{"id":34078,"date":"2021-07-15T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/whos-buying-vanuatus-passports-crypto-moguls-wanted-men-and-even-a-prime-minister"},"modified":"2021-07-15T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:04:06","slug":"whos-buying-vanuatus-passports-crypto-moguls-wanted-men-and-even-a-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34078","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s buying Vanuatu\u2019s passports? Crypto moguls, wanted men and even a prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The revelations from a Guardian investigation cast new light on the world of \u2018golden passports\u2019<\/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\/ex-bikie-and-missing-property-magnate-among-australian-names-granted-vanuatu-citizenship\">Ex-bikie and missing property magnate among Australian names granted Vanuatu citizenship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What links an Italian broker accused of extorting the Vatican, South African brothers accused of absconding with bitcoin worth more than $3bn from their investors and a disgraced Turkish banking mogul who served time for harbouring his nephew after a murder?<\/p>\n<p>They all recently became citizens of Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/15\/whos-buying-vanuatus-passports-crypto-moguls-wanted-men-and-even-a-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revelations from a Guardian investigation cast new light on the world of \u2018golden passports\u2019Citizenship for sale: fugitives, politicians and disgraced businesspeople buying Vanuatu passportsEx-bikie and missing property magnate among Australian name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2320,"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":[41,874,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/34078","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\/2320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions\/34079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}