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Kazakh blogger Kaysar Kamzu, who is associated with promoting the online casino Pin-Up, could be extradited from Vietnam to Kazakhstan.
Photos from Cam Ranh Airport were published by followers of journalist Mikhail Kozachkov. The images show Kamzu accompanied by a man who appears to be an officer of the Kazakh Financial Monitoring Agency.
Kamzu was placed on the international wanted list in January 2026. According to Kazakh journalists, the blogger, who has more than 2 million Instagram followers, promoted an online casino banned in Kazakhstan via a private Telegram channel with a reach of more than 400.000 subscribers.
Investigators say the system operated under the guise of the licensed bookmaker Pin-Up. Customers were redirected to websites offering roulette and other prohibited forms of gambling. Kamzu reportedly received substantial fees for promoting this model. In addition, his cryptocurrency assets worth nearly 200.000 US dollars were seized.
In April 2026 Vietnamese law enforcement detained the blogger in Cam Ranh at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan. Kamzu later claimed he had not been arrested and that immigration authorities had only confiscated his passport. The latest photos from the airport could indicate that preparations for his return to Kazakhstan are underway.
The trail leads to Punin
The Kazakh investigation does not concern only the blogger. In the same case, U.S. citizen Dmitriy Druzhinskiy and Ukrainian national Marina Levkovich were also placed on the international wanted list. Investigators say they coordinated a network of online casinos operating under the brands Pin-Up and PINCO.
According to journalist Mikhail Kozachkov, the ultimate beneficiaries of the business are Russian national Dmitriy Punin and Ukrainian national Marina Ilyina. The couple live in Cyprus.
Punin is the owner of Pin-Up and is wanted in the Ukraine under an arrest warrant. While people connected to his gambling empire are being sought and arrested in various countries, Punin himself remains in Cyprus and is actively trying to rehabilitate his reputation — including by positioning himself as a winemaker through the CHATEAU PUNIN project.
The Kamzu case shows that Punin’s gambling business continues to attract the attention of law enforcement authorities far beyond the borders of the Ukraine.
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