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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. people some of that will want to go out the budget stick to the fall. say get that money at the strike and you had people see they get up to go on to be something else so what about the gets real pleasure to be some city governments who don't make enough money i'll let you go but second off the hook for the simple google search of the city but they can get. away with this at the moment because you need. i said. but this added benefit of obama's because the son of a democrat but he did that to put on. something this is. help us to step up somebody's going to get the most but you know it's the people that voted to see it get the i can get it i did it up and he's good.
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and he had bernie off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. all had to do with. the death of his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders renzo rudolph. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends with you to film a quote on going on what you do more to. make you should take the older predicting one i phone also india's bishop could be of newman and they just put him on disk it's going to be one of them my job. sucks don't call us. to
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put the filmy. as a. militia pushes on the output and is then yes a bit disputed by imagining. that if you. just. set up a so they can see 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. gallery owners collectors and curators of the world's museums. accompanied by his art consultant sixteen eve 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.
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on a say probably factors of the book by last week and most of. us. feel way oh yes how are you going to. bring your. cost plus time. to. set up most of the men on his cell phone is david. clearly troubled by our camera quickly calls his assistant to go reassure him. jews did what you did. did.
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you just like get close attention to his emotion it's the process. but he has no rights regarding our footage to. the missouri. side to it so. 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 mirror who's on tanos because. and also a roy lichtenstein and his aunt you figure 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.
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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 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
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a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stener for his stolen pate. the information that we found was that oscar stettner had been despoiled of a number of personal items a carpet for example of portrait of him as a young man and also a painting by mostly any. and important painting and that was looted from mr stener during the war. the canadian detective began his investigation he discovered that the antique 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.
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the document only indicated that it was a painting signed by the 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 papers kept in the paris archives james palmer came across a clue this telegram. it states that staten or that sent the model jani 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 an alley 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
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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 toured 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 when auction held at christie's in one thousand nine hundred six. the painting was
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intitled seated man with a cane. but who owned it. it was acquired by a shell company based in panama international art center whose registration document is seen here. its rightful owner is unnamed. 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 mod gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basel. james palmer decided to write to our.
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on. young children who've worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million are doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia'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 on the certain circumstances one doesn't use in this. news all news. of. the. leak one of them with. the end all. of the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operation completely outside the local.
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mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never in force and that means the schoolboy minus here continues risking their lives for the money they need to survive on. unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported in a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion united states dollars passed through most. in the amount of time that we've been in the panama papers exposure that's what it
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shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's a fact of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and i'm asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examined. the all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which were attacking other police and the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco in 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
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no one marathons to go especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. well the lawyers for our client contacted. they had. 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
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palmer was not taken in by her response. he filed a lawsuit against the helen a mod 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 art center and nobody else not the helen gallery nor david now that bought the painting at an auction held at christie's. thing 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 model yani painting despite his constant denials. the detective had scored
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a point. 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. 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 a vote 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
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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 a laugh i mean i'm at the end on a. fact. international.
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they all the economy going. i mean a mad. game. to clear his clients even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staten or. don't be a pussy because. it was a bit. of unease. only a forty is extinct. what. the. in physically explicit. see and then you see i meant by. this. we had only a few minutes to film the painting. but as the handlers turned the work around we
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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 staten 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
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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 office is what's on for example were to provide us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones are store pretty quickly. for the swiss art. dealer's 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's all for say. i mean. a. french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he is on the other side of the fence. point i'm also
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legionnaires. your company i know that i don't feel says we should be more in a mode to be on a softer you the hall is. doing is aside the so. awful i can. reproduce your it don't. give us the whole supper related or the actual sat and this thread because of 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 as were invited. was a. little. cameo started. on the floor with the
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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. made she said she always recall exact. a little. more than his heels. to. there's a little blue book or a little bit over the last love for you didn't see it and got to this is illegal. in the us is. also got all a slew of also where that those used these are not there is they were that all. of us also. read up with it the this is us is restore. the fifty most yahoo. they all took was it also promote it if it's more as far as
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d.j.'s orders go the distance or to the store. 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. zone point. is a nice house from purview more talking all. of us from
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a. source just took is risky saw provençal in your memory called. lonely but you don't remember. or. need mum wash your skin saw it on sick but don't let me complete. leboeuf why. they don't play for money to. 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 for much stricter regulations.
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new schemes with. going to need. 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.
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chose seemed wrong. but all in all just don't call. me old yet to shape our disdain comes to advocate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. going to be. a political you like going to school you know to simulate it to still give up
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young children who worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million are doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia'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 much as anything this. is all news. eat with us in the end all. the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local.
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mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never equals and that means the school boy minus here continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on. not. even.
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the headlines on international wiki leaks julian assange has reportedly been granted an ecuadorian. with the country's foreign minister. the release of an. alleged with russia we discussed the transcript with. a russian.

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