Cyprus just shut down a program providing passports to anyone with a spare $2 million amid scandal

A street in Limasson, Cyprus.
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The world's wealthiest have snapping up secondary passports amid the coronavirus pandemic through citizenship by investment programs, which fittingly provide citizenship in exchange for an investment — sometimes upward of $2 million — usually in the form of real estate.
While there are a number of programs across the globe, interest has particularly surged in Cyprus and Montenegro, mostly due to their European access. The Cypriot program,