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Fake identities of Nazi victims' grandchildren obtain German citizenship
The investigation conducted by the German magazine "Der Spiegel" concluded that individuals are cheating the German nationality system through false claims of belonging to Jewish families that fled Germany during the Nazi era, in order to reacquire German citizenship under laws that grant such rights to Nazi victims, their children, and grandchildren. The fraudsters used intermediaries and external platforms, particularly Chinese ones, to sell services for obtaining nationality for amounts exceeding 500,000 euros. They accomplished this by forging documents and kinship certificates, then submitting these to German consulates abroad. One prominent case involved a Chinese man named Liu H., who obtained citizenship under the name "Derek Wong," falsely claiming he was a grandson of a Jewish family, despite having no relation to them. Additionally, the man is wanted in connection with a murder case in the Philippines and is subject to extradition to Chinese authorities. The investigation indicates that the legal provisions— which do not require residence or fluency in German— have facilitated a broad market for such fraud.
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