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Money trail: Why Huawen’s clients want answers about their cash

The Huawen Foundation has successfully raised €50 million from Chinese investors wishing to avail of what is colloquially known as Ireland’s ‘cash for visas’ scheme

Kai Dai of the Huawen Foundation, which serves as an agency to help non-European investors get visas through Ireland’s immigrant investment programme (IIP)

In the last few months, a number of curious cases in both the High Court and the Workplace Relations Commission have begun to emerge.

They relate to a company called the Huawen Foundation, which is owned by a successful Chinese entrepreneur called Kai Dai.

Huawen, which has been in operation since 2014, serves as an agency to help non-European investors get visas through Ireland’s immigrant investment programme (IIP).

The IIP proposition is simple: investors have ...