Wot. This dude managed to get some kiosks in freakin malls without a business license? I'm not even mad, that's impressive.. impressive how the malls have been so careless to the point that they conducted business with some dude without a license.
I really don't know what this dude was thinking though. Did he really expect to not get caught? I would understand if he did everything online, but we're talking about physical bitcoin ATMs. Literally thousands of people pass by those ATMs by the daily LOL.
Malls are built to make money and they are concerned with how much money they can make within the space they have. Other than the shops that they would likely go a long way of doing some verifications and the likes, any other use of space are interpreted as alternative income which they would always encouraged themselves to always maximize. Places such as walkways, underneath the stairs, parking spaces etc are some of those places that there is little or no control whatsoever which I believe the guy in question must have take advantage of.
But with this, if the authority can make them share in the liability or shake them a little bit, they would surely sit up and ask for the right documentations before granting approvals.