Portugal, China - Nov 18

Questions are being raised by members of the Portuguese Parliament as to the equity of a program involving documents popularly known as “golden visas.” These temporary visas are offered to foreign nationals in return for a minimum investment of €500,000. A sum of over €1 billion have been raised, with 1,775 visas issued since 2012 and more than eighty percent of those have been issued to Chinese nationals. Just last week, eleven individuals had been arrested with charges of corruption relating to the issuing program and the interior minister, Miguel Macedo, stepped down.

Source: The Economist