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Malta’s takeaway passports: Millionaires spend an average of 16 days in the country before receiving citizenship

In one particularly bizarre case reported in the documents, an individual from the United Arab Emirates arrived in the morning and left nine hours later, having taken his oath of allegiance.

By Vish Gain for AML Intelligence

IN A WORLD of deliveries and takeaways instead of dine-ins, Malta’s citizenship scheme is certainly keeping up with the times. Reports of Malta’s ‘golden passports’ being handed out to wealthy non-EU citizens within days of applying for citizenship are making international headlines and troubling European policymakers who believe in the ‘essence’ of EU citizenship.

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