How $220 billion of dirty money is laundered through Europe:
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"If you are a nefarious actor you would stay away from these investment migration programs because these are the immigration routes that have careful checks," says Chris Kaelin, chairman of Henley & Partners, one of the world's largest citizenship advisory firms.Kaelin. You could set up a company in an EU country and obtain a work permit, say. Or forge a birth certificate and, therefore, get a passport permitting access to the EU's no-border Schengen zone.
"The EU gives about one million citizenships a year. Most are legitimate but tens of thousands are not, and that's the real problem in Europe," says
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