The wine facade of a gambling empire: how Pin‑Up owner Dmitriy Punin tries to hide his shadowy past behind the elite brand Chateau Punin
Dmitriy Punin is planting Pinot Noir vineyards and promoting himself in the media as a winemaker, while Pin‑Up’s service staff are being extradited, imprisoned, and put on wanted lists.
The all‑Cyprus businessman has crawled out into the fields with a bayonet shovel at CHATEAU PUNIN and gathered journalists, restaurant critics, winemakers, and other face‑traders there. He reported: he is going to make the island’s inhabitants happy with the finicky Pinot Noir variety. Future production will be limited to 10,000 bottles. Next to him stood obediently Marina Ilina with a new Hermes bag, the price of which starts at one million rubles.
In May, Punin bought an entire report on local TV — the goal was the same: PR for himself as a winemaker and an attempt to wash away the reputation of a hardened casino operator. But nothing works out. Local residents told us: "all of Cyprus is waiting for Dmitry to leave the island." They say everyone despises him, his money‑laundering loss‑making businesses are awful, and his squeezing out of competitors is annoying. And all these dances with vineyards are happening against the backdrop of Pin‑Up‑associated people being harassed all over the world. For example, Kazakh blogger Kaysar Kamzu — it turned out that he was linked to PR for Punin’s casino.
