Is LeoVegas legal in Malaysia?
No. LeoVegas has no Malaysian licence, because Malaysia licenses no online casino. Its company, LeoVegas Gaming PLC, holds UK Gambling Commission licence 039198-R-319450-029 for customers in Great Britain, and the UK address it lists is leovegas.co.uk. The leovegas.com address many people outside the UK land on is marked inactive on that register.
LeoVegas in Malaysia: the position on 28 October 2026
LeoVegas, for a player in Malaysia
What applies if you use LeoVegas, or a site using its name, from Malaysia.
- Malaysian licence
- None. Malaysia issues no online casino licence
- Legal to play from Malaysia
- No. Online gambling is an offence in Peninsular Malaysia under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, according to the Court of Appeal [5]
- Malaysian regulator
- None for online casinos, so no local complaints route
- If a withdrawal is refused
- No Malaysian scheme can help; the foreign regulator protects its own customers
- Sites using the name in ringgit
- No licence we checked covers them; treat them with suspicion
- If you have paid a copy site
- Call the National Scam Response Centre on 997
- Licensed elsewhere
- UK Gambling Commission, Great Britain only (details below)
The answer in plain words
LeoVegas is a long-established, regulated operator in the places that license it. For Great Britain, the same company has held a casino licence without a break since 1 November 2014 [2]. Malaysia is not one of those places. Malaysia has no licence for online casinos, and the Court of Appeal held in October 2023 that online gambling is an offence in Peninsular Malaysia under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953 [5]. A British licence does not create an exception, and it does not make LeoVegas legal to use from here.
Where LeoVegas is actually licensed
The licence below is real, and it is the reason LeoVegas is a regulated business. It is issued for customers in Great Britain, which is why it changes nothing for a player in Malaysia.
LeoVegas Gaming PLC
No trading names recorded. Head office in Sliema, Malta.
UK remote casino licence039198-R-319450-029
The address question
The UK register does something useful that most people never look at: it lists every web address a licence covers and says whether each one is active. For LeoVegas Gaming PLC it lists eleven addresses [4].
| Domain | UK register status |
|---|---|
| leovegas.co.uk | Active |
| betmgm.co.uk | Active |
| 21.co.uk | Active |
| betuk.com | Active |
| pinkcasino.co.uk | Active |
| slotboss.co.uk | Active |
| leovegas.com | Inactive |
| www.leovegas.com | Inactive |
| bingogodz.com | Inactive |
| bingoloopy.com | Inactive |
| bingos.co.uk | Inactive |
Five of the six active addresses end in .co.uk, and the sixth, betuk.com, carries "UK" in its name. That is what a British licence looks like: it is built around British customers. The .com address is the one a reader outside the UK is most likely to find through a search, and on the UK register it is inactive. So the licence number you may see quoted alongside the LeoVegas name does not, on the register's own terms, cover that address.
We have not checked what other licences, if any, apply to leovegas.com. Whatever they are, they would not be Malaysian licences, because Malaysia does not issue any.
Six brands, one company
The table also shows that LeoVegas is not only LeoVegas. BetMGM's UK site, 21.co.uk, BetUK, Pink Casino and Slot Boss all sit under the same British licence. If you see any of these names on a site aimed at Malaysia, the same reasoning applies: the licence behind them is a British one, for Great Britain.
The register records no trading names for LeoVegas Gaming PLC [3]. That is not a missing licence; the brands simply appear as domain names instead. We mention it because a copied site may claim a trading name the register does not show.
If a LeoVegas site is asking you to deposit
A site using the LeoVegas name, aimed at Malaysian players and taking ringgit, should make you stop. Watch for a sign-up agent on WhatsApp or Telegram, a local bank account or e-wallet to pay into, and a bonus with a wagering requirement that grows when you ask to withdraw. Before you pay any account number, check it on the police Semak Mule portal; if you have already paid and think it is a scam, call the National Scam Response Centre on 997. The full checklist is in our guide to spotting an illegal or scam casino site.
What we did not check
We did not open an account, deposit, play or withdraw, and we did not test whether LeoVegas accepts players from Malaysia. The licence facts come from the UK register on 19 and 27 October 2026; the legal position comes from published reporting of the 2023 Court of Appeal ruling, explained in our guide to online gambling law in Malaysia. Nothing here is legal advice.
Sources
- UK Gambling Commission public register, search results for "LeoVegas". gamblingcommission.gov.uk. Checked 19 Oct 2026.
- LeoVegas Gaming PLC, licence summary, account 39198. gamblingcommission.gov.uk. Checked 19 and 27 Oct 2026.
- LeoVegas Gaming PLC, trading names. gamblingcommission.gov.uk. Checked 19 Oct 2026.
- LeoVegas Gaming PLC, domain names. gamblingcommission.gov.uk. Checked 27 Oct 2026.
- "Online gambling an offence under existing law, rules court", Free Malaysia Today, 18 Oct 2023. freemalaysiatoday.com. Checked 28 Oct 2026.
Questions readers ask
Is LeoVegas licensed in Malaysia?
No. Malaysia does not issue online casino licences, so LeoVegas holds none here. The licence we checked is a UK Gambling Commission licence, 039198-R-319450-029, held by LeoVegas Gaming PLC for customers in Great Britain since 1 November 2014.
Does the LeoVegas UK licence cover leovegas.com?
No. On 27 October 2026 the UK register listed leovegas.co.uk as active for LeoVegas Gaming PLC, while leovegas.com and www.leovegas.com were listed as inactive. The UK licence is tied to the addresses it lists as active.
Is BetMGM the same company as LeoVegas?
On the UK register, betmgm.co.uk is an active domain under LeoVegas Gaming PLC, together with leovegas.co.uk, 21.co.uk, betuk.com, pinkcasino.co.uk and slotboss.co.uk. They share one British licence. None of them is licensed in Malaysia.
Is it safe to use LeoVegas from Malaysia if the company is regulated?
Regulation in Great Britain protects customers in Great Britain. From Malaysia you would be outside what the licence is for, with no Malaysian regulator to complain to, and online gambling is an offence in Peninsular Malaysia under the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, according to the Court of Appeal.