Online Casinos in Jordan

Nothing Is Licensed, and the Police Call Gambling Unlawful

Jordan licenses no gambling, and the clearest statement of the position comes from the Public Security Directorate. In an account published by the official news agency Petra on 10 May 2016, the Directorate's Security Media Department describes a raid on a house in central Amman in which fourteen people were arrested, most of them with prior criminal records, while they were engaged in games of gambling that are contrary to the law.

A ministry has used the same framing. On 12 September 2021 Petra reported that anti-begging teams of the Ministry of Social Development had apprehended a number of juveniles playing a gambling game in an alley in the Capital Governorate, and that the Ministry said the juveniles were apprehended in accordance with the law, handed over for the requisite legal action and brought before the competent juvenile judge.

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On 7 October 2025 Petra reported a meeting of the Azm Party parliamentary bloc, chaired by MP Ayman Abu Hunayya, on the risks of electronic gambling applications and their effects on family security and the national economy. It was attended by the Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Sami Smeirat, and by the chair of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Lara Al-Khatib. Members of the bloc expressed support for all national efforts aimed at combating electronic gambling and safeguarding social and economic security, and the Minister said the Ministry is developing advanced monitoring and technical tools within its Hakeem project.

The same report records the other half of the picture, and this page records it too: the chair of the meeting pointed to the importance of putting in place an integrated legislative and regulatory framework to control these applications and limit their exploitation. A call for a framework is a sign that one is not yet in place.

It is worth being exact about what this page's reading of the market rests on, so that a reader can judge it. Jordan licenses no gambling of any kind. The Public Security Directorate describes gambling as contrary to the law, a ministry describes its action against gambling as taken in accordance with the law, and a minister and the chair of the telecommunications regulator treat electronic gambling as something to be combated. It does not rest on a Jordanian provision addressing online play, because no Jordanian provision addressing gambling was sourced, so none is quoted. No article and no penalty is quoted here.

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Nothing. Jordan licenses no gambling of any kind, so there is no lawful route for a casino operator and none is listed here. A 2016 ministerial meeting pointed to the importance of putting in place an integrated legislative and regulatory framework to control gambling applications — and a call for a framework is a sign that one is not yet in place.