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

intitled 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 tour.

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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 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 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 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. the swiss judiciary issued a search warrant for the mob 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 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 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 clear act. internationally. tony is a on the economy going to action f.i.f.a. i mean a mad. game. to clear his clients even further lawyer or even raise. has doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staten or. they don't seem to be. given these. fully is extinct. what. the. explicit.

let us down and. 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 stanton 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 so that you know if the prosecutor's offices what sort of for example were provide to. us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones are 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. me little as i am not happy. it's all false they say. they will save us you know that means. so. our 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. your company at all didn't fall says we should know him all to be a softer you before all is so i. don't use a side to so. awful i can. reproduce it don't. just. give us the whole supper related all the actual southend diskette because of the discussion. in geneva the middle 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. to the viewers and family have started. on the floor with 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. she said it is your usual mo exact. a little. more than michelle's a lesson to you to stick to this little blue little bit over with all this love appropriately i didn't see that the guy who doesn't even go. see us is. also got all slew of also where that these businesses are not in so where that all. of us also. read up or put it is this is us at risk of. the

fifty most yahoo. they all took was it also promote it if it more as far as d.j.'s soldiers go the distance or to the store. but what other secrets are really hidden in the report. 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 occur during controls. our french customs officer includes laxity on the part of the swiss administrators that oversee business conducted in the freeport. zone point.

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that as reality. i'm. not. going to do i do not know just a little thing to know about how know i'm tired of all. this hour's headlines stories german police raid a migrant center where a group of refugees out aggressively for still foster is truly son asylum seeker earlier this week also russia's foreign minister say if israel really has evidence

that a round violated the twenty fifty nuclear agreement it needs to hand it over to the international atomic energy agency and median family. and the i called a century old boy scouts of america group for a gender neutral name change as it prepares to start taking in girls next year. the moves and the debates are run political correct. there isn't a great deal of evidence to suggest that only boys want to do traditionally male activities and only want to do traditionally female activities that people are afraid that there are genders and the boys like to do boys stuff and the girls like to do girl stuff it's not a backward mistake it's true. rev your tuning in from around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our two

international my names you know neal good to have your company our top story german police have carried out a major raid on a migrant center in the south of the country after scores of asylum seekers forcibly prevented the deportation of a two goalies man on monday the group reportedly attacked officers on their vehicles before helping the individual escape peter all over as more. but if we start on monday with the incident and kick this all off it started when police in the southwestern german town of end of. gartin but important book arrived at this refugee center with the intention of taking away a twenty three year old man from originally from tonga for togo a big part of who is about to be deported now as they arrive to do that crowds of people start arriving saying he should be set free those crowds got bigger and bigger we're hearing one hundred fifty plus refugees surrounding the police in

their car that was there we hear from the police that this was a particularly aggressive crowd that threats were being shouted the police officers eventually for air fearing for their safety well they released the man and then retreated now the police chiefs haven't condemned those officers they've said that they what they described was a really horrific situation a potentially dangerous situation that they were right to pull out there now three days later thursday we saw a major police raid take place now we're hearing as many as two hundred police were involved in this and they detained that twenty three year old along with seventeen other people but speaking to the press senior police saying that they have to move in when they did to stop this situation descending into further chaos as a huge structures were organized at the refuges center that's apparently going to obstruct the thordis were. there was considerable danger of the demerge and as

a lawless area. well as more information has come out about this throughout thursday we've seen quite angry reaction from politicians particularly at the fact that it this man was essentially on the run in free for three days and we also heard from the interior minister a horse and who is typically a bully and in what he had to say. is what happens there is a blow to our normal size of the population issues nor in the. on our hospitality. attacks on police officers are unacceptable in a constitutional state such conduct must have criminal consequences is clear that frustration is no excuse for crime there are a lot of questions being asked namely well why was this able to happen in the first place how can it be stopped from happening at other refugee centers in the future and ultimately who is to take the blame for allowing this situation to escalate as rapidly as it did. russia's foreign minister has told israel that if

it has evidence that iran broke the twenty fifteen nuclear deal it must relate to the international atomic energy agency syria love rolf's comments come after israel's leader been you in netanya who claim that tehran repeatedly misled the international community over its uranium enrichment program such documents should be immediately passed on to the international atomic energy agency but according to the comments from experts taking part in the negotiations which it's very likely that such documents refer to previous activity which has already been taken into account by the international agencies inspections that. if the u.s. were announcers exit from the around the older group the international community will of course lose one of the most important instruments promoting the nuclear nonproliferation regime the source that put it during a dramatic presentation on monday prime minister netanyahu claimed around lied

about never having had a nuclear weapons program he also alleged it had continued weapons research after the twenty fifteen deal was struck another tried to hide all of the files relating to its work netanyahu revealed fifty five thousand pages of documents apparently seized from iran in a heist by israeli intelligence which he said was proof of tehran's dishonesty. you know. the project. was a comprehensive program designed. to work. we're also. superbly sure. to use the time. to devote to it. we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous place in the rest of the region and iran's vision to dominate all these. you know this is with israel in this

fight strongly support israel sovereign right to defend itself. all european leaders urged israel to submit all of the data to the un's nuclear watchdog but along with the i.e. itself they suggested there was nothing new in the presentation there is no credible evidence around broken the agreement the park was struck in twenty fifteen now after nine years of talks it was brokered by b. u.s. china britain russia france and germany and hailed as a huge diplomatic success in exchange for some sanctions being lifted around agreed to strict limits on its nuclear program to open up its facilities to international experts the deal is currently in jeopardy though the u.s. president who's been a vocal critic is the citing whether to walk away many analysts saw binyamin netanyahu his presentation as an attempt to convince donald trump that it should be abandoned until war activist chris nine am told this he also thinks it paves the way for washington to pull out. the only conclusion you can draw from is that this

was likely part of an operation to try and bounce us to try and give credibility to donald trump's efforts is his is apparent plan to walk out walk away from the from the treated with iran so it seems it seems a reasonable assumption to make that that is actually what was behind this effort by benjamin netanyahu the stakes really are very very high here and you know it is one of the few. to deal with iran was one of the few successes of. foreign policy in the region it was one of the things that was actually served to kind of create at least the hope that some of the problems in the region could be resolved if that's broken we're in very very dangerous territory. a group whose wedding in yemen last month was hit by what's thought to have been a saudi led our strike has been describing the horror of what occurred when the

mist i was struck killing at least twenty family members and friends he is among the survivors who have been telling their story exclusively to r.t. . at the moment of the bombardment the rocket landed and the whole world turned red and i thought boy i was turning in the air and many were killed was shrapnel in a bag and. so there was some victims who were tomb in home others were injured in the stomach head neck hands or licks my cousin and other relatives were injured. one and then i was i came to see the wedding and i was looking at people dancing and then. i was he's my like the shrapnel from the rocket.

we went to the wedding and suddenly during the celebration the strike came we didn't have anything then no weapons no nothing i lost a foot the same happened to my brother my other brother died because of the bombing we tried to flee but could not walk we had to wait until ambulances came and garces dozen of the wounded are in a critical condition just a note on this we're yet to hear from the saudi led coalition to our request for an update on its investigation into what happened at some background to all this the saudi led military operation in yemen was launched against rebels who control vast territories in the north the saudis have repeatedly insisted that they do not target civilians the coalition has carried out a number of its own investigations into airstrikes that have led to mass casualties as rights groups continue to call. to end the conflict.