As of June 1, Kazakhstan’s state self-exclusion system has 224,793 active registrations from 463,829 applications submitted since its March 2024 launch.
The latest data comes as the government reviews additional gambling reforms. Officials are considering a longer exclusion period and new penalties for operators that allow excluded people to keep gambling.
Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said individuals have used the e-government portal to request voluntary exclusion from gambling since the system went live. Of the 463,829 applications submitted, about 48% remain active.
The mechanism allows people to block their own access to gambling through a state-run digital service. Current proposals would extend the maximum self-exclusion period to 10 years and introduce administrative liability for gambling businesses that admit excluded customers.
Wider reform package
Those proposals sit within a broader set of gambling reforms introduced over the past two years. Kazakhstan has already barred certain groups from gambling, including public servants, military personnel, police officers, and people listed as debtors.
Authorities have also tightened rules on gambling marketing. The updated framework restricts advertising by bookmakers and totalizators, which are pari-mutuel betting operators, and bans gambling-related SMS campaigns.
Enforcement measures have also targeted unlicensed online gambling. Officials reported that the national cyber-monitoring system has blocked more than 55,000 illegal online casino websites.
That online enforcement drive runs alongside the self-exclusion system as part of the same regulatory push. The combined approach focuses on both limiting consumer access and disrupting unauthorised operators.
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