Authorities detained 10 suspects, including two lawyers and one government employee.
The group is suspected of exploiting special provisions for foreign skilled workers to issue residence permits to hundreds of wealthy foreigners, primarily Chinese nationals but also individuals from the Arab region.
Clients paid between 30,000 and 350,000 euros to the lawyers, who then created fictitious companies to employ the clients and issued them salaries on paper. This facilitated their acquisition of residence permits in Germany.
He apparently tried to bring Bejing to be harder on Russia and was willing to use Germanys strength to persuade the EU to go easy on China. Kind of looks like it has failed and Germany is cracking down on China, but relativly silently.