China's super-rich get the lion's share of British plutocrat visas
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3TZTK)
The UK will give you a visa if you "invest" USD2.65M in the country; historically these "millionaire visas" were used by Eastern European oligarchs and other looters whose "investments" were in shell companies or high-end, empty luxury flats, or similar socially useless ways of laundering their fortunes. (more")