The European Commission said today that schemes that sell citizenship and residency to the super rich, known as ‘golden visas’, threaten the EU’s collective security and integrity. The Commission’s report states that the citizenship schemes...
Brussels, 10 October 2018 – The doors of Europe are open to criminals and the corrupt, thanks to lax, opaque, and mismanaged ‘Golden Visa’ schemes, according to a report released today by Transparency International and Global Witness. The two...
Berlin / Brussels, 5 March, 2018 – Today, a series of investigations published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have detailed how citizenship- and residence-by-investment schemes, commonly referred to as...
Residency and citizenship-by-investment schemes, commonly known as golden visas or passports for sale, offer fast-track citizenship or residency status to foreign, wealthy investors in exchange for large investments. These programmes have been...
The corners of this continent might be leaving the EU’s doors open to criminals and the corrupt who wish to escape justice. Golden visas and the selling of EU citizenship, as the Guardian recently uncovered, points to several cases where these...
Following the 2008 financial crisis, we have seen new kinds of investor schemes blossoming across Europe. Their names and modalities differ from one Member State to the other – the Tier 1 investor visa in the UK, the Autorização de...
