tv Documentary RT March 17, 2018 1:30am-2:00am EDT
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this. incredible city cost a skeleton officer more only to me see your god that means us your forces are. only exposed to the whole. well fed up on the show. all said that's it on e s it's a shit to each cement think you need on the contrary i don't. despise. the news could have been if he didn't have a blanket god he's also to honest to devide he's got his multiple fineness. we meet up again with even 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 how
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does he fall something that will want to go out to a bunch of sick people. say that money is the strike and you had people see it up recall to me something else or what. took. place in tucson city governments who don't make enough money as you know but check out the show before us which was it but they couldn't get. the second it's at the moment you need. i said. but they said it went up at about obama's because it's a metal. plate that if. something. helped us to step up somebody might get the most but you know what's that been like for that to see again. but he did it up and he's good.
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and he had bernie off his private jet but we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. all had to do with a. subject with his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders arends a rudolph. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends with you to feel make what you do more to. make you should take the older predicting one off also it is the should be of whom they just put him on disc if you want. to put to fill me. just. because it is all good the point is that yes i'd be disputed by many yet but
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suggest that if you. set up a so they could see the sale of 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 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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to build up all the automation on a say i probably factors of that but alas i think most of. us oh yeah we are still way out yes how are you doing. your. boss was. 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'd. need. to be just like it most of them showed his emotion at the buses. but
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he has no rights regarding our footage. just. like the likes of. 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 odds renown dealers. here's their stand at art basel by calder mirror who's fun tanos and because. and also a roy lichtenstein and his own two feet all of them stars of modern art. in the mud 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.
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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 a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stener for his
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stolen paint. 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 an important painting and 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 they've 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
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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 staten or had 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 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
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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 an auction held at christie's in one thousand nine hundred six. the painting was entitled seated man with a cane. but who owned it.
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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 maud gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basle. james palmer decided to write tour. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our
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church help conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that and if that's known as the end then i think you'll hear that it just didn't think. it's both. the far right. isn't just on the march it's taking violent my daughter's action i don't like it. you know you know i see these organizations which are usually split into which we take different names how do you view that. in. a complex way richard basham.
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well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah mag gallery and helen i'm 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 are 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 our 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 art center and
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nobody else not the head gallery nor david now model 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. was judiciary issued
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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 not 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 and there are. in the 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 shows the painting in an exhibition room. we would never meet the art dealers themselves but they did a quarter of an exclusive uing of the painting
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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. but they won't. make a. laugh i mean a mad. idea act. international . on the economy going to action there for life i mean a mad. game. to clear his client's even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting
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ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. they don't. fully is extra question. what. the. in fairly explicit. and then you said. yes. 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 staten or.
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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 at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are. so that you know if the prosecutor's offices what sort of for example were to provide us with information on all those paintings we could pretty
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quickly tell them which ones were store 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. little's i'm not. so quick. a. french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he is on the other side of the fence. following a dumb also region if. you combine all that and all says we should see more in amman to be on a softer you before. the journey is aside. more before i can. reproduce it don't.
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give us the whole supper related or the actual satin diskette because in the discussion. in geneva the model jani 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 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 man. measures he said at last your easy to ignore exact. a little.
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more than his heels router. to this little girl but over all that love for you to see this guy who was available. to us is. also got almost love also. as it is a note that there were that all. of. us feel. read up with it the deficit restored. if it's the most your who. also promotes it if it was dollars to your soldiers 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
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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. is a nice. source just took is risky saw the guns are in your memory. but you don't remember. i mean. why.
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they don't get their 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. new schemes we're. going to need. to. feel more. secure.
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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. no not once not. enough loos off not done one might have been a tough the finish was enough. when seeking out he needs.
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