the geneva freeport welcomes us to his paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. so i don't. want. to. tolerate just because you foresee a day visit but i want to hear that moment get the boat unable to do and you will still get keifer that the keepin it is said designing is any more it gives you. a few billion was it to feel as though it's one of the year of cause to keep your mood to put you. to sup is that you. by storing and shipping his client's artworks each bouvier gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer. just because he felt. demanded album quick witted pretty quick to leave office in

the law no shit creek would take away from finishing quick witted is a restaurant though. he. did it guess who got his a vehicle. get to have almost without us toss your way given the list of all who could be the did by just be you know what to take it they got it. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. love almost a little bit the shark. and the book of goodness all the it is awful mr wood is awful miss you so walk at the root of all. he's on a cute since you yeah so what did they do when the devil in the.

but look what they. said. the straits of us are sort of all to 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 this. is it. and i have to tell you we take it because if about it to do all. the gallery director greets us. the gallery houses significant and very expensive works this marble sculpture of eve is by august or done it's already been reserved by an asian client. so.

it is when you have preserving zone. it. did a scapegoat or dealt with you only. if you're just a skilled they will see that your diet is good he said prison what about a lot of shit without this question. how to cure all street taking what it does then most of it is nominally father own more famous signatures and in trying by salvador dali. a sure goal. he did it. to be just interesting to him he. didn't go through. the region again. miscues is the signatures to get. in there. the city's only crime and discuss forcefully and discuss sean can discuss

some of the scale this question abo or fit of above the rules that they don't. even look at this and both can put on your list of all of them see a feeling of prophetic sit back keep all skip to truly peace acacias key piece of. this gets us to go see. if you want it but if you see the fish out of a clear it's almost by the knee deep in the community bus or a quick. 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. in

may two thousand and fifteen an article about him appeared in luke one entitled desire on the billionaire and the cursed because. it was a look into some of the darker practices of the art market. the allegations made by low point were such that the magazine was found guilty of infringement of privacy. the hard hitting article tells of a violent clash between movie and one of the richest men on the planet a russian dimitri. seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco. joining me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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 get then in the 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 were examined. me all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. and probably other politician which was tough at that other politician 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 marriage of several special good ole walks of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. the story goes back to two thousand and three when even the russian billionaire a close friend of prince albert. is the owner of the soccer club monaco. and he did off immediately. they are at a costume party on the billionaire's private greek island. for ten years eve movie

help his friend put together and accept. no collection of paintings and sculptures as compiled in this catalog. he acquired works by woody vianney. go gung. ho down. 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 many are. not all here. but we are where you are when that corkey. industry. they all do to you other people should see me through

a bit of live in that you assume. that your superiors you know you have the vision you are the. early fusion to mature people of leisure so corker. they were the day. after. the weekend that. the russian billionaire had filed charges against even. used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claim 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. billionaire. acquired for eighty three point five million dollars the rothko was sold for one hundred forty million. eve bouvier's 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 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 client's profits and that the russian billionaire should have been shrewder. whole pushed out.

of each. to give him a all there so could all call point to a part of the world over this is did you know that you were here when i mean you at your level of. it is of course. going to stop there. and if you wish to defend the. boss because i. said i don't he she small do you view this is really. we trying to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of. preferred not to comment. eve bouvier was indicted in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen for fraud and complicity in money laundering the investigation is still ongoing. but in the collection there were two other paintings that would cause trouble. in september two thousand and fifteen the billionaire posed with these two cautious

which like the rest of his collection he bought from him. bouvier the russian is beaming with joy. he thought he had done good business with these two portraits of jack keane because his last wife spanish woman with a fan and woman arranging her hair. but an unexpected figure came along to spoil the party. catherine. one of the causes heiresses jacqueline's daughter. she found a complaint for theft and suspected each movie of being involved in the fencing of the two paintings sold to rebuild of love along with fifty eight drawings. a judge in paris issued an international warrant for bouvier's arrest. the art dealer was suddenly being sought by police forces all over the world. years gathering with pablo picasso and her mother. back then they lived in the

south of france on the hill of an old farmhouse called notre dame dizzy. 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 comfy don't she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist body of work. total cook who do you think then ended up in the high position met john that so much it was it came she may think that this seemed. iraq unity pradelle because she could be identified and he yelled all this left he did back it then we'll have it. on the artist's death in one thousand. seventy three then

and jackson's death thirteen years later almost two thousand paintings seven thousand drawings and one thousand two hundred sculptures were officially recorded . in order to pay the inheritance duties part of the work was given to the state something known as payment in you. know this you. get all the little mall in. the city while. the cook. book. it. did not meet. the co you don't use of these or close it up but we did mine and we've done well. but i.

tend to do better than ash if just. because those body of work was enormous. some of his 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 families interests. it is likely that escape the inventory as they had been hidden by. this is going to be the case 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 catherine you. were lowers apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the heiress but to a trust fund and offshore company based in

a tax haven. really cold and close to the stench signed up on the bill will. have to benefit the job you. demand i mean don't want this if it is if there's a fear of it of all. the dust and the disk can support it just because fair share of yes it does on the. ocean chainsaw 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 capital of lichtenstein. the name of catherine who done doesn't appear. but investigators discovered that no below trust belonged to a certain katherine blake living at rouge black in paris. the

address was no longer her residential address but play was none other than the married name of captain 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 good of what he. said . and so should the kid up before when they call over midday on demand for the safety of with no one to get to me tonight as i step out on a vote have asked though as you don't the second would initiate says offset of almost without which then she also reset it off without it into a business up on anything just a plate of bin if she did it doesn't use f.s.s. is them law said you are a system of one organising play to fit didn't such a terrible dipping following the separated to go with his gun. eve bouvier had to

pace. several million dollars in bail to have his international arrest warrant lifted. and still facing indictment for fencing stolen goods has made new accusations regarding the picasso heiresses financial scams. and you know what all the. moderna. said to. that mall is shall want to sit and. eat this because so drawing painter and his model to. once again no mention of her name the money was paid to an offshore company in panama this time. while the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also tempura. it. as

a never before. popular. kid with ship. means he can loan. no roof i will use you just as busy don't want to. look out it. never. sees about you if that is not true i don't see. we contacted katherine utahns lawyer for response to serious accusations here is her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast. it's being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this a serious diplomatic opening or merely. south korea appears to welcome this is the

same apply to washington. grant citizenship to wiki leaks chief julian assange she's been holed up in the country's embassy in london for more than five years. the couple reports suggest twitter. undesirable uses his political content it doesn't like. president putin talks korea saying currently a winner in the escalating crisis on the peninsula.

well welcome to our national live from moscow i'm daniel hawking's on where we are today you're very welcome with us this hour as you know in a song she has been granted citizenship by a quote or a country that has been hosting him and its embassy in london since twenty twelve that's off he requested political asylum and i say it should couldn't explain further what the move could mean for the wiki leaks chief. unfortunately for julian assange continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now tonight we have got a confirmation of this here is what the ecuadorian foreign minister had to say. this naturalization was granted on the twelfth of december twenty seventeen the

ecuadorian government is empowered to crunch nationality status to the protected person the big question remains what happens in terms of the british officials reaction's who have been clear over and over again that if he does walk out of the embassy they would still arrest him because of him having breached his bail conditions at the time of what he initially went into the embassy obviously the biggest fear for julian assange is continues to be possible extradition to the u.s. where of course he is wanted for all the works that we can leaks have been doing in terms of exposing the actions of the american government we do know that ecuadorian officials have requested that britain allow for julian assange to have diplomatic immunity or diplomatic status and this has been a big no from the u.k. who said they're not going to go ahead with this kind of plan we did hear from the officials of ecuador that they're going to continue and have been negotiating with britain still to try to find a solution as we know also the foreign minister has said that the situation with

julian assange has become unsustainable and it's time to move his case along now we here at r.t. have spoken to the people in ecuador about what they think of his case let's take a look from with your level of it because he does need human rights support and i think that's what the government will give him there is also a health issue because we know he's enclosed in a very small space there are many things that cross my mind is he healthy enough to stay there. a muzzle in a level of the. as a refugee policy and suppose you mean this. all of this of course despite the fact that the initial case carried out by sweden and followed by sweden in terms of sexual allegations made against him has been dropped so the reaction there would be that that would potentially open the gate for him to have more freedom ability in this whole case but that hasn't happened obviously of course we saw bodies such as the united nations say that has been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy here in london it could be seen as arbitrary detention so certainly it's

a very complicated case of course that has been going on for years and years but it seems that this is a step forward so we're going to have to wait and see whether this particular latest step ends up leading anywhere where we discuss the options for a song with george barter a political activist and social justice campaigner you think the political stakes for the u.k. will outweigh any legal concerns. the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions for the charges in terms of the case in sweden that has now been dropped but absolutely maybe there will be an extradition attempt and as various kind of international bodies have found when they looked into it the chance of julian assange is getting a free and fair trial in the u.s. of minimal with the robert miller investigation and the allegations about collusion between the trunk campaign and wiki leaks there's obviously. a sort of politicize

ation element potentially around this case with bricks it looming in the u.k. obviously wants a positive treatment from the u.s. as it leaves europe and in terms of potential trade deal you know so there are concerns of this will this will be treated politically rather than legally. if you wondering why you don't get many retreats that could be because the social network censoring you by imposing a so-called shadow ban the movie comes to light in the latest undercover of us to geisha and by project veritas one. of the shadows of thought that from one. of three show she know what she should. think that i want to. know what's. well the group behind the revelations has quite a controversial reputation it's been accused of getting information out

infiltrating organizations under false pretenses veritas has also been criticised for heavily editing material to deliver its point its founder james o'keefe is a conservative political activist and some say he has a strong political agenda was a miracle and has more on the revelations both the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees who've been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitter's policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks controversial users and another employee says twitter is trying to ban a certain way of talking online so they're going to go. through the things that. we've seen and you know. it's good to see them in the mindset to. believe twitter can also apparently dig into its users profiles and conversation history to figure

out their political leanings and then determine whether or not they should be banned and another issue that came up was julian assange just twitter account and the fact that it was deleted without explanation a couple weeks ago but an employee was asked about it and he did hint at one possible reason. why. we can't verify if these are real twitter employees or not and if they are they definitely could be lying but we've requested twitter's comments on all of this but we haven't heard from them as yet but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further. the executive director of project veritas russell verney spoke to all to you about the techniques used by the group but with revelations. it is true overstepping it well if they're sharing information with the federal government voluntarily i think i would think they would be overstepping however whenever you're ready as goes onto a website they agree to the policies of that website and if you look through the

per proxy policies of twitter it gives them the right to every bit of information you have opposed to you do we didn't know they have the right to sell that information given away so we're giving away an awful lot to these companies when they come out and publicly say they want to be the public forum for free speech yet they're censoring free speech and they're slanting what free speech can or can't be heard and then there's a problem where the cover journalists have gone in and used to use deception to get it we want people in a candid moment not when they're looking at a microphone and giving you their talking points but when they're speaking from there we have never ever issued a retraction for any of the projects we have reported on we have never been found to have doctored any video we do edit time we take a thought or

a statement from somebody and keep it in total context. the u.s. army's looking for help to access and respond to foreign social media platforms with a system so sophisticated it can even understand a new slang an ad for r t experts was posted on a site for federal contractors saudis kind of open looks into the story. now the ad was posted on the website of government opportunities and it calls for people to work at the request of the u.s. army intelligence and security command and the task they're asking for would be the creation of software that can read social media posts and determine and distinguish the positive from the negative now they're looking for the software to go from there and create replies in the same tone as the original now the software actually is requested to include a number of languages among them farsi korean and russian now this is quite interesting in light of the fact that all throughout media allegations have been

made that in russia there are troll farms or armies of bots being deployed to influence the united states vs social media but this advertisement talking about hiring someone on behalf of at the request of intelligence in the united states it essentially calls and it appears as if the u.s. army is looking to do the same thing the very same thing that russia is accused of doing now we have actually reached out to the pentagon for information about this and clarification about what activities this potential software would be deployed for what kinds of operations and such we have not received a reply. but let's cross live now to chris kitsa founder of unseen encrypted internet service thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today first things first i guess why would the u.s. only needs such a piece of software can you think of any reasons well let's look at what is not in the propose.