{"id":34076,"date":"2021-07-15T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/ex-bikie-and-missing-property-magnate-among-australian-names-granted-vanuatu-citizenship"},"modified":"2021-07-15T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:04:26","slug":"ex-bikie-and-missing-property-magnate-among-australian-names-granted-vanuatu-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34076","title":{"rendered":"Ex-bikie and missing property magnate among Australian names granted Vanuatu citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Coffen and Zhou Xiang Huang on list of those who bought passports from the Pacific nation in 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/citizenship-for-sale-fugitives-politicians-and-disgraced-businesspeople-buying-vanuatu-passports\">Citizenship for sale: fugitives, politicians and disgraced businesspeople buying Vanuatu passports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/whos-buying-vanuatus-passports-crypto-moguls-wanted-men-and-even-a-prime-minister\">Who\u2019s buying Vanuatu\u2019s passports? Crypto moguls, wanted men and even a prime minister<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former Comanchero bikie and a missing property magnate owing hundreds of millions of dollars after his businesses collapsed are among Australians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/citizenship-for-sale-fugitives-politicians-and-disgraced-businesspeople-buying-vanuatu-passports\">granted citizenship through Vanuatu\u2019s controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Francis Coffen and Zhou Xiang Huang, both from Australia, appear on a list of people who purchased citizenship from Vanuatu for US$130,000 last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/ex-bikie-and-missing-property-magnate-among-australian-names-granted-vanuatu-citizenship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Coffen and Zhou Xiang Huang on list of those who bought passports from the Pacific nation in 2020Citizenship for sale: fugitives, politicians and disgraced businesspeople buying Vanuatu passportsWho\u2019s buying Vanuatu\u2019s passports? Crypto moguls, wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34088,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076\/revisions\/34088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}