Overview
- The Interior Ministry said the 20 licenses issued to Compañía Operadora Clíe were mandated by an administrative court and that no casino has opened under them.
- The licenses were formalized on February 1, 2024 with 15‑year terms that run to 2039, and they were signed by Leonardo Manuel Figueroa Martínez.
- An MCCI investigation traced the reuse of a 2017 authorization across the Epic casino and the CrownCity and CityBets sites tied to a firm where Humberto Bermúdez Requena is a partner.
- Segob said those platforms and the Centenario and Diamante casinos operated under the older 2017 license held by other companies, not under Clíe’s 2024 permits.
- Former minister Luisa María Alcalde said a 2023 ruling ended years of litigation and that the new permits exclude slots and table games, which she said has kept them idle.