suspended?

This article again searched MINCETUR’s online gaming communications page, El Peruano’s legal-document search and public reporting. Most 2026 entries on the communications page concern circulars on reporting formats, audits and use of systems; no announcement of suspension decisions concerning the brands above was found. As of publication, neither the reasons for suspension nor the original decisions had been located. This must be stated clearly, rather than filled in with speculation.

For now, therefore, only the registration status itself can be confirmed: these authorisations are shown on the register as temporarily suspended, accompanied by date fields relating to reinstatement or expiry. Suspension does not mean permanent revocation. The registration process generally allows reinstatement after remediation, but without the decision text, the remediation conditions cannot be described.

Land-Based Enforcement Around the Same Week

Separately from the register, MINCETUR’s office published an enforcement report on October 11: three clandestine premises were discovered and 32 slot machines seized in Chiclayo, Lambayeque region; in Leoncio Prado province, Huánuco region, 12 slot machines and 41 sets of computer equipment used for unauthorised online sports betting were seized. The release said the operations also found slot machines aimed at minors, a practice separately prohibited under Peruvian law.

The annual figures in the release were 19 illegal sports-betting premises and 14 clandestine slot-machine halls ordered closed since the start of 2026, a total of 33. The laws cited include Law No. 27153, governing casinos and slot machines; Law No. 31557, governing remote gaming and remote sports betting; and Law No. 29149, penalising slot-machine activities aimed at minors.

The “suspensions” in the online register and the land-based closures are not the same type of procedure and should not be presented as successive chapters of the same case. Together, they demonstrate something else: Peruvian regulators are using registration status and on-site closures as two parallel tools.

Sources

• MINCETUR authorisation-holder register: https://apuestasdeportivas.mincetur.gob.pe/Titulares_autorizacion.html
• Local register scrape dated October 21, 2026: src/peru_mincetur_2026-10-21.csv
• MINCETUR news (closures in Chiclayo and Huánuco, October 11, 2026): https://www.gob.pe/institucion/mincetur/noticias/1454892-golpe-al-juego-ilegal-mincetur-clausura-establecimientos-clandestinos-de-apuestas-deportivas-y-tragamonedas-en-chiclayo-y-huanuco
• Online gaming communications page (no suspension RD announcement found): https://apuestasdeportivas.mincetur.gob.pe/comunicados_online.html
• Note: A further search still did not obtain the original Resolución Directoral decisions suspending the five platforms. The specific grounds for suspension have not been made public or could not be found. The article states only the statuses and dates shown on the register.