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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 anti earthquake and the doors resistant to explosives. and to protect these treasures
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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. rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value. of case all fall say. another secret is the name of the owners of the works. don't keep. i
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guess he said that give us i 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 all montez ice he runs the world's biggest company in the transport and storage of art works doesn't see it well so i see a little lead on streets just fall out and also at the doctor i love. one street they did so after the opposite sex and they all don't this is a if they don't seize control of dominoes the possibilities for me all plus the
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pleasure do what you really 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 some post on keep. us from expenses soon and greet us ans integrate. the ticket enough for weekend kissel mazumdar because he said to me . why do you appear. on t.l.c. to. stay with a sick was. to set the mood do what degree and. just get out of the. phone with no question the company don't want to. you know if i.
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put you at the olympic cycle a simple feature of singapore public. then look losing. china for about with an asylum for the sick if you don't say it's a coffee also think of it to do the nickel for. the watchword is secrecy. yves 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.
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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 paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. not a dog so i don't think seven. it is safe to put. a toy just because you foresee a day visit but i want to hear about the moment get up and able to do and you will still get up. keefe is it the keeping it is said designing is any more it gives.
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you billy always a pleasure to 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 you felt. them demanded 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 she can it limited he she. it it is his to get his a vehicle. he ever could. get to have almost with one of us toss your way given the list of all the they did might just be you know what to take it.
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upon. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. love for maestro and the brute the shark . comments on them and about. the it is awful mr wood is awful miss you so lucky at the root of all. he's on a cute since you yeah so our quote of the day on the divorce rate in the. us look at the awfulness you said. displaced or lesser 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 keevil ten the antique dealers district one of paris's most prestigious addresses he takes us there. he wants to show. how well established he is and how he buys and sells some of the
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most renowned names in painting and sculpture this. is it. and they'll sell you we. physically but i try to do all. 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. so. it is when you have preserve examplar it's. really did this go toward the album that was the theme was his own vision was just a skill they get to see them your diet is good your prison what about a lot of shit without this question. how to cure all street taking
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what it does then most of it is nominally father own more famous signatures and in drawing by salvador dali. i should go. he did it because you need to sit and listen to him he. didn't go through. the only reason to get to know miscues is three to six inches to get a. simple filling in the city's only crime and discuss forcefully and discuss your can discuss scale saying this question abo or fit of above the rules that. they pick up us and balls to read on your list of all of them see a feeling of prophetic sit back keep all skip the truly peace issues keith kiss of . these kids as they go see. if you want to sit tight if you see the
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fish out. is almost more than a tape in the community of us 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 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
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lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the roaming classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round of lives only the one percent of. the time we can all middle of the room six. million real need. 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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coach. you guys i know you are nervous is a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come after you have to go meet the center of the digital with you and you'll solo a 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. along. and i'm really happy to join the fall of two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one i was also cliched needs to just say the rino p.r.t. teams latest edition make up a bigger certainly better jersey look. the story goes back to two thousand and three when eve bouvier met the russian billionaire a close friend of prince albert. he's the owner of the soccer club a s. monaco. movie and rebuild love he did off immediately.
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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. as compiled in this catalog. 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 and during a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explains. the amount of them in the us at all to us in that old year.
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we. won that corky. industry. of a year old appeared to patricia was a name assured to me three people of left. you know even though you're the. early fusion of the mature people of left. they were the day. after your heart to the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against even. used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claimed 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
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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 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
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billionaire should have been shrewder. whole pushed out. of each. to give him a all there so could all call point to a positive order this is for you did you know that you will hear what i mean you at your level. it is of course. because i don't get it. and if you wish to fit the. top boss of course because she will put us on oxygen for them to post said i don't he she small do you view this is really. we trying to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of love he 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
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september two thousand and fifteen the billionaire posed with these two gotchas which like the rest of his collection he bought from eve bouvier the rush. his 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 dunn one of the cosmos heiresses jacqueline's daughter. she found a complaint for theft and suspected even 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.
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here is gasoline 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 because i was confidant she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist body of work. total cooked to death and then ended in that had to share many young men so much it was like it came she may think that this seemed. iraq unity pradelle
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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 nine hundred seventy three then and. 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 lieu. of. all the little mall in. the city while. the cook. book. it. watch from the co they don't use of these old clothes. but
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i'm. sure that the better than ash if just. because 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 certain works escaped 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
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did indeed pay katherine you don't. apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. it was really cold and close to the stench shine up on the building the cabinet of a casual have to benefit the. demand i meet don't want this if it is if there's a favor of it. doesn't that mean the disk can support it because fer sure if yes it does own the promises we should shine so 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.
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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 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. in society killed off welfare when they call over midday on demand for the safety of work no want 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 showing all she said is off without a tough business up on anything just a plank of wood if she does it doesn't use f.s.s.
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is them law said yup assist them along an easy play to fit in such a terrible dipping following the supposed to go he's gonna be left with 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. in you know what. was being bought modena. but i mean this is. a skittle puzzle to some a mole is shall do said to a lesser. evil movie sold this because so drawing painter and his model to catherine. 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.
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of also thunderous a ship to do. it. as a never before. popular. kid with ship. means he can moan. no roof why why is it a so is busy no want to. pilot the whole me is or look out and. never. see so much as if that is going to know not sure i'll see. we contacted catherine utahns lawyer for response to serious accusations here is her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast .
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palm oil is one of the most controversial products of our time it's a sold. vegetable fat that's very cheap. twenty seventeen production grew to sixty three million tons that rapid growth in international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of plantations which it means the destruction of rain forest. get into these you know a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry
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but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with death this one difference i speak to now as there were no other takers. to find that mainstream media has met its maker. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education as being supplanted by the right to access education lower higher
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education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold under snot just about education anymore it's also about running a business there where you know models of the regime look good is also the kind of fellow economists. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was more now i'm running stream or higher education the new global economic war. area.
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