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Geng Fanjian is 40 years old and is from Dongguo. He has several companies under his name, mainly engaged in decoration and building materials business, with total assets of tens of millions of Dongguo currency. He has two children, his elder son is six years old and his younger daughter is two years old.

The first time he heard about Fiso Port was during a lecture in August 2017, in the eastern city of Shanghai.

Geng Fanjian is not from Shanghai. He lives in a city in northern Jiangsu. He comes to Shanghai to discuss business and meet friends. He was dragged by his friends to attend a lecture at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Songdong District. The lecture was called "Jiliguo Fiso Port Investment Immigration Project Promotion Conference."

That was more than two years ago. If Hua Zhenxing had been there, his jaw might have dropped. Let alone him, anyone who grew up in Port Feso, such as Charles, would have such a reaction.

Where is Fiso Port? It is one of the poorest, backward, chaotic and dangerous areas in the world. The average life expectancy of residents is only in their early thirties, and the per capita annual income is only 200 meters. Most of the neighborhoods are controlled by more than 60 gangs, large and small. The total population is less than 600,000.

Hua Zhenxing, who grew up in Fiso Port, was in a grocery store, receiving traditional Eastern education and being exposed to information from all over the world. When he opened the door of the grocery store, what he saw was a hellish scene.

Where was Shanghai where Geng Fanjian was at that time? It is the most prosperous first-tier city in Dongguo and the most dynamic metropolis in the world in the past ten years. If a non-Hong Kong person comes to Shanghai, he will think that he has arrived in heaven!

Geng Fanjian knew about the country of Jili. He had read about it in the world geography textbook in middle school. He had also heard that the place was poor, backward and war-torn, but he had never heard of Fisoport.

However, the host of the promotion meeting overturned everyone's inherent understanding, saying that the war happened a long time ago, and that today's Kilili Country and Fiso Port are developing very well.

There were about a hundred audience members at the venue, and several heads of the Belly Foreign Investment Bureau were sitting on the stage. Anyway, they all have faces from Bailuozhou, and the host introduced them as such. (According to Huazhenxing’s subsequent investigation, there is no foreign investment bureau in the country, and its corresponding government functional department is not called this name when translated.)

How could the people on the stage at the immigration project promotion conference in Aiso Port appear as officials from another country? This is exactly the point of the propaganda!

According to reports, the country of Kilili was once an overseas territory of the country of Beli. It only declared independence in the 1960s and still maintains a certain subordinate relationship with the country of Beli. Holding a passport from the country of Lili, you can enter other countries without a visa.

According to the Schengen Agreement between the countries of the Romania Alliance, being able to enter other countries without a visa means that you can enter the 26 countries of the Romania Alliance without a visa. These are the second, and more importantly, as long as you invest in a hotel project in Fiso Port, you can obtain the passport of the country of Kilili. After five years, you will have the opportunity to become a naturalized citizen of the country of Kilili.

This is a curved path to naturalize in another country. In the middle five years, you will use your status as a resident of the country as a springboard. After success, you can enjoy the benefits of education and medical care for citizens of the countries in the Roba Alliance.

The organizer of the promotion meeting is Pingjing Dayang Overseas Consulting Co., Ltd., registered in Pingjing City, the capital of East China, and specializes in providing various immigration consulting and intermediary services. In recent years, there have been a large number of companies of this type in Dongguo, and they have even formed an "immigration industry."

In the special promotional video played at the scene, Feso Port is like spring all year round and the scenery is picturesque. People laze on the beach and bask in the sun, tasting tropical fruits and various weird drinks.

Everyone's expressions are so leisurely and comfortable, and they greet strangers with polite and confident smiles... Turning the camera again, looking from the sea to the land, one after another exquisite buildings are hidden among the lush tropical vegetation. The community is clean and peaceful.

The promotional video was shot in early January 2017 in the southern coastal area of ​​Fiso Port, and even the palm estate was filmed.

There is a world away from other neighborhoods in Feso Port. The winter after the light rainy season every year is the best time for Feso Port's climate. Indeed, many overseas tourists go there for vacation, and their footprints basically never set foot in Feso Port. river.

Several "promotion ambassadors" on the stage told the audience through simultaneous interpretation on the spot that this project is to invest in a hotel in Fiso Port. The investment required per person is 100,000 gold, which will be fully returned after five years.

Moreover, in these five years, the project party will lease and expect an annual income of 5%. After five years, not only will the capital be repaid, but also 25,000 yuan will be earned, which is equivalent to about 170,000 to 80,000 Dongguo currency.

The third-party service fee for this immigration project is NT$500,000. The so-called third-party service is the immigration agency. Calculated in this way, it is equivalent to spending a little over 300,000 yuan to become a naturalized citizen of the country in five years.

During these five years, they can also live in Fiso Port at any time, and have a free room in the hotel they invested in... Geng Fanjian was attracted on the spot, and after the lecture, he was invited to another negotiation room by the organizer , had one-to-one communication with the account manager.

He did not notice at the time that interested customers communicated one-on-one, with almost no communication between them. In retrospect, the organizers seemed to have deliberately prevented discussions among customers. The slogan promoted at the time was "one-stop service with dedicated personnel and dedicated trips."

Geng Fanjian paid the consulting fee of NT$15,000 on the spot and signed a service agreement with the other party. This consulting fee is the cost of consulting services provided by Da Anyang. It is considered an additional expense, but it is only a small amount of money for Geng Fanjian.

Later, Geng Fanjian and his wife flew to Jili Country to inspect the project in person. This was the first time in his life that he went abroad, and the landing itinerary was all arranged by the project party. After taking a bus from Mowang Airport to the port, the passenger ship went directly to the southern coast of Fiso Port and checked into a luxury hotel.

The so-called luxury is just that. It is almost four-star by Dongguo standards, but it is very exotic, with a large area and beautiful scenery, which is equivalent to vacationing overseas.

The project team pointed to a place, and sure enough, the site had been leveled and foundation digging began. They signed a formal investment immigration agreement here.

After paying various subsequent fees, I got the passport of Kilili Country, and the registered place of residence was Banda City. And according to Geng Fanjian's request, the passport was changed to a new name.

He can use this name and passport to open accounts in various local banks, and they cannot be checked in Dongguo. At the same time, Geng Fanjian also retained his Dongguo passport and ID card.

That happened at the end of 2017 or the beginning of 2018. Then Geng Fanjian returned to China, and the agency told him to just wait and see. At that time, no one around him knew that he had become a citizen of Jili Country and had a new name.

But in the blink of an eye, at the beginning of 2019, the promised 5% annual investment income did not arrive in the account, so he found Daanyang Company again. The account manager asked him to read the agreement. The investment income will be obtained after the hotel is completed and opened. Now the hotel has not been completed, and of course there is no income yet.

But the account manager also reassured him that the hotel would be completed in another year, and the five-year return on investment and the full return of the investment after five years would remain unchanged. Moreover, these two years are not counted in the waiting time for naturalization. He can still become a citizen of the country as long as he waits for another four years.

Geng Fanjian was not stupid. He immediately took out the terms of the original agreement to check. The contract stated that the hotel construction could be completed within half a year and the property rights transfer procedures would be completed. But now a year has passed.

The intermediary explained that due to the large number of investors, the hotel needed to be redesigned and expanded in scale and reception capacity, so the construction period was postponed.

At this time, Geng Fanjian felt something was wrong, but he still couldn't believe that such a large company as Da Anyang Abroad, which had been operating in the immigration industry for many years, would engage in blatantly fraudulent projects. Even if there is fraud, he can still claim compensation through legal channels with the contract in hand.

But another year passed, and not only did he not receive news of the completion of the hotel, the relevant publicity for the project had been deleted from the Da Anyang Company's official website.

When Geng Fanjian came to visit him again, he found that the original investment consultant who had "dedicated personnel and one-stop service to the end" had resigned. The person who received him only told him that the hotel was still under construction.

Geng Fanjian immediately demanded a return of the investment, otherwise he would resort to legal action. However, the other party said that Daanyang Company had fulfilled its contractual obligations, and the implication was that Geng Fanjian should go ahead and sue.

Geng Fanjian contacted the same group of investors in this project, and they formed a rights protection group. They also paid for a lawyer named Knight in Shanghai to represent foreign-related economic disputes.

Lawyer Knight read all the agreement materials in their hands, including many foreign language materials, and told them that it was almost impossible to win this case in China, and there was no way to even prosecute it.

Lawyer Knight pointed out that there have been many such immigration projects in recent years, and the industry is currently very disordered. The purpose of some intermediaries is to charge high service fees and commissions. As for whether the project itself will deceive people, it depends on whether God Free shipping.

This involves many complex professional legal issues. For example, Daanyang Company is only an intermediary, not the developer of the project. They only charge consulting fees and promotion commissions.

Knight read all the agreement texts and pointed out that the services promised by Dayanyang Company had actually been completed, which was to apply for the nationality of several countries for customers.

There are two biggest pitfalls here. The first is that holders of a Gila passport can indeed enter the country without a visa, and thus enter the 26 countries of the Romanian Union without a visa. But they can only work as tourists, and they can neither work locally nor enjoy any benefits.

As for whether you can become a citizen of another country after five years, there are policies and possibilities, but each person needs to apply according to the country's regulations. Whether to approve or not is a matter for the country. This is not guaranteed by the intermediary agency, and there is also a detailed introduction in foreign languages ​​in the appendix of the contract.

The second big pitfall is the hotel. The project construction and project management parties are both in the country of Guili, and they signed an investment agreement. This is a dispute over project delays.

There is also a legal catch in this. This group of investors have already obtained the nationality of Kilili Country, and the project location is also within the territory of Kilili Country. The courts of the Eastern Kingdom cannot try the disputes between the citizens of the Kingdom of Kiri within the territory of the Kingdom of Kiri.

Theoretically, they can also sue Daanyang Company domestically, claiming that the other party committed fraud in the process of promoting the project. But once it goes to court, there's another problem: these people themselves have already broken the law.

Dongguo does not recognize dual nationality. They went through the naturalization procedures of Kililiguo, but did not report it to the public security and foreign affairs departments. They still retained their Dongguan passports and citizenship.

When submitting evidence for prosecution, this information must be submitted, so they will face a dilemma before the trial. The Dongguo passport will be confiscated and cut off.

As a citizen of East Mandarin Kingdom, only one of these two identities can be retained by then. If they still want to retain their Dongguo citizenship, then they should not go to court, or at least don't run into the guns of Dongguo's law enforcement agencies.

So, whether theoretically or legally, the feasible way to safeguard rights is to go to the Kingdom of Gilly and sue the construction and management parties of the hotel project for breach of contract as a citizen of the Kingdom of Gilly, demanding recovery of investment or compensation.

But Lawyer Knight did not recommend that they do this, and if they want to litigate this lawsuit, they must obtain evidence that the project party has indeed not used the investment for hotel construction... The professional advice she provided was basically these.

This is a protracted tussle. From Geng Fanjian's perspective, he paid a total of 15,000 Dongguo currency for consulting fees, 500,000 Dongguo currency for third-party intermediary fees, and an investment of 100,000 gold. The total amount exceeded 1.33 million Dongguo currency. For more than 10,000 yuan, I only got a passport from several countries.

The hotel project is far away, and the investment may be in vain. As for the promise of naturalization in the country, it is an empty guarantee. He still needs to apply according to the regulations. The intermediary can only help fill in the information, but there is no guarantee that the application will be approved.

How could Geng Fanjian be able to swallow this breath? More than a hundred investors who also participated in this project couldn't swallow this breath.

Later, due to the epidemic, many things were delayed. Until last autumn, the epidemic in Dongguo was basically under control. After the heavy rainy season here, Geng Fanjian came to Fesuo Port again.

The lawyer advised him not to come, but Geng Fanjian came anyway, and he actually dared to come! He is here to collect evidence.

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