art of the swiss on the shores of lake geneva. in the land of banks and discretion you will discover the most secretive place in switzerland. in the middle of a warehouse complex a stone's throw from the border with france is the geneva freeport. watched by surveillance cameras and surrounded by barbed wire fences this complex is traditionally a custom zone where merchandise is stored before being exported abroad. but today it has become a permanent storage site with sixty thousand square meters of space rented by the city of geneva to transporters or to private individuals to safeguard their assets . behind these anonymous double locked doors there is gold and diamonds.

it is also the largest wine cellar in the world with three million bottles laid to rest in. kong cleared bottles worth five hundred thousand two thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are anti earthquake and the doors are resistant to explosives. and to protect these treasures from fire a special room house has hundreds of extinguishers that can be activated at any moment. another reason the freeport take so many precautions is because behind its gates rest priceless works of art thought to be worth tens of billions of dollars it's perhaps the world's largest museum but a museum no one can visit. the geneva freeport

is one of europe's best kept secrets it stores works by picasso rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value of little i am not at best wow that is all false a sissy. i mean cost money and another secret is the name of the owners of the works. don't. i guess he said. recently a number of cases have tainted the institution's name the looting of jewish assets money laundering tax fraud it's hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport. the geneva freeport is an eldorado for art dealers wealthy heirs and fraudsters it's where they do their business hidden from view.

one man agreed to open the doors of the freeport to us eve movie with his managing director. he runs the world's biggest company in the transport and storage of artworks that will see it was really sad to see a little later on streets just fall out and also if the doctor or lawyer. they did so f. up was it said they all don't this is a it did once the school told us it is from your press report your daughter you study percivale go up. every day dozens of priceless artworks enter or leave the store rooms managed by eve bouvier's company. there's even a special workshop to pack and prepare the works for shipment. that lost it on the looks. he. doesn't expose his tone and greet us and then agree.

that are good enough for me guess i'm assuming too because he said to me. why do you appear. on the. stage with a sequence of. what degree and that. just put out of the. form of no question that comes i don't want to get it. if you know if i. could get the bottle of milk to cook a simple pizza hut in a porpoise. then look losing. jennifer about within the sun for her sake if you don't say it's a coffee don't see it think of it to do the nickel for don't see it. either the watch word is secrecy. eve bouvier was originally a shipper but he transformed his old shipping company not to look cute founded in one thousand fifty nine into an art market multinational. it is now present in

geneva luxembourg and singapore. the man nicknamed the freeport king had a great idea to earn client loyalty his company would not only pack and ship artworks it would provide in geneva twenty thousand square meters of storage space along with framing and restoration workshops. it also offers its klesha rooms in which to admire their assets or negotiate sales dealers gallery owners and buyers can thus meet in total discretion. today the former shipper has become a multimillionaire. and we meet him again in paris eve movie the shipper of the geneva freeport welcomes us. to his parents' home

a richly decorated and furnished apartment. so i don't. want. to. know you. just because you foresee a day visit much more than your moment get the best unable to do and you will still get keifer that the keepin it is said designing is any more it gives. it to likeability always it doesn't feel as though it's one of the year of cause to keep your mood to put you. to sup is that. by storing and shipping his clients artworks each bouvier gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer. just because you felt some of them demanded album quick witted pretty quick to

leave office in the limo ship quick would come a function as you pick which it is us who all of us try to shop here and it limited he's right there that it is his who got his a vehicle. he ever could. get to have almost without us the us your way given the us to all who care the the i just be you know what that they could think. she is just. a pawn. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. for most show a little bit the shock. somebody in the notebook that commits all the it is awful must believe it is awful miss you so walk at the root of all good. to say well he's on a cute since you yeah so where did they get the divorce rate in the film just look at the awfulness. said. interest rates are lesser sort of old do more good

enough. thanks to the network he's built up the businessman has even opened a gallery on the cable ten the antique dealers district one of paris's most prestigious addresses he takes us there. he wants to show us how well established he is and how he buys and sells some of the most renowned names in painting and sculpture. and i have to tell you we. physically but i try to do all. the gallery director greets us. the gallery houses significant and very expensive works this marble sculpture of eve is by or done it's already been reserved by an asian client. so as you know.

the it is when you have preserving. it. did a scapegoat or dealt with you only. if you just it's good they will see them your diet is good he said prison what about a lot of shit with this question. how to kill street taking what it does then most of it is nominally father own more famous signatures and drawing by salvador dali. should go. to. his generals because you just sit and listen to him he. didn't go through. the region again. miscues is the city just didn't get the. simple feeling in the cities only in disco. and discuss sean can discuss one of the few scattered

saying this question apo or fit of above the rules that they don't work well and. evoke a multi-book of this and both can be done you just have a home seat a feeling of perfect at the exit they keep all skip the truly peace acacias key piece of. these kids as they go see. if you want it but if you see the the fish out of a clear is on a cousin on the other knee deep in the community bus or deeply. according to inside information these works are worth several million dollars. an art gallery with a view of the louvre quite a showcase. at it. but yves bouvier's good fortune is today soured by a series of lawsuits. entitled

. the billionaire and the cursed picasso's it was a look into some of the darker practices of the art market. the allegations made by low point were such. still give out food for the homeless. because you don't really feel like you being in it. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me change of this book.

the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into paix these are the countries with we korea colonies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very often almost a decade how good are the results she saw effect in new york city's will by the people a gathering which the wild are all good people with your daughter julie a choice letting three hundred billion will be she is at the top climate as i mean to for a legal. challenge nothing more than this economy was always the case the family cannot get in place while the same measure is still in place to one of the consequences who's to weaken bluebirds lewdness moodle who will first be one of those loosely truthy consider is the consequences are actually quite

acceptable to the decision making. the story goes back to two thousand and three when eve bouvier met the russian billionaire a close friend of prince albert. is the owner of the soccer club a s. monaco. movie and ribbon of love hit it off immediately. here they are at a costume party on the billionaire's private greek island. for ten years eve movie help his friend put together an exceptional collection of paintings and sculptures as compiled in this catalog. he acquired works by odeon e. go gung. ho dumb. one. and even leonardo da vinci.

plus some picasso's. in zero thirty eight works for the mind boggling sum of just over one billion eight hundred million dollars. but their friendship would come to a brutal end during a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explains. the amount of them in the us obviously not all year. but we are where you are when that corkey. industry. they all the other people should to me table of live in that you is sort. of ok said yes you know even though you're the king quite early fusion to mature a bit of leisure so corker is destructive when they go there. after your hot to the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against he.

used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claimed to have paid double what his collection was worth. take for example this painting number six by mark rothko. we managed to get a hold of the documents of the transaction. eve bouvier bought it from wealthy landowners in the border region for eighty three million five hundred thousand dollars. a few weeks later as this invoice shows the painting was sold to an offshore company accent delight which belongs to the russian billionaire. acquired for eighty three point five million dollars the rothko was sold for one hundred forty million. profit on the deal almost seventy million dollars. with this picasso flute player with a naked woman the profit was even more staggering. purchased on october seventh two

thousand and ten for three and a half million it was sold on to dimitri ribble of live the very next day for twenty five million a profit of twenty one million in twenty four hours. eve movies profits were colossal. but his attorney sweeps the accusations aside he believes there was nothing illegal in his clients' profits and that the russian billionaire should have been shrewder. whole pushed out. of each. kid may all their so-called all call point the apostle of order this is sort of you do it directly with your one i mean you at your level of. it is of course. to stop gotta look at it. and if you wish to fit it. inform do post said i don't he she small do you view this is really just. we

tried to contact the russian billionaire he preferred not to comment. was indicted in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen for fraud and complicity in money laundering the investigation is still ongoing. the billionaire posed with these to cautious which like the rest of his collection he bought from eve bouvier the russian is beaming with joy. he thought he had done good business with these two portraits of checking because his last wife spanish woman with a fan and woman arranging her hair. but an unexpected figure came along to spoil the party. katherine. one of picasso's heiresses jacqueline's daughter. she for. to complaint for theft and suspected eve movie of being involved in the fencing of the two paintings sold to rebuild over live eight

drawings. a judge in paris issued an international warrant horses all over those pablo picasso and her mother. because i lived in painted there for twenty years or so. in the fourteenth district of paris we're going to meet peter dupont. this former journalist was jacqueline picasso's confidant she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist body of work. in that. so worship was a like this charge a clean sheet image that this seemed that it will have. limited pradelle because she could be identified and he yelled all deserve to be back then we'll have it.

on the artist's death in one thousand nine hundred seventy three then on jackson's death thirteen years later almost two thousand paintings seven thousand drawings and one thousand two hundred sculptures were officially recorded. you know order to pay the inheritance duties part of the work was given to the state something known as payment and you. know this you don't let this die so inject into guesses that he getting it done all the gloom all. the city while. i've been is a horse the crow it's a little bit of a commander. callin tended to a blue book with mr van cat cat on that it doesn't count thank you stone did i say i meet am particularly unusual to watch and they go they don't preserve these or close it up over it man and we've done well on purcell but i have.

that. works went unrecorded after the painter died they were probably hidden away during the inventory for the inheritance. but that is what this report suggests by the director of the picasso administration who represents the family's interests. it is likely that escape the inventory as they had been hidden. for the two disputed paintings. accused of being involved in the theft of the two portraits. defends himself and declares that he did indeed pay katherine you don't . apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. because to understand shine. and have to

a benefit they. don't want this often is if this affair of it. says. that the disc in support. of yes it does on the. ocean chance or the cost. to prove his claims he shows us this document which is apparently the receipt for payment for the two portraits. m.-e. i invest bouvier's company paid eight million dollars to nobody oh trust based at the central bank investor who's couple of lichtenstein. the name of catherine who doesn't appear. but investigators discovered that no below trust belonged to a certain. living at rouge in paris. the address was no longer her residential address but blay was none other than the

married name of catherine you've done. behind the offshore company it was indeed the because so heiress who received the payment from eve. and in front of our camera the art dealer went even further. someone does sophisticated to. set the idea. in society queued up before on a call over midday on demand for. no one to get to me tonight as i suppose they keep on of with have i missed though as you don't the second would seize off season four months without which then she also reset it off with only time and business up on anything just a play called when if she does it doesn't use that f.s.s. system law said you know she's demo baloney an easy play such a terrible dipping following the supposed to go to left of his gun. eve bouvier had to pay several million dollars in bail to have his international arrest warrant lifted. and still facing an indictment for fencing stolen goods the arguers made

new accusations regarding the picasso heiresses financial scams. when you know what all the. rows be bought moderna. were said to. that mall is shall want to sit to. eat this because so drawing painter and his model to katherine. once again no mention of her name the money was paid to an offshore company in panama this time. well the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also temperature just had to do. it. on these. never before then guess what will follow you. kid with your.

music he can moan you. know what is true if i were you don't want to i should have. never. say never to exist get to know. i don't. we contacted katherine who turns lawyer for response to serious accusations here is her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast . in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with the tax haven 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. documents were examined. me all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was his paper. and probably other politician which were 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

a lot 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. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million are doing so today. this culture led to the development of the libya's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances one does anything this. is all new for.

any one of them with us in the end all. from the six years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never of course and that means the school boy minus continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive.

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