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geysers financial survival guide i don't buy a high price on a futures. most of friday as the last time i buy from a fisher price watch guys are. well you know the car they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates of the solong. i mean they're in the smaller boat and it's in a hard pool of ships and it's a. lot tougher than. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of it are not any pinball in that connor.
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consecrations coops seventy five tons and they do it several times a day with a big fleet so no you get an idea why ocean. we have to understand we can not stay still and just. be witness of the deal because. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future can generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. in the heart 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.
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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 in 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 doors there is gold and diamonds. it is also the largest wine cellar in the world with three million bottles laid to
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rest. 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 resistant to explosives. to protect these treasures from fire a special room houses 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. works by rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities
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a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value. of. another secret is the name of the owners of the works. 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
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director i'm own concise 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 one streets just fall out up down and also that the dr i loved. the streets they did so after the opposite sex of the i don't this is a it it once he's called for all dominoes the possibilities from his own press reports read what you already perceive although. 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. said lost it on time look for something else on keep. us from expenses soon and greet us and then and greet. the ticket enough for being given kessel mazumdar because he said to me. why do you appear. on the.
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stage with a sequence of. what degree and that. jump out of the. phone with no question the company don't want to go and if. he does if. he's assumed opiate they're full of want to take a sample pages of poor people just step out and look for music. jennifer what about with sick if you don't say it's a coffee also think of it to do the nickel for. 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
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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 clients special 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. we meet him again in paris in the high class eighth district a stone's throw from the palace. eve bouvier the shipper of the geneva freeport welcomes us to his paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. a dog so i don't think.
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it's very devoted. to. a toy just because you think you force here dave is that but i want to hear that moment get the best unable to do and you will still. keep as it is keeping it is said and designed it is anymore. i could be if it us though it's what i've told you of course deborah. keep your more. to sop is that. by storing and shipping his clients artworks each bouvier gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer. just because he felt. on the mend that album quick wit is yeah pretty quick to leave office in the low share quick wit economy function is a quick wit it is
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a restaurant though and it limited he's right that it is his to get his a vehicle. get to have all through the office toss your way given the us to all who care the they did might just be you know what that they could think it is just. a pawn. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. and the brute the shock. somebody made it up. the it is awful must we put it awful miss you so walk at the root of all. the sad case on a cute since it says show yeah so our quote of the day on the divorce rate in the. us look at the awfulness you said. the straights or lesser sort of all to do more
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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 like. to zip about it kind of deal. 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. because. it's
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a get in it is when you have preserving zone. it. really did go toward the album that was the theme well it. was just this kid they get to see them your diet is good you presume about a lot of shit without this question. how do. you want to because then most of these the nominally father own more famous signatures and in drawing by salvador dali. should go. he didn't. just sit and listen to him he. didn't go through. the region again. miscues is three to six inches to get. everything in the cities really and discuss forcefully and discuss your can discuss
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scale see in this question. or fit to the rules that they were. looking at this and both complete. the feeling of pre-fab it takes it they keep all skill to truly piece of key to. these kids as they go see. you want it. the fish out. is almost by the knee deep in the community bus weekly. 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 entitled. the
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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 dimitry live seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco. the firing of rex tillerson at the state department surprised a few tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with his boss donald trump the nomination of my comp a.o. to replace him is anything but planning.
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yeah. 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 rebuild of love hit it 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 an exceptional collection of paintings and sculptures as compiled in this catalogue. he acquired works by wooden yani. go gun. down. good luck. and even in order to vinci. plussing some picasso's.
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in all 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 explain things i've always thought them out of the many aussie city office in that old year and ima but we are where you are when that corkey quite yet so rigid industry. can y'all do to you know the potentials i may miss should see me through a bit of left it. that you is so. pious i don't know if ok said yes. you know you have the means in your that to keep quite close. to the show a bit of less useful corkers. they when they go there. after. the weekend that. the russian billionaire had filed charges against he.
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get used to 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 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
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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 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 post. so she's to give them a all they're so good all call point to a positive 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 got to look at it. and if you stick with it if it the. boss of course are equal she will tell us who
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informed the post said i don't he she small do you view this is reach. we tried to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of love. 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 gosh is 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. catherine. one of the causes heiresses
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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 lev 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 gasoline with pablo picasso and her mother. back then they lived in the south of france on the hill of an old farmhouse called. because i lived in painted there for twenty years or so. in the fourteenth district of paris we're going to meet.
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this former journalist because i was confident 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 likeness charge a clean sheet image that this they didn't have a lock unity pradelle could be identified and yet illegal deserve to back it they will have it. on the artist's death in one thousand nine hundred 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 . you know order to pay the inheritance duties part of the work was given to the state something known as payment in you. know this you don't play
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this dice on deck and it gets us i think it does all the gloom all of. this is a while. denise. the go it's a little bit of a commander. count tended to. bucket list venkat calendar it doesn't count thank you stone did i say i meet am particularly unusual to watch the show they don't preserve these all close up but we did man and we've done well . but i don't say i counted congeal if it is thought that it is often a disadvantage to them than ash if just. picasso's 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
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administration who represents the family's interests. it is likely that certain works in escape the inventory as they had been hidden by. this is the ought 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 don't earn lawyers apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the bokassa heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. because to understand shine. and have to benefit the. community. don't want this if it is if it is a fair bit of all. the discreet support.
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so if you set off on the promises or asian child saw the cost. to prove his claims he shows us this document which is apparently the receipt for payment for the two portraits. emmy i invest bouvier's company paid eight million dollars to nobody oh trust based at the central bank investor who's capital of liechtenstein. the name of catherine doesn't appear. but investigators discovered that no below trust belonged to a certain katherine blake living at rouge in. paris. the address was no longer her residential address but play 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.
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set the idea. in society killed off before when they call over to make the on demand for the safety of what no one will meet tonight as i suppose they keep on of with have i just though as you don't as i called would initiate c's offset of almost without which then she'd also reset it off with only top business up on anything just a play called when if she did it doesn't use that f.s.s. is there blah said you know a system of mongolian easy play to fit didn't 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. shows be about moderna. but i mean we just had
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to. get a whole puzzle to sammael that mo is shell want to set up for the. eve movie sold 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. while the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also tempura. the. never before and then we get a little farm. kid we should. means he can mow. no roof like that where you don't want to. pilot or look out and.
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never. see what your exit is going to. we contacted catherine lawyer for response to serious accusations here is her reply . does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the problem here with you and we will show you all the great british you are the rock at the back nobody gets busted we need you to get the ball i'm going to go.
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a low. and i'm really happy for a draw and are for the two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one it was also appreciated. just like the review the aussie team's latest edition may go up as we go. you need the good and the bad you need capitalism to work both winners and losers you can't bail out every single bank that gets into trouble you can't bail out every. nice free money you gotta let the system weed out the losers otherwise you end up with you know a state controlled state maintained price fixing regime by the state that resembles all failed such experiments in the past why not just let the free market be the free market. then not ones that. somehow flew off
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