Who owns Maria Casino?
As of : Our data links Maria Casino to Kindred Group, which FDJ United, the listed French lottery group, has owned since October 2024. This owner link is rated "reported", not verified. The mariacasino.com footer, read in October 2026, names Rol Malta Ltd, a company in Sliema, Malta, with Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/B2C/1031/2023.
| Ultimate owner | FDJ United (listed (Euronext Paris: FDJU); the French State held about 72% before the November 2019 IPO and keeps about 21%) |
|---|---|
| Owner chain | Kindred Group plc → FDJ United |
| Operating company | Rol Malta Ltd, Malta |
| Licences | MGA (MGA/B2C/1031/2023) |
| Products | Casino, Bingo |
| Website | mariacasino.com |
| Also runs as | mariacasino.se, mariacasino.dk, mariacasino.ee |
| Companies of the other sites | Tussilago Limited (mariacasino.se) · Sweden — Spelinspektionen 25Si969 Unibet (Denmark) Limited (mariacasino.dk) · Denmark — Spillemyndigheden LEXBYTE DIGITAL LIMITED (mariacasino.ee) · Estonia — EMTA HKL000418 · Estonia — EMTA HKL000273 · Estonia — EMTA HKT000019 · Estonia — EMTA HKT000018 |
| Sister casinos | 16 |
| Fines and actions | Maria Casino’s own company: 0 · whole FDJ United group: 14 |
| Owner proof | reported |
| Last checked | 22 Oct 2026 |
In numbers
- Rol Malta Ltd also runs 3 other gambling brands under the same company and licence.
- FDJ United owns 17 casino and betting brands (38 websites) in our data.
- 14 fines and regulator actions against the owner since 2019, about €37 million in total (converted to euros).
Finnish gambling licence
FDJ United (Unibet) has applied for a Finnish gambling licence (May 2026). In our data the company belongs to the owner group Kindred Group plc. The source does not name the brand Maria Casino. Licensed gambling can start on 1 July 2027 at the earliest. (source: Yle Urheilu)
Finland licence tracker: who applied and who owns them → · What changes for players on 1 July 2027 →
Who is behind it
Our record links Maria Casino to Kindred Group with a "reported" rating, not a verified one. Kindred is based in Malta and began as Unibet in 1997. It has belonged to FDJ United since October 2024; FDJ paid about €2.5bn.
We have no date for when Maria Casino joined Kindred.
Licence and what it means for you
The mariacasino.com footer names Rol Malta Ltd of Sliema, Malta, with MGA licence MGA/B2C/1031/2023, issued on 26 January 2024 and valid until 25 January 2034. The same company runs Kolikkopelit and Unibet's Finnish site. An MGA licence is a strong EU licence, but it does not replace a licence from your own country. Maria Casino left the UK in 2019, and Kindred has since pulled out of unlicensed markets such as Norway and Poland. Separate sites run at mariacasino.se, mariacasino.dk and mariacasino.ee.
Licence records
What each licence means, and self-exclusion
Sister sites
Maria Casino's own country versions for Sweden, Denmark and Estonia are its closest relatives. Within Kindred, Unibet, Storspiller and Bingo.com were named with it in the same Norwegian case. Otto Casino and Kolikkopelit are other casino brands in the group. FDJ United has 16 sister brands in our data. A self-exclusion at Maria Casino may not cover them.
16 sister casinos
Same owner often means the same terms, the same support team and the same payout rules. A self-exclusion at one brand may not cover its sister sites.
FDJfdj.fr
ZEturfzeturf.fr
Unibet FRunibet.fr
Unibetunibet.co.uk
32Red32red.com
Bingo.comuk.bingo.com
Storspelarestorspelare.se
Kolikkopelitkolikkopelit.com
Casinohuonecasinohuone.com
Vlad Cazinovladcazino.ro
Otto Casinoottocasino.se- Storspiller (Norway)storspiller.com closed
32Rosu32rosu.ro
Unibet Games BEunibetgames.be
ZEbet NLzebet.nl- ZEturf NLzeturf.nl
Does self-exclusion at Maria Casino cover its sister sites? · How national self-exclusion schemes work
Fines and regulator actions
No action in our data names Rol Malta Ltd. Before it, the site ran under Trannel International Ltd, which has two cases from before FDJ owned Kindred. In September 2022 Norway's Lotteritilsynet set a daily coercive fine, NOK 1,198,250 in our data, because Trannel kept offering Maria Casino, Unibet, Storspiller and Bingo.com to Norwegians without a licence. The fine was later paused, and Kindred left Norway in 2023. In August 2019 the Dutch Kansspelautoriteit fined Trannel €470,000 for serving Dutch players before that market was licensed. The wider group has 14 actions in our data.
All 14 fines and regulator actions, with sources
None of these 14 names Maria Casino’s own company; they concern other companies of the FDJ United group. The company column names who was fined.
Fines from the 40 regulators, prosecutors and courts we track, online gambling only; fines against land-based casinos are out of scope. How we count fines.
| Date | Company | Regulator / court | Amount | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-02 | Optdeck Service Ltd (Unibet NL) | Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands) | EUR 4,000,000 | Duty-of-care failures Jul 2022 to Jul 2024: late income checks after big losses, weak pop-up interventions (date = press report). source |
| 2025-10-22 | Platinum Gaming Limited (unibet.co.uk, uk.bingo.com) | UK Gambling Commission | GBP 10,000,000 | Repeat AML and social responsibility failures (second action after 2023), with a required independent audit. source |
| 2025-09-02 | Optdeck Service Ltd (Unibet) | Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands) | EUR 450,000 | Penalty order (EUR 75,000 per week, max EUR 450,000; amount is the maximum, not a paid fine) for offering banned bet types such as corners and yellow cards, Oct 2022 to May 2025. source |
| 2025-05-05 | Spooniker Ltd | Spelinspektionen (Sweden) | SEK 10,000,000 | Warning and SEK 10m sanction fee for anti-money-laundering failures: weak customer due diligence on five high-depositing customers (May 2023 to April 2024), found in a follow-up to the November 2022 AML decision. Decision dated 5 May 2025 (case 24Si1186). Förvaltningsrätten i Linköping rejected Spooniker's appeal on 2 July 2026 (case 4340-25). source |
| 2025-05 | BetChoice Corporation Pty Ltd (Unibet) | ACMA (Australia) | AUD 1,014,120 | First ACMA financial penalty under the BetStop self-exclusion rules: failed to close 954 accounts of registered customers. source |
| 2024-12-18 | Optdeck Service Ltd (Unibet NL) | Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands) | EUR 400,000 | Let players registered in the CRUKS self-exclusion register gamble. source |
| 2023-03-23 | 32Red Limited | UK Gambling Commission | GBP 4,195,655 | Social-responsibility and AML failings; official warning. source |
| 2023-03-23 | Platinum Gaming Limited (Unibet UK) | UK Gambling Commission | GBP 2,937,599 | Self-excluded players able to gamble; social-responsibility and AML failings. source |
| 2023-03-22 | Downs Racing, L.P. and Unibet Interactive, Inc. | USA Pennsylvania — PGCB | USD 7,500 | Consent agreement (joint): did not act on a player's 90-day cool-off request; the player kept gambling online for 21 more days. source |
| 2022-11-17 | Spooniker Ltd | Spelinspektionen (Sweden) | SEK 10,900,000 | Warning and fine (Kindred's former Swedish licensee) for anti-money-laundering failures. source |
| 2022-09-14 | Trannel International Ltd | Norway — Lotteritilsynet | NOK 1,198,250 | Daily coercive fine imposed for continuing to offer Unibet, Maria Casino, Storspiller and Bingo.com to Norwegians without a licence; later paused, and Kindred withdrew from Norway in 2023. source |
| 2022-08-25 | Unibet ON Inc. | AGCO (Ontario) | CAD 48,000 | Order of monetary penalty for public ads promoting 'generous welcome offers' in May 2022. source |
| 2020-03 | Spooniker Ltd | Spelinspektionen (Sweden) | SEK 100,000,000 | Unlawful bonuses and prize draws in 2019; fine cut to SEK 50m (2021) and then SEK 30m on appeal. source |
| 2019-08-19 | Trannel International Ltd (unibet.eu) | Kansspelautoriteit (Netherlands) | EUR 470,000 | Offered online gambling to Dutch players before the market was licensed (date = press report). source |
About FDJ United
France's national lottery operator, which took over Kindred Group (Unibet, 32Red) in October 2024 for about €2.5bn and now trades as FDJ United. The online betting and gaming arm is being consolidated, with Parions Sport online merging onto the Unibet platform in 2026.
Headquarters: France · Founded: 1976 · Ownership: listed (Euronext Paris: FDJU); the French State held about 72% before the November 2019 IPO and keeps about 21%
How we know, and what we could not confirm
How we know: Footer (read 2026-10-22) says mariacasino.com is run by Rol Malta ltd (Sliema, Malta) under MGA licence MGA/B2C/1031/2023, issued 26 Jan 2024 and valid to 25 Jan 2034; the same company runs Kolikkopelit and Unibet's Finnish site. Earlier the site ran under Trannel International Ltd. Closed in the UK in 2019.
- The owner link comes from press reports; we have not confirmed it in a register or in the brand’s own terms.
- We have no company registration number for Rol Malta Ltd.
FDJ United sister sites, fines and sources →
Ratings elsewhere
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Ratings from other websites, with their source. We do not copy their reviews, and they do not change our facts.
Often compared
- Are Maria Casino and Unibet owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by FDJ United.
- Are Bingo.com (UK, uk.bingo.com) and Maria Casino owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by FDJ United.
- Are FDJ and Maria Casino owned by the same company? Yes, both are owned by FDJ United.
Questions and answers
Who owns Maria Casino?
Our data links it to Kindred Group, owned by FDJ United. The link is reported, not verified.
Is Maria Casino licensed?
Yes. Its footer names Malta Gaming Authority licence MGA/B2C/1031/2023, held by Rol Malta Ltd and valid until 25 January 2034.
Is Maria Casino available in the UK?
No. It closed in the UK in 2019.
Is Maria Casino related to Unibet?
Yes. Both are Kindred brands, and Trannel, the company that earlier ran Maria Casino, was fined in Norway over both.
Is Maria Casino legit?
Maria Casino is run by Rol Malta Ltd, which holds a licence from MGA for B2C licence. Check the licence in the MGA licence register. Its owner is FDJ United, a listed company. Fines and regulator actions against Maria Casino’s own company: 0; against the whole FDJ United group: 14. Sister sites with the same owner: 16. Guide: How to check a casino. We do not rate sites. A licence from your country’s regulator is the main protection.
What are Maria Casino’s sister sites?
Maria Casino has 16 sister casinos with the same owner, FDJ United: FDJ, ZEturf, Unibet FR, Unibet, 32Red and 11 more. Full list: all FDJ United sister sites.
Sources
- https://casinobeats.com/2019/04/30/kindred-shifts-uk-focus-through-maria-casino-closure/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Group
- https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/regulation/kindred-withdraw-from-norway/
- https://igamingbusiness.com/legal-compliance/norwegian-regulator-to-impose-compulsory-fine-on-kindred-subsidiary
- https://www.mariacasino.com/
- https://fi.unibet.com/
- https://www.kolikkopelit.com/
- https://www.casinohuone.com/
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