BBC: Cyprus to suspend ‘EU golden passports’ scheme
Satire: The Cyprus Papers
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The Cyprus Papers Undercover
The impact from The Cyprus Papers Undercover was swift and dramatic.
An emergency cabinet meeting was called a day after the documentary aired and the government announced that its ‘golden passport’ scheme would be abolished. The Cyprus attorney general launched three criminal investigations.
Thousands of Cypriots took to the streets calling for resignations of the government officials implicated in the investigation and an end to high-level corruption. Member of parliament Christakis Giovani and president of parliament Demetris Syllouris both resigned from their posts within days.
The European Commission said its members "watched the documentary in disbelief" and launched legal proceedings against Cyprus.
A week later, a debate on citizenship-by-investment schemes was called at the European parliament. A Dutch MEP praised the 'brave journalists' from Al Jazeera for breaking the story.
The investigation had extensive global coverage, including in The New York Times, Economist, The Financial Times and the BBC.
— george mitides (@GeorgeMitides) October 17, 2020
#CyprusPapers #CyprusCorruption
— Seleucus I Nicator (@SheftaliesG) October 14, 2020
House of Corruption pic.twitter.com/rSBHZIueLn
What #EU couldn't do for years, @AJEnglish @AJIunit seems to have achieved in months?! After outcry, #Cyprus suspends its citizenship for cash programme that offered #EU passports to all sorts of characters. The power of investigative #journalism https://t.co/lPPdDRUy74
— gabrielabaczynska (@gbaczynska) October 13, 2020
Say no more #cypruspapers pic.twitter.com/p3YZir59RL
— Περτίτζι (@pertitzi) October 13, 2020
-God Can't Protect You, But I Can.#CyprusPapers #blacklist pic.twitter.com/lMrHWbocuM
— Con/nos Vasileiou (@meterizi) October 12, 2020
