A scheme was commenced without legislative approval or ministerial regulations. The Government of the day started a passports for sale scheme with an informality that was staggering when one considers the importance of the issues involved. The conditions of the scheme were not properly set out and were, basically, open for negotiation in each individual case. The amount of money that needed to be invested was not laid down precisely. The means and duration of payment were not stated. There was no mechanism for properly checking the good character of applicants. There were no arrangements for checking what was promised by the investments, whether the promises materialised or whether the promised employment was created. The scheme was not properly regulated because it did not have to be. Why bother with that when the existing law gave the Minister such complete and sweeping powers? I do not deny for a moment that, over the life of the scheme, some very worthwhile investments were made and that some jobs were either created or saved. However, alongside this is the undeniable truth that many of the applications turned out badly. Some of the 107 granted citizenship were very dubious characters, some of the promised investments never materialised and some of the promised jobs were never created. Some of the money involved seems to have entered the pockets of middlemen who specialised in facilitating this very process.