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A global anti-financial crime group's recent criticism of "golden passports" suggests it will evaluate the controls nations have placed around them going forward, analysts told ACAMS moneylaundering.com, without necessarily updating its standards to account for them. In a 62-page report, the Financial Action Task Force warned last month that governments that offer passports to wealthy foreigners who agree to directly transfer funds to their respective treasuries, acquire local real estate, launch a domestic business or otherwise invest in their economies often fail to equip such programs with adequate safeguards against illicit finance. FATF otherwise confined the report to general analysis...