Cyprus Papers: Golden visa schemes are broken beyond repair, EU must act
The European Commission must take decisive action against Member States’ scandal-ridden ‘golden visa’ schemes, which a new leak of documents shows remain vulnerable to corruption and money laundering, Transparency International said today. The Cyprus Papers – a new series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit – shows that the European Union (EU) is currently defenceless against the haphazard sale of EU citizenship and residency to criminals and the corrupt. Investigative reporters obtained a trove of documents that appear to show