FOI request FA 20/08/00701: documents on the Business Innovation and Investment Program (internal emails and briefing, 2019)

FOI release FA 20/08/00701 (56 pages, many scanned and OCRed, heavily redacted): emails on a 2015-16 internal audit of fraud risk in high-risk visas (GSM and SIV); a Dec 2019 security summary on money laundering; BIIP review media talking points (5 Dec 2019) and Q&A briefing cleared 11 Dec 2019 (stream thresholds; 1,193 Investor and 2,281 SIV primary grants to Nov 2019 with $1.79bn and $11.4bn; CIF composition; website SIV statistics to 31 Aug 2019: 2,236 grants, 1,644 pre- and 592 post-July 2015 rules, $11.18bn; SIV sponsor table 1 Jul-31 Aug 2019 with EOIs, invitations, lodgements and grants; top five source countries for applications and grants); emails on cryptocurrency as investment, Hong Kong integrity sampling, gifting and gambling source-of-funds policy, remitters and trail of funds, SIV application quality, document verification rates (100%), 99 SIV withdrawals processed in Hong Kong in 2018-19 of which 22 after the CSI request, 33.7% SIV withdrawal rate in 2018-19, passports of convenience, and May 2020 BIIP risk list. Everything with a number is extracted (the six earlier rows not duplicated); the integrity narrative has no further numbers. Four new indicators proposed (expressions_of_interest, invitations_issued, withdrawal_rate, document_verification_rate).