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In disbelief at this @nytimes article, promoting a racket that:
1) is blacklisted by the OECD
2) uses fraud to fake residency
3) causes intense environmental destruction
4) sells passports to criminals
5) is run by Christian Kalin, known to aid criminals
nytimes.com/2019/05/21/rea…
1) is blacklisted by the OECD
2) uses fraud to fake residency
3) causes intense environmental destruction
4) sells passports to criminals
5) is run by Christian Kalin, known to aid criminals
nytimes.com/2019/05/21/rea…
They chose a photo of a pretty square in the Canary Islands for this piece. But what does a country that is part of this racket actually end up looking like? This, an ugly concrete desert for nonresident passport buyers where there once was a beautiful Mediterranean town: 
What kind of people does Kalin work for? Exhibit 1: Ahmad Karkuly of Chicago, jailed for running a $17m mortgage fraud. Kalin solicited a Cook Islands trust for Karkuly to hide his money, probably from people he defrauded and US authorities: afr.com/news/policy/ta…
Exhibit 2: Kalin sold a St Kitts passport to Ali Sadr Hasheminejad, whose father is sanctioned by the US and who is himself indicted in the US on multiple money laundering charges and sanctions evasion, and whose bank in Malta, Pilatus Bank, was forcibly shut down last year.
