Sweden's Spelinspektionen Bans Duel.com Operator Immortal Snail LLC

Sweden's gambling regulator Spelinspektionen banned Immortal Snail LLC, the operating company of duel.com, from providing gambling in Sweden without a licence, in a decision announced on 28 October 2026.

The Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen) titled its news item "Immortal Snail LLC får förbud att rikta spel mot Sverige", roughly "Immortal Snail LLC is banned from directing gambling at Sweden". The authority says the company has no licence to provide gambling in the country. A separate ban on Lufilight Ltd appeared on the regulator's news list the same day.

What Spelinspektionen decided

The regulator prohibited Immortal Snail LLC from providing gambling in Sweden without the necessary licence. The authority says it publishes the grounds for its bans on its website and maintains a register covering all of them.

Duel launched in July 2025, according to Wikipedia. Neither a Nevis registration nor an Anjouan licence gives a company the right to offer gambling to Swedish players.

Lufilight Ltd banned the same day

The Immortal Snail decision was not the only one. Spelinspektionen's news list shows a ban on Lufilight Ltd dated 28 October 2026. According to e-play.pl and iGamingExpert, that case covered Ivibet, Hellspin and SlotsGem. E-play.pl reports that the regulator found those sites redirecting visitors to mirror domains.

The operator's response and the IP-block dispute

According to FairGambling, which attributes the material to the decision as quoted by SBC News, Immortal Snail replied that Swedish is an international language and that Sweden should be the party to block the site. The same reports say Spelinspektionen's check found that an IP block against Sweden "has not been implemented" and that Swedish-language marketing continued.

That exchange points to a recurring question for offshore brands: whether geo-blocking and language targeting are treated as evidence that a site is aimed at Swedish players. The regulator's own announcement frames the ban around the absence of a licence. Whether Duel has since blocked Swedish traffic or changed its marketing is, according to FairGambling, still open.

Context for operators, affiliates and payment providers

The October decisions follow a run of Swedish enforcement actions. Gamingo previously covered Spelinspektionen's ban on three operators in May 2025, the ban on GG.bet operator ASG 360 in March 2025 and the March 2024 round of bans on unlicensed operators. The authority's wider supervision work is outlined in its enhanced supervision of operators, and Sweden's rulebook is also moving on consumer protection, as in the proposal to ban gambling with credit.

For affiliates and payment partners that handle Swedish traffic, the practical step is to check promoted brands against the regulator's ban register, which lists the grounds for each decision. Licensed Swedish operators gain nothing from tolerating unlicensed competitors in their market, and the regulator has shown it will publish named bans in batches.

Spelinspektionen has not announced a further step against either company in the news items listed so far.

Status reviewed on 30 October 2026. Ban details come from Spelinspektionen's news item of 28 October 2026, and company responses and brand links come from the secondary outlets named above. More regulation news and EMEA coverage.