Sweden bars Lufilight Ltd, which runs Hellspin, Ivibet and Slotsgem, from its market
Sweden's gambling regulator has barred Lufilight Ltd, a company with a Kahnawake licence, from offering games in Sweden. Switching its sites to new addresses did not change the authority's view.
A ban with immediate effect
Spelinspektionen, the Swedish Gambling Authority, has barred Lufilight Ltd from providing gambling in Sweden without the licence the law requires. The decision of 28 October 2026, case 26Si2241, applied at once, which the authority said consumer protection demanded. It covers three sites the authority found to be owned and run by the company: hellspin.com, ivibet.com and slotsgem.com. The ban was first covered in Swedish by licensregister.com.
How the sites pointed to Sweden
The case opened on a suspicion that Hellspin, Ivibet and Slotsgem were aimed at Swedish players, and the authority's checks bore that out:
- each site redirected to another domain, ivibettnow.com, hellspin222.com or gemslots1.com
- anyone registering on the mirrors from a Swedish IP address found Sweden and the +46 dialling code already selected
- affiliate sites were marketing the brands in Swedish
Its staff also attempted covert test purchases, none of which was taken through to the end.
New domains, same operation
By the time of a follow-up check, the mirrors first recorded had moved to new domain names. Spelinspektionen treated them as one and the same gambling operation, pointing to the redirects, the brands, the content and layout of the sites and their Swedish adaptations, and concluded that the change of address made no difference to its assessment. Lufilight was invited to comment and sent nothing.
A licence from Kahnawake
According to the authority, the Kahnawake licence register lists Lufilight Ltd as holding a licence in Kahnawake, Canada. Spelinspektionen could identify no organisation number, licence number or address for the company. That licence carries no weight in Sweden, where the Gambling Act (Spellagen, 2018:1138) governs games provided in the country and chapter 3, section 3 requires a licence under that act. Chapter 18 gives the authority its tools: section 23 lets it issue the orders and bans needed to enforce the act, and section 25 lets it make them apply immediately.
Operators that do hold a Swedish licence are listed among the casinos licensed in Sweden; offshore brands appear under casinos with no local licence in Sweden.
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