Dan Bilzerian, is in trouble with the law. Again. This time however it’s not just violence against women he’s under scrutiny for or misdemeanour bomb-bulding. This time he’s triggered a full blown international incident.
It started when Dan Bilzerian was in Armenia earlier this month to get his citizenship confirmed and – having failed to get into the Navy SEALs – to register with the Armenian armed forces. While there he took a trip out to a gun range and fired off a rocket for his Instagram following.
Unfortunately he wasn’t in Armenia at the time. He had crossed the border into Artsakh.
Artsakh, better known – if known at all – as Nagorno-Karabakh is an autonomous area of Azerbaijan. Though technically Azerbaijani soil, Artsakh’s independent government apparently doesn’t mind letting off the odd rocket for a ‘celebrity’ trooper.
The Azerbaijani government on the other hand don’t take kindly to Armenian nationals firing off unregistered RPGs on what they see as their soil.
The result has been a note to the US and Interpol asking if they could have Bilzerian served up. Armenia has naturally called it a political stunt, which it more or less is, and Bilzerian is claiming he is being targeted for his high profile, and not for the fact that he posted a photo of him committing the alleged crime to his Instagram.
I for one am looking forward to Bilzerian’s IG posts documenting life in a Central Asian military gaol.