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 staten or had sent them a did yani 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 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 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 mud gallery in new york run by the daughter of the family patriarch we ran into at art basle. james palmer decided to write to her.

about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. your at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. 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 feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didn't like. question arc

and i secretly promised to never like it said one does not need a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this different speech because there are no other takers. saying that mainstream media has met its make. put in lives by two things by his emotion that he is. in the long he places a very long great need he says so to speak of a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate. 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 the response was essentially you're 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. she filed a lawsuit against the hell in the mod 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 its international art center and nobody else not the helli not my 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 extraordinary. a document published by the journalist 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. 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

a freeport where there are no mad 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 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. 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. makers that i blew up and i laugh i mean i met the. pope and the effect. international and. they all the economy going to action i mean a mad. game. to clear his client's even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. it don't be. any perceived. of

unease. for lee is extinct. while. the. in physically explicit. sea. seemed the most natural i mean 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 on for example were to provide 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 this shuttle is i'm not happy that it's all false a. french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he's on the other side of the fence. people following at them also region if you could bob you know that i don't feel says we should. a softer you before all is so i. don't use aside the so. awful i can see it at all that some calls on the liberal. he said give us the whole supper related to southend diskettes 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's were invited. was a woman who lived on the ocean tell me i 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 it still is unique law exact. and it is. more than michelle's it as root of it to this little blue book or a little bit over the top of this low profile you didn't see this guy who doesn't

even go. to yes is. all a slew of also where that visit is on notice they were that all. of us also. read up with you at the dishes such as restore. the fish moss your who. was a also a malt it if it was a jury a soldier's cure the distance or to the store. 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 true. ability 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. he saw the guns are in your memory. but you don't remember. why. 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 supposedly fighting the good fight calling for much stricter regulations. new schemes with the young. boy going to need. to. feel more. cautious like. this man is aware that there is still a long way to go. but having agreed to make concessions on its banking secrecy will

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among the stories that shaped the week that evidence incriminating russia in the script poisoning case is seriously weakened after several major claims are refuted also ahead. a six week of protests along the gals and border brings the palestinian death toll to nearly fifty people more remain. the arabian president warned against scrapping the twenty fifteen nuclear deal saying it would be a monumental mistake. israel accuses tehran of secretly trying to undermine the

agreement. what's being called the worst may day riot in half a century takes place in paris with more than two hundred people arrested. in the middle class is now starting to. look. guests coming up to us the police moving and that's because just i guess there is going on. with the top stories from the past seven days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on our to international hello and welcome this week saw some major developments in the own going investigation into this poisoning case a nato member admitted it had produced the novacek like substance as recently as last year and then the un's chemical weapons watchdog backtracked on previous

claims about the nerve agent picking up the story. criminal investigations usually work towards conclusions as new information and facts come to light but with this great ball case it all seems a bit backwards and feels like those pesky details are being ignored take for example the embarrassing but significant slip up we heard this week from the chief of the international chemical weapons watchdog the research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams of bits even in seoul is free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams of which goes beyond research activities for protection but the idea that such a large amount having been found suggests that it had been created as a weapon and not for research purposes is important from the get go the u.k. claim that nobody talks soviet origins were clear evidence that russia was the guilty party at the same time moscow argued that other states have the ability to create another truck and have experimented with doing just that so the suggestion

that such a large amount wouldn't be found in research situations just adds to that idea that there is no other plausible alternative but that russia is behind the attack there is just one tiny problem with all of that. the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in souls bre on the fourth of march twenty eighth the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams but that whiplash inducing you turn has no one's convictions that russia did it even when combined with an announcement coming from the czech president through nova choke was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity that we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened so there you have it and then mission from at least one country saying that yeah they have produced and experimented with no each of class agents delivering a blow to a key element of the u.k.'s case no more can it be claimed that the substance kind of only come from russia right wrong that two didn't dent the narrative the media

gave almost no attention to the announcement and those who did cover it pointed out what they called siemens pro russia stance because let's face it in today's climate being pro russia means you're on reliable something else we saw this week was the u.k. national security advisor disclosing the fact that no suspects have been identified in the poisoning but given the fact that the case seems to be based on the assumption of guilty until proven innocent many outlets ran that statement alongside the line that police were urgently reviewing the security of other defected russian spies in the country once again implying moscow's guilt despite a lack of even one suspect after two months and well clearly none of these details are enough to prove russia's innocence at the same time nothing we've seen or heard up till now is enough to prove it's guilt either. or russia sees the revelation money being czech president on their minds london's case but in a statement to r.t. the british foreign office repeated its claims that only moscow has the technical means operational experience on motive to target the script we heard from

a former u.k. intelligence officer and the global affairs expert. it really does so blow the whole british american thesis out of the water the british american thesis was that nobody bar of the russians could have produced i mean the formula had been published in the united states already some years ago and now if. what the czechs are saying today to be correct then. explode the entire british american thesis i'm sure many of the or stylish when we first saw this interview appeared with the chief of the. one can look at that and say well ok it's very easy probably to make a mistaken image of an interview and say grams when in fact you meant milligrams but that is actually contradicted by what the i.p.c.c. selves have said it makes you wonder what was the reasoning behind the chief actually saying something that appears to be not just

a mistake but at least officially untrue so it was grasped upon by headlines in the west that said this was further proof that such a huge substance i see huge amount could only come from a state of course to bolster their case that this might be russia. palestinians have been continuing their occupation rowley's along the gal's a border over the course of the week the area has been engulfed in black smoke from tires the protest the great march of return has lasted for weeks and the number of fertility have been mounting. lucky. the to do it getting

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lives. could always during my football career i have to be one of the best players in cars after this injury my football career is over these really response with live life far too high for shut me up and it was just lucky to live. if people are actually crossing a fence entrance really territory and the right to use non-lethal slow friday of sorts to carry out her arrest if there has been. you know i'm not. crossing the border that authorization but using my. right i'm using intentional force. here i'm on are sponsored in the truck to my friends and that's not what's happening.

it's difficult to see how time burning the stone throwing. or even more of cocktails thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions. can be seen to constitute. the arena and president has warned the us against threats to scrap the twenty fifteen and you know deal i got it because if the us pulls out of the nuclear deal it will soon realize that this decision will become a historic regret for the holiday battle you will it comes after the israeli prime minister intensified efforts to convince donald trump to drop the historic deal in a dramatic power point presentation venom in netanya cling to iran while aided by

its nuclear ambitions president trump say's he'll decide next saturday on whether to pull lives of the agreement tonight i'm here to tell you one thing. iran lart the evidence well that lies in this filing cabinet allegedly thousands of documents and c.d.'s half a ton to be precise proven conclusively to iran misled the world about its nuclear plans both before and after the twenty fifteen agreement we've known for years that iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called project ahmad hailing this as a significant development and a great intelligence achievement that the all who was sure iran has one reason and one reason only to hide this information why would a terrorist regime hide and meticulously catalog good secret nuclear files if not to use them a good leader do what other country would do such a thing some will remember netanyahu has twenty twelve un isp.