Kazakhstan has blocked 167,000 online casino sites since 2024 and suspended 13 sportsbook licenses

Kazakhstan’s anti-illegal gambling campaign has moved from warning labels to actual infrastructure controls: 167,000 online casino sites have been blocked since 2024, and 13 sportsbook licenses have been suspended over the same period. For PSPs and acquirers, that is the part that matters — not the headline number itself, but the fact that the country is actively cutting off access and pulling licenses when it sees fit.

1. The main enforcement figure is 167,000 blocked online casino sites since 2024. That is a large-scale filtering effort, and it tells operators that access to gray-market traffic in Kazakhstan is being actively constrained rather than merely monitored.
2. In the same period, Kazakhstan suspended 13 sportsbook licenses. For payment providers, this matters because sportsbook activity is often routed through the same banking and processing chains that also touch other high-risk verticals, so license status is not an abstract compliance detail — it affects whether volume can continue to settle.
3. The source does not provide further details on which operators were affected, which PSPs were involved, or whether the suspensions were temporary or final. What it does show is a regulator willing to intervene both at the website level and at the licensing level.