Ex-bikie and missing property magnate among Australian names granted Vanuatu citizenship

Marco Coffen and Zhou Xiang Huang on list of those who bought passports from the Pacific nation in 2020

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A former Comanchero bikie and a missing property magnate owing hundreds of millions of dollars after his businesses collapsed are among Australians granted citizenship through Vanuatu's controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme.

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.