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There is more to ‘community than investment
If ‘Kommunità Malta’ truly intends to live up to the name it has chosen for itself: the integration of all foreigners in the Maltese social fabric… and not just the ones whose only link to Malta is a single, one-time investment
28 April 2021, 7:37am
It is somewhat ironic that ‘Identity Malta’ – the government agency responsible for the controversial ‘citizenship by investment’ scheme – has now changed its name to ‘Komunita Malta’.
If anything, a recent expose by MaltaToday and The Malta Independent has only revealed how little of a sense of ‘community’ was actually required, to apply for citizenship through that scheme. The resulting ‘Passport Papers’ published documentation, provided by the applicants themselves, that was supposed to prove a ‘genuine link’ between applicant and prospective home country.
Saudi-arabiaMaltaDubaiDubayyUnited-arab-emiratesMalteseSaudiRobert-abelaIdentity-maltaMalta-independentPassport-paperThere was never a time when Malta’s passport-selling scheme was not suspect. The “others do it” excuse was ever convenient but ever hollow. ‘Others’ do things that look like what we do but no one does it quite like us.
Last week’s ‘Passport Papers’ are the documentary evidence of what the Maltese authorities and their accomplices have been denying for eight years. Every time the country was assured the scheme was simply about attracting talent and investment to Malta it was a lie. Every time applicants said they had lived here for a year it was likely a lie. Every time the Maltese authorities assured the world we were doing proper due diligence it was a lie. Every time a new passport-holder told an immigration official or a banker somewhere else in the world they were Maltese it was a lie.
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