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and yet burning off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. call had to. submit his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends mr to fill me on what you do more to. take you to take the older predefined one off also it is the ship could be of new money they dispose just want. to put the filmy. doesn't.
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need this to buy a machine yet but some possibility. that it. will set up a so they. will 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. thank you gallery owners collectors and curators of the world's museums. accompanied by his art consultant sixteen yves bouvier 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. 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 be just like it most of them just to please them it's the bosses. but he has no rights regarding our footage. such that 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 ods renown dealers. here's their stand at art basel by calder mirror those fun tanos and because. and also a royal lichtenstein and is going to see 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. may be the reason. david no mudd prefers to be discreet is because one of the
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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. 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 stettner for his stolen pate. 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 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 the 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
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a painting signed by the do jani portrait of a man. but detective had no idea what the painting looked 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 stetson 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 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 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 toward 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
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a cane. but who owned it. 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 homer 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 helina mod gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basel. james palmer decided to write tour.
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how would you and will show the great game the great game you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down going let's go. a low as i want to you know and i'm really happy to join that for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet this special one it was also cliche of me to just say the rino p.r.t. teams latest edition make up is bigger than me but i just say look. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guess of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah mag gallery and
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helen him 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 the 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 her 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 nobody else not the head gallery nor david not maad that bought the painting at an
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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 painting despite his constant denials. the detective had scored a point. and now he just had to find out where 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. this 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
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was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport where there are no mad family are estimated to have of both 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 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
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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 and torn is a on the economy going to. mean a mad. game. to clear his clients even further blow or even raise. doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer stetson or. mr states if they.
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don't be. given these. forty is extinct. what. the. in physically explicit. see let us down and you see i mean by. this. 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 s. beyond. 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 or at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are so so that you know if the prosecutor's offices what sort of for example were to bring. us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones restore pretty quickly. for the swiss art
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dealers lawyer there's no point in dreaming no one will know for years what's really stored in the freeport. shuttles i'm not happy that he's all. so. french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he's on the other side of the fence. people following of them also region if. you combine all of that i don't feel says we know him all to be a softer you befall it so i. don't use aside the more boffo i can. reproduce it don't. just give us the whole supper related all the actual satin diskette because in the
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discussion. in geneva the mood 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. unit of yours and family have started. on the floor where 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 money. made he said you're always doing more exact. a little. more of it shows a large group of us with the visibly blue blue that all but over with all that love
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appropriate created incentives and got to visit in the. us is. also got all a slew of also where that visit is a notice they were that all. of us also. read up with it if this is us it restores. the city's most your who. was a also promote it if it's more as far as your u.s. soldiers go the distance are to go off. 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.
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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. point. is a nice house from pervy order to mocking all. of us from a. source just a kiss whiskey saw the guns are in your memory called. lonely but you don't remember. need mom wash your skin saucy don't say but don't i mean complete. leboeuf why.
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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. for the. new schemes we're. going to meet. needs to. feel more. secure.
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