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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 in. bottles worth five hundred thousand two thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are anti
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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 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 stores works by rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value. of case all befall say. another.
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secret is the name of the owners of the works. don't. give all chua i 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. 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 the lawsuit on the look on both of you. doesn't expose this to an on greed
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dozens in and get it. done to get enough funding given kissel mazumdar because he said to me. well why do you appear. on the. estate would it be a sequence to. what degree and. just put it under the. form of no question the company don't want to and if it does if i. look at their total of one pick a sample. ship or puppets. and little music. should put out within the sequel you don't see it's a coffee don't see it think of it to do the nickel for don't see it. either the watchword is secrecy. eve bouvier was originally a shipper but he transformed his old shipping company not to look cute. founded in
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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 multimillionaire. 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
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freeport welcomes us to his paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. a dog so i don't think several. very devoted. to. a toy just because you foresee a day visit but i want to hear that moment get the best unable to do and you will still get out bob keefe is that the keepin it is said design is any more. and it can take a billion more as it does to fit us though it's what i've told you of cost to keep your more. pretty they're loaded with. the two suppository. by storing and shipping his clients artworks each bouvier gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer.
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just because you felt hot. don't demand that album quick witted pretty quick to leave office in a limo ship quick witty can we function if you pick what it is that lead us to write though. he's read it guess who got his a vehicle. get to have almost without us the last you're given the list of all the they did by just be you know in order to take it. upon. for thirty years eve movie has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. for most young bute the shark. comments on them in the. videos of almost everybody's awfulness you so walk at the root of all. the. geese on a cute since you yeah so are they on the divorce rate in the.
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us look at the film as you said. interest rates are 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 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 to do all. the gallery director greets us. the gallery houses significant and very expensive works this marble. sculpture of eve is by. it's already been reserved by an asian
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client. and it is when you have preserving zone. it. did go toward the album that was the theme what is known. as the justice get. your diet it is good reason what about a lot of shit to me that the question. how do. you want to go when most of these of you know my mother father on more famous signatures and drawing by salvador dali. should go. he didn't. just sit and listen to him he. didn't go through. the region again domus cases three to six inches to get
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a. supervillain in the city's only crime and discuss forcefully plead and discuss shocking discuss. since this question apo off it to a pub or was it over. they picked up this and both completed your list i don't see a feeling of pre-fab it except they keep all skip the truly pieces key piece of. this gets us to go see. the fish out of a clear is almost by the knee deep in the community bus or a quick. 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
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is today soured by a series of lawsuits. in may two thousand and fifteen an article about him appeared in luke one 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 a russian dimitry. seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco.
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unique rain forest has been destroyed and it's a process that just keeps going. i've been saying the numbers mean folks they've matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom box. list or he goes back to
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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 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 catalog. he acquired works by wood ianni. go gung. ho dum. good luck. and even leonardo da vinci. plus some picasso's. 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
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a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explains i've always thought them out of the many of us here. if you had all to see that old year. when you were. on that coke you quite yet. i think so can y'all do you know the people name assured me table of live in that you is sort. of ok said yes. you don't even know you're that you can't quite yet put. into the show a bit of leisure so corker is destructive when they go there. after. the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against he. used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claimed to have paid double what his
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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 bordeaux 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 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
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a profit of twenty one million in twenty four hours. eve profits were colossal. but his attorney sweeps the accusations aside. and he believes there was nothing illegal in his clients' profits and that the russian billionaire should have been shrewder. whole pushed out. of each list of his to give him a all there so could all call point to a part of the world over this is sort of you do it directly with the one i mean you at your level of your idiot it is of course. there. and if you stick with it if it. formed a post said i will he she small do you view this is reach. we tried to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of love. preferred not to comment. was indicted in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen for
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fraud and complicity in money laundering the investigation is still ongoing. but in the bible of live 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 jackie 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 jacqueline's daughter. she found a complaint for theft and suspected each movie of being involved in the fencing of
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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 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 so 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 jacqueline picasso's confidant she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist body of work. of
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a total cook to dethrone under. so much it was a likeness charge a clean sheet image thief that this seemed very telling i don't need to print out to be identified and yelled all deserve to back it they will have it. on the artist's 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 in lieu. this year and said don't let this die so inject into guesses that he continued down all the gloom all of. this it was. denise thought a horse the crow it's a little bit of
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a commander. can't tended to. what could listen then can't count on that it doesn't count thank you stone did i say i meet am particularly unusual to watch. they don't deserve all of these clothes sit up. on their cell but out. of the better than a shift 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 butt caso administration who represents the family's interests. it is likely that certain works escaped the inventory as they had been hidden by.
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this is thought 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 katherine you don't earn lowers apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the because so heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. because to understand shine the community have to benefit the. ball on this if it is if there's a fear of it. says. you know us and the disc in support. of us adults on 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.
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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 nobody no 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 harrison who received the payment from eve. and in front of our camera the art dealer went even further. someone does sophisticated to. set the idea. in society killed off welfare when they call over. on demand for the safety of
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with no one to it who may tonight as i step out on a vote have i just know as you don't the second would initiate sees offset of almost without which then she knows she said it off we don't need to talk business up on anything just a play called when if she does it doesn't use f.s.s. is there blah said you know a system of mongolian easy. going to fit in such a terrible dipping following the supposed to go he's got to 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. a when you know what i'll do just so she goes beyond about my data. but i mean we're set to. get a whole puzzle to some a.f.c. and mo is shall want to sit through what. eve movie sold this because so drawing
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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 out the. well the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also time doris just might i mean it. these scenes of a never before but then he gets of a hard. popular. kid we should. mention that he can moan. now charlie rose why why is it a so is because don't want to. pilot the whole me is or look out and. never. say he said he's going to not showing off and they'll say. we contacted katherine utahns lawyer for response to serious accusations here is
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her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast . which. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the beach or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending two to twenty million fly a. book it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so what chance with.
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