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Germany Arrests 10 for Illicitly Providing Residence Permits to Wealthy Foreigners from China and Arab Countries (www.occrp.org)
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Authorities detained 10 suspects, including two lawyers and one government employee.

The group is suspected of exploiting special provisions for foreign skilled workers to issue residence permits to hundreds of wealthy foreigners, primarily Chinese nationals but also individuals from the Arab region.

Clients paid between 30,000 and 350,000 euros to the lawyers, who then created fictitious companies to employ the clients and issued them salaries on paper. This facilitated their acquisition of residence permits in Germany.

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

I kind of get the feeling that somebody higher up is calling for a crack down on Chinese illegal practices in Germany right now. There is a lot in the past couple days, since Scholz has returned from Bejing and got nothing out of it.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Got nothing out of it, on the outside.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

He apparently tried to bring Bejing to be harder on Russia and was willing to use Germanys strength to persuade the EU to go easy on China. Kind of looks like it has failed and Germany is cracking down on China, but relativly silently.

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