Lots of promised investments, naive local politicians (the same guy is still in power, gah), lack of critical thinking.
The end result was just a lot of Swedish/EU visas. They had been advertised for $20-30k per family in China. Oh, and also some number of people who had "paid for visas" but not received anything before it all crumbled.
Mmm my browser tools fail on that page, what was the tldr regarding the visa scam? I am in China and there is a huge business scamming foreigners to open a business and get a work-residence permits. EDIT: see comments below, yeah, it seems a similar scam
My old home region in Sweden fell victim to a similar scam about 20 years ago. It also originated from China.
Use browser based translation tools on https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/smaland/fanerdun-1.
Lots of promised investments, naive local politicians (the same guy is still in power, gah), lack of critical thinking.
The end result was just a lot of Swedish/EU visas. They had been advertised for $20-30k per family in China. Oh, and also some number of people who had "paid for visas" but not received anything before it all crumbled.
Mmm my browser tools fail on that page, what was the tldr regarding the visa scam? I am in China and there is a huge business scamming foreigners to open a business and get a work-residence permits. EDIT: see comments below, yeah, it seems a similar scam