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image captionMalta has offered citizenship to foreign nationals in return for investment since 2014
Wealthy non-EU nationals received Maltese citizenship after spending just days in the EU state, a journalistic investigation has found.
Leaked documents show some investors met the one-year residence requirement by renting empty properties.
The EU has repeatedly raised concerns over golden passport schemes in Malta, Cyprus and elsewhere.
The brokering company involved denied any systematic problems, and Malta has previously defended its scheme.
What did the investigation find?
The documents showed that millionaires would spend an average of 16 days in Malta during their one-year residence period before receiving citizenship, according to The Times of Malta.
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