The Golden Passports of the EU - available in a variety of flavors, from Maltese to Cypriot to Portuguese - offer the discerning failson access to the luxury good shops and fleshpots of 27 advanced economies, making it a favorite of the #KhmerRiche - the junior klept of Cambodia's ruling faction:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/cambodia-hunsen-wealth/
15/
Cambodia’s ruling elite are patriots who would never hide money abroad, says the country's leader, Hun Sen. But a Reuters investigation shows that Hun Sen’s relatives and allies have overseas assets worth millions of dollars, and some have bought themselves European citizenship.
All of this created cover for the #KhmerRiche: politically connected insiders and Hun Sen's relatives, who looted the country, hired #Pricewaterhousecooper to help them offshore their money through #Cypriot banks, and procured #GoldenPassports from #Cyprus to let them trip through the EU on luxury spending-sprees:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/cambodia-hunsen-wealth/
7/
Cambodia’s ruling elite are patriots who would never hide money abroad, says the country's leader, Hun Sen. But a Reuters investigation shows that Hun Sen’s relatives and allies have overseas assets worth millions of dollars, and some have bought themselves European citizenship.
Cory Doctorow