According to his 2020 car insurance policy, businessman De Xian Wang was a Taiwanese student living in Ireland for less than a year out of an apartment in Blanchardstown. Yet three years earlier in October 217, Wang had struck a deal to buy three luxury homes under construction in Templeogue, Dublin for €2.47 million.  He was looking to relocate to Ireland under the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP), a golden visa scheme that grants residence to high-net-worth non-European nationals in exchange for a €1 million-plus approved investment or charitable donation.  Wang says he runs a software business in the Far East…

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