Take this case involving Mr. Rustem Tursunbayev, a native of Kazakhstan.

He had been living in Canada as a permanent resident since 2009. On 10th February 2012, he was arrested by Canadian authorities after an Interpol alert.

The government of Kazakhstan is accusing him of stealing $20 million in assets from Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear company Kazatomprom, of which he was the Vice-President. He fled Kazakhstan after the President of Kazatomprom had been arrested.

(One must keep in mind that allegations by the Kazakhstan government must be taken cautiously, since Kazakhstan is not exactly a democratic country).

Mr. Tursunbayev is held under house arrest as Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board must decide whether he can remain in Canada.

It turned out that during the detention review, the board heard from Canada Border Services Agency’s (CBSA) counsel Andrej Rustja that Mr. Tursunbayev had a purchased passport from St. Kitts & Nevis and that there was a high risk that Mr. Tursunbayev could flee Canada with the use of that passport.

Mr. Tursunbayev had never declared the St Kitts & Nevis passport to the CBSA, but he was using it according to convenience.

http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2012/03/02/alleged_embezzler_is_victim_of_kazakhstans_corrupt_regime_defence_says.html

See also:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/04/rustem-tursunbayev/

Interesting extracts from the second link:

1. “The Saint Kitts passport was obtained only out of convenience, said Mr. Waldman.”

“He said a Saint Kitts passport allowed his client to travel without a visa to more countries than his Kazakhstan passport and it was “common practice.””

Mr. Waldman is defence lawyer.

2. “An official with Canada Border Services Agency also argued Friday that Mr. Tursunbayev, 49, the former vice–president of Kazakhstan’s national nuclear company Kazatomprom, had huge amounts of undeclared cash.”

This is the sort of person who may be attracted to Malta’s Individual Investor Program. And these are the type of situations Malta could find itself dealing and wasting its time with.

Meanwhile, even the US are investigating the St. Kitts & Nevis case referred to above.

http://www.winnfm.com/press-releases/6364-st-kitts-diplomatic-scandal-exploding-u-s-government-investigating

“The Popular and Charismatic UNITY Leader, informed hundreds of nationals in attendance and thousands listening via radio and online broadcasts with hundreds more viewing via video stream, that officials of the U.S government are concerned over the citizenship by investment program and in particular the due diligence and scrutiny that is applied. “They were here on Wednesday and Thursday in meetings with government officials such as Cabinet Secretary Joseph Edmeade. This fiasco relating to the reckless sale of diplomatic passports will not go away soon,” said Dr. Harris.”

The Super One news is likely to be a total fabrication.

The notion that what is said by the Little Joey and his Forty Thieves is true is an irrelevance to him and them – they are innately amoral.

These are the people that are offering talks to reach a consensus on the passports for sale law.

It is a trap. They sincerely believe that anyone that uses a moral compass and restricts themselves to telling the truth and attempting to work for the common good is a weak fool.

We must never become like them – as in my opinion, they are evil.

We must oppose and fight them

The US did no such thing. They simply haven’t committed themselves either way. Super One would read that bit of news as reassurance, when it is anything but.

In other words, due diligence processes are less rigorous than they should be.

That is more or less Malta’s position, as amply proven already.