Super rich persons of our world have enough of sport cars, boats and designer clothes. The desired status symbol in the moneyed circles is nowadys something quite different: the passport.
»Super rich persons are prepared to pay for a passport any amount of money and the cost is between 100.000 and 2,5 millions dollars – depending upon, in which country it is issued and what value it represents for its owner«, quotes the British „Telegraph“ Mr. Nuri Katz , the President of the company Apex Capital Partners. Meanwhile for some these documents have become „a true status symbol“. »There are persons, who posess 5 or 6 such documents. Out of the matter they made a hobby to collects the passports«, explains the expert. The majority of buyers are from China.
The most valuable and therefore the most expenisive documents are from Cyprus and enable their owners for the price of around millions Eur to travel without visa in more than 150 countries. For comparision: pricewise is the cheapest the passport of the Caribbean Sea island country Saint Lucia, which represents a cost of 100.000 $ ( about 85.000 Eur ) and offers the possibility to travel in 120 countries.
