with all of his indictments he's earned a shady reputation but after thirty years in the business he's as tough as nails every year in may he heads to basel in switzerland for the biggest art fair in the world art basel. he flies in a private jet for which he pays fifty thousand dollars a year. despite his tangles with the law he wants to be in the right places. the boss of the alamo want to go out of a sick little. seo get that money just as strong and yet people seem to get up to go on to be something else that will. look at your place and to be sensitive it lets you do something they cannot show but i'll let you know but second from a simple google search of a city but they couldn't get. the support that's at the moment bt need. i said. but this added benefit about obama's because the finale of the demo but he did that

to put them up to. something. help us to step up somebody might get the most but you know what's that been on the board to see again. but he did it up and he's good. and yet burning off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. all had to do with drug. syndicates with his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders a rudolph. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends with you to film a cold on going on what you do more to. handle the deal so. you should take

the older prediction one off also it is the should be of newman and i just. want. to put the filmy. doesn't. know if bush is on the point is that yes he did this bit by imagining yes but some of it as you. said at first so if. you want to see the. four thousand artists exhibit their works at art basel it attracts the general public but more importantly the biggest players on the international art market. thank you gallery owners collectors and curators of the world's museums. accompanied by his art consultant sixteen yves movie is here to check out the new trends. most of the works on show come from the store rooms of the geneva freeport

some two hundred fifty kilometers away. v.a. is here to show his fellow professionals that he's still in the game and is still to be taken seriously. the thought of me on a say i'm probably factors that. he can mostly. spillway oh yes how are you. ready for a. couple. of cost plus time. to. set up most of the men on his cell phone is david.

clearly troubled by our camera he bouvier quickly calls his assistant to go reassure him. use it the way you did you. did. it to me just like it must've been gentle while walking his emotion at the buses. but he has no rights regarding our footage. or cited thanks. david no mudd isn't just anyone he's the man with three hundred picasso's the head of one of the most powerful families in the art world the numb ods renown dealers. here's their stand at art basel mobiles by calder mira who's fontana's and because those. band also a royal lichtenstein and his own do you think all of them stars of modern art.

collection is valued at almost three billion dollars thousands of works most of which are stored at the geneva freeport. maybe the reason david no mud prefers to be discreet is because one of the paintings he owns is causing him problems with the law. the story started here in the paris archives in two thousand and eleven with this man james palmer. he is a canadian private detective who specializes in finding art looted from jews by the nazis. one day while rummaging in the paris archives he came across a file on a certain stetson or a jewish antiques dealer the man was dispossessed of all his assets during world war. or two. after the liberation of paris he found

a plane to recuperate his patrimony. the documentation is contained in this box it was here in the paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stoner for his stolen pate. the information that we found was that oscar stettner had been despoiled of a number of personal items carpet for example of portrait of him as a young man and also a painting by mostly any. and important painting that was looted from mr stener during the war. the canadian detective began his investigation he discovered that the antiques dealer staton or had made his claim for restitution in one thousand nine hundred six but well before the liberation the painting had

already been sold by the authorities. for the sum of sixteen thousand francs since then it disappeared. particularly because its description is so vague. the document only indicated that it was a painting signed by do jani portrait of a man. the detective had no idea what the painting looked like. he had to find a photo of it at all costs. by consulting peepers kept in the paris archives james palmer came across a clue this telegram. it states that stetson or that sent the mood yani to the venice biennale of one nine hundred thirty. i travelled to venice personally and went into the archives there and to the venice be anally archives i saw mr stettner spray painting. in a photograph. james palmer was delighted he'd found it. this

photo taken at the one nine hundred thirty venice biennale shows twelve paintings on the wall of the room dedicated to. ten portraits of women and two of men. the one on the right was already identified and well known. the painting in the middle however the one of a seated man is more mysterious. so now you've got reference to mr stener owning the painting you've got reference to portrait of a man. and you have a photograph that's the exact same painting that is now illustrated or described as the seated man. finally james palmer knew what the painting looked like. but where had it gone he searched everywhere activated his contacts tour the auction rooms archives and museums. and after

a few weeks ago. he found a trace of the painting here in london in the catalogue of an auction held at christie's in one thousand nine hundred six. the painting was intitled seated man with a cane. but who owned it. it was acquired by a shell company based in panama international arts center whose registration document is seen here. its rightful owner is a name. and yet palmer refused to give up and finally discovered another lead to finding the true owners. over the years the work appeared in a number of catalogs. and every time alongside the name of one of the most prestigious galleries in the world the helena mob gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basel.

james palmer decided to write tour. a cursory glance at the media environment could easily give you the impression that the vast majority of journalists studied psychology at university so many are convinced donald trump is not mentally fit to be president or the same journalist suffering from trumped arrangements and croak. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into paid. these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who

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show small seemed wrong when all pros just don't call. me to blow the fuse yet to stamp out disdain the constant activity. and engagement because of the trail . when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hell. out of new york. and they were ignored. which is not right it's not proper so i think after about a month or so they wrote him again and again they were ignored and eventually there

was a response and the response was essentially you are suing the wrong people you should be suing the international art center and we have nothing to do with that. james palmer was not taken in by her response. he filed a lawsuit against the health gallery in new york. but once again the lawyers denied the family were the owners of the painting. here is their statement to the court in new york. international arts center and nobody else not the helen gallery nor david that bought the painting at an auction held at christie's. things stopped dead there until two thousand and fifteen and the leaking of the panama papers extraordinary. a document published by the journalists revealed that behind the panamanian company international art

center was the renowned art dealer david. so he was a shareholder of the company that owns the painting despite his constant denials. the detective had scored a point. and now he just had to find out where he's seated man was in storage he had a bright idea maybe it was in the geneva freeport where the number of family kept the major part of its collection. this was judiciary issued a search warrant for the storerooms in april two thousand and sixteen and discovered the holy grail the much sought after painting. it's hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport where there are the nomad family are estimated to have of both three to four billion dollars worth of art or about four and a half thousand works of art in their little room in

a freeport. painting claimed to have been looted was well and truly in the storeroom in the freeport a revelation that caused an uproar. the heirs of the antique dealer stettner have now filed a claim for the restitution of the painting we contacted the no months after several attempts they finally agreed to open up their store room at the geneva freeport and to show us the painting in an exhibition room. we would never meet the art dealers themselves but they did accord us an exclusive uing of the painting a very solemn moment. the work was handled with great precaution it is estimated at about twenty million dollars today. the families with smaller would tell us their version of the story. is about their money.

make a set that blew up i laugh i mean i'm at peace and on a. fact. international and tony is a on the economy going to. me that mad. game . to clear his client's even further blow or even raise. has doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staten or. they don't seem to be. given these. fully is extant guess. what. the. in physically explicit.

i mean by. this. we had only a few minutes to film the painting. but as the handlers turned the work around we happened to film something on the back that we only noticed later this label from the one nine hundred thirty venice biennale. the owner's name had been crudely erased. and it looks like that of stanton or. a clue to which the detective never had access and which could be crucial for the next stage of his investigation. the canadian detective is convinced the geneva freeport could be housing other

works of dubious origin. well i think there's a high probability that many other paintings in the freeport were probably looted and probably rest there today that have not seen the light of day for many decades and i believe they're there and i think that it would be very interesting if the public were made aware or at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are so so that you know if the prosecutor's offices what's on it for example were to provide. us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones restore pretty quickly. for the swiss art dealers lawyer there's no point in dreaming no one will know for years what's really stored in the freeport. me little as i am not happy that he saw the fall say. they will save us you know that means.

so. our french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he is on the other side of the fence. people following of them also region if. your company at all didn't fall says we should know him all to be a softer you before all is so i. don't use aside the so. awful i can. reproduce your it don't. give us the whole supper related or the actual satin diskette because in the discussion. in geneva the middle yani case hit the headlines. the freeport authorities quickly became concerned about bad publicity. so in june two thousand and sixteen they called an

emergency press conference. all representatives of the main swiss media is were invited. was a. little. cameo started. on the floor where the president of the geneva freeport and his general secretary. both men seemed self-conscious rejecting all responsibility regarding the supposed owner of the painting david no money. he said it still is very low exactly. a little. more than michelle's eleven thirty to get to this little blue book or a little bit over with all this love appropriately a to z. list we got to this is illegal. in the u.s. is. also got all a slew of also where that was used these are not there is there were that all. of

the there that's also. read up and it is this is also the risk of. the fifty most yahoo. and they also pose a also the more it is it the more stars it's really your soldiers go the distance or to destroy. but what other secrets are really hidden in the freeport. in switzerland some official authorities have become extremely concerned we managed to obtain this report from the swiss federal audit office. it unequivocally denounces the opaqueness of the geneva freeport. irregularities regarding inventories and absence of traceability of merchandise. errors in stock accountancy and recurrent problems which occur during controls. our french customs officer includes laxity on the part of the swiss administrators

that oversee business conducted in the freeport. zero point six. it is a nice house from pervy order to mock you all. just took is risky saw the guns are in your memory called. lonely but you don't remember the. need mom was just saw she don't see but don't i mean complete paul it does trees leboeuf why. this is just. a formality. make. in response to widespread criticism the recently appointed president of the geneva

freeport a magistrate known for his integrity is supposedly fighting the good fight calling for much stricter regulations. that it does the prison formula. liken it. to. feel more. cautious and. this man is aware that there is still a long way to go. but having agreed to make concessions on its banking secrecy will switzerland also finally agree to open the doors of the world's biggest safe.

in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars pass through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most like from documents where examine. all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of.

newspaper. and probably other politician which was attacking other politicians the media would point to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more americans to go especially good ole lots of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are

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