it's an experience like nothing else i want to do because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game my great to one more chance for. peace this morning to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. in the heart of the swiss on the shores of lake geneva. in the land of banks and

discretion you'll discover the most secretive place in switzerland. in the middle of a warehouse complex a stone's throw from the border with france 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. bottles worth five hundred thousand two thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are earthquake and the doors resistant to explosives. and 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 best priceless works of art thought to be worth tens of billions of dollars. 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 photos i'm not at best. case all false a. mean cos i mean 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 tennessee it was really sad to see a live. show on streets. and all set that. they did so after. effects of the i don't this is a it. it was a do it this film is all press reports read what you already perceive it will 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. said lost it on the look us up on the. bus from exposes to and greet us and then i'm getting. the ticket are enough for me to so mr because he said to me. well why do

you appear. on the fifth. estate with a sequence. once again that go. under the. form and you can not force them to come so they don't want to get me if. she does if i. look at the olympic cycle example. should a poor people just step out and look for missing. jennifer about within the sun for the sake of you know sits a coffee don't skip think of it to do the nickel for don't see it. hear the watchword 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 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 multi-millionaire. we meet him again in paris in the high class eighth district a stone's throw from the palace. 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. 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. keep was it the keeping it is said designing is any more it gives. you billie always it doesn't feel as though it's one of the year of cause to keep your more. 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 he felt. on demand that album quick witted pretty quick to leave

office in the low share quick wit economy function is a quick wit it is a restaurant though. he she is right there that it is just too good is a vehicle. good to have almost without us toss your way given us the whole bouquet of the they did my 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. a little bit the shock. somebody made about. the it is awful mr weaver it is awful miss you so. to. get on a cute since you yeah so why did they do. in the.

book what they. said. this race or less 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. and i have to tell you we could. because if i thought i'd try 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 as you know on the album.

the it is a phone you have preserving its own play its. australian did a scapegoat or dealt with you only. if you're just a skilled they get your seat and your diet is good he said prison what about a lot of shit to me that this question isn't one. i look all straight taking in what it does then most of it is nominally father on more famous signatures and enjoying by salvador dali. i should go. he didn't b.s. you just sit and listen to him he. didn't go through. any reasoning domus cases three to six inches to get a. simple filling in the city's only crime in this question.

and discuss your can discuss from the scale seeing this question oh or fit of a public rule is that they don't. even look at this and both can rely on your list of oversee a feeling of prophetic. to truly peace acacias key piece of. this gets us to go see. the fish out of a clear is almost by the knee deep in the community specifically. according to inside information these works are worth several million dollars. an art gallery with a view of the loo for quite a showcase. at it. but eve 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 dimitry. seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco.

when i was choked some seemed wrong. but old roles just don't hold. me you get to shape out these days it comes to educate and in gains from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. there's. a lot of celebrities to leave the victim outside to be stunned when a few fulfill something funny but i think it's just that my life. when i left that i sat next to me with an arm and i'm having a lot of and i love me. a little show on the earth but obviously got a book here slow. and. easy to

take. the. country of the only muslim up female he's going to pick up on the set of them and just let me have a difficult moment. and these years i'm able thought until i don't. know how shamal think i'm going to be the gun that they'll be if admission from the . politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to listen.

to the right to be cross with what before three in the morning can't be good but i'm interested always in the lawyers and my colleagues. question. 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 monaco. movie and ribbon 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 rudy giuliani. go gun. 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. why the many us. not all. but we. know that corky. they all do appear other people should be three people of left. you know even the year that. the machine. they were in the day. after. the weekend.

the russian billionaire had filed charges against even. get used to him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claimed to have paid double what his collection was were. 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. eve 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 movie's 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. in a socialist to give him a all there so could all call point to a positive order this year anywhere you want i mean you at your level of your idiot it is of course. going to stop because i don't get it. and if you would defend the. boss because i recall she will put us on oxygen for them to post said i

don't he she small do you view that's enjoyed. 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. katherine done one of the cosmos 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 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. here is gathering with pablo picasso and her mother. back then they lived in the south of france on the hill of an old farmhouse called note. 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 checking picasso's confidant she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist. body of work. so the ship was a like is charge a clean sheet image that the cib. yellow gold is that he did back then we'll have it. on the artist 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 of. this is a while. ago it's a little bit of a commander. book could be this is. it doesn't count thank you stone does not meet. watch the co they don't preserve these old clothes. but i say i can answer. this all this attention to better than a shift just sit back and that really it in terms of closure. 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 but the director of the picasso administration who represents the families interests. it is likely that certain works escaped 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 eve movie defends himself and he claims that he did indeed pay katherine you done earlier is apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the percussive heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. because to understand shine the community of a chasm that benefit the caribou in a community demand i mean done what is often is if there's a fear of it of all. you know it doesn't mean that the disc can support it

just because fair 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. 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 catherine you've done. behind the offshore company it was indeed the because so heiress who received the payment from eve movie and in front of our

camera the art dealer went even further. someone does sophisticated good of what he's got a set idea. and so ship the kid off on a call over. on demand for this. no want to get to me tonight as i suppose they keep on of with have i just. said it off we don't need to talk business up on anything just a play could have been if you think it was f.s.s. said you know only an easy way to fit it all dipping following the said. eve movie 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. moderna. were said to. that mall is shell want to set up for the. drawing painter and his model. 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. also. it. as a never before. popular. kid we should. surely. know want to. look out it.

never. ceases to exist. 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. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were a south and taken your last to turn. your act caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to

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