room. through the room with you or rather through. the you on thank you on through with. locked away secrets and shady financial set ups are nightmares for french tax inspectors and customs officers. we question the customs investigator and a specialist in fraud and the trafficking of cultural assets. faced with such scams and he recognizes this powerlessness. this is a city it costs a skeleton office a mall only diminish the a siddur want your gal that means hostile forces were on the x.

for the observer on the whole. well fed up on the show. it on e s it's a shit to each image think of it on the contrary i don't. despise total. could have been if you don't have a bank account he's also a device he's got his powerful 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. the ball something that will want to go out a bunch of sick people. say that money just as strong and we had people go

see it up we call them putting up something else or what. took. place in tucson city let's. make enough money i'll let you go but second from the hotel before the switch was that they couldn't get. decent food that's at the meeting. i said. but they said it went up and on the bottom of the finale. but he did it about. something. help us to step up somebody from a calculus but you know what's that been like for that to see again. but he didn't pick up on this. and yet barely off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted.

if you. missed. all that to. see his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders rudolph. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends with you to fill me in what you do more to. make you should take the older predicting one off also given his bishop could be of newman i just. want. to put the filmy. doesn't. the point is that yes he did this to me by imagining. that if you. look at it. that will set up a so they can see if you want to 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. v.a. is here to show his fellow professionals that he's still in the game and is still to be taken seriously. to build up all the automation on a say probably factors that will allow. most of. us

to feel oh ya feel me oh yes how are you. for a. last question. it's. said that most of the men on his cell phone is david no mudd. clearly troubled by our camera the blue v.a. quickly calls his assistant to go reassure him. use it the way you did you. need. to treat just like it just at the. moment the buses. but he has no rights regarding our footage to.

cite 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 who's fun tanos 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. the story started here in the paris archives in two thousand and eleven with this

man james palmer. e 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 and the paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar steiner 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 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 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 a painting signed by do jani portrait of a man. the detective had no idea what the painting looked like. he had to find a photo of it at all costs. by consulting papers 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 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. it was acquired by a shell company based in panama international arts center whose registration

document is seen here. its rightful owner is unnamed. 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 basel. james palmer decided to write to our. political aims to leave the victim outside to start with a few for the full force of foreigners but i think it was that my wife. when i left that i sat take some. of those willing.

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played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out it's. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager kill the narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. it's an experience like no one else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so one more chance for. the base this minute. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education low it's high

education is becoming just another product that can be pulled and sold so it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you could almost at the. souls. they could if you. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm an extremely more higher education the new global economic war. well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah maggie 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 their 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 arts center and nobody else not the head gallery nor david not maad 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 extorted. mary. a document published by the journalist revealed that behind the panamanian company international art center was the renowned art dealer david no mud.

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 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 nomad 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 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 rule. we would never meet the art dealers themselves but they did accord us an exclusive uing of the painting 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. is about their money.

make a set that blew up and i laugh i mean i'm at the naked and the effect. international assets and tony is a on the economy going to action there for life i mean a mad. game actually the last. to clear his clients even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. commission states and yet they. don't seem to be. any perceived. in that of any. forty is extinct yes on the phone this on this on the what. the. in physically explicit. c i stand and you said the most i meant by

allah 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. 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 that you know if the prosecutor's office was going for example were to provide us with information on all those paintings we could pretty 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 happy that it's all false a. french

customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he is on the other side of the fence. people following of them also region if. you know that i don't feel says we should. be a softer people fall is so i. don't use aside the. awful i can. reduce. the whole. related. because of the 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 medias

were invited. was. in the middle of the ocean coming out 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 modern. measure he said at last you easily become more exact. more than his shows it doesn't of you to stick to this little blue book or a little bit over it all this love for you didn't see this guy who also didn't go. to the us is. all a slew of also where that those days are not in so where that all. of us also. read appropriate the dishes such as restore. the fifty most your who.

they want because it also the more it is it the more as far as your soldiers go the distance to the stock. 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. irregularities regarding inventories and absence of traceability of merchandise. errors in stock accountancy and recurrent problems which occurred. controls. our french customs officer includes laxity on the part of the swiss administrators that oversee business conducted in the freeport.

they don't keep their formality. he a fifty. make. 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. new schemes with city does the prison formula one committee on why couldn't it. about. these two. men feel more. cautious with. 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.

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