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. people some of that will want to go out of a sick little. say that money is the strike and you had people see it up recall to be something else it was a look at your place and to be sensitive it lets you. make enough money or less you know but second from a simple google search of the city but they can get. the sense that it's at the moment the need. i said. but this added benefit about obama's because

for the finale. but he did that to put on. something that's. not just the c.f.l. somebody from a chemist but you know what's that been on that board to see again. i didn't pick up on these. and yet burning off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. all had to do with drug. syndicates or his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders renzo rudolph. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends i should feel me. what you do more to.

make is a dickey older prediction wolf also it is the should be of news i just. want. to put the filmy. doesn't. know if bush is all got the point is that yes a bit disputed by imagining yet but suggest that if you. set up a so they could see some of 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. spillway oh yes how are you doing. for a. couple. of cost plus time. to type for the set of books. the man on his cell phone is david no mudd.

clearly troubled by our camera he bouvier quickly calls his assistant to go reassure him. use it the way you did you'd. need. it to be just like it most of them showed his emotion at the buses. but he has no rights regarding our footage to. the missouri. side to 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 initial interview face 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. 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 in the paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stoner 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 important painting 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 they've 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 peepers kept in the paris archives james palmer came across a clue this telegram. it states that staten or at cent the model 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 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 of 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 a name. 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. gallery in new york run by the daughter of the

family patriarch we ran into at art basel. james palmer decided to write tour. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. back to gisors financial survival guide. to housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause report. i've been saying the numbers

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a signal. these are going to talk about no plan just me right after the arse explores one new bit of their new. record. to say what i feel. about a less room and told them to sophie until i'm so busy shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our gas to move good luck that'll.

well the lawyers for our client contacted. the hellyeah mag 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 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 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 mud painting despite his constant denials . the detective had scored a point. now we 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. this 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 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 family swiss lawyer would tell us their version of the story. is about their money. make a set that i laugh i mean i'm at the end on a. and e. act. international at center. tony is a on the economy going to tax i mean i'd say. the twenty's act. to clear his client's even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting

ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. i don't think it was. it was a bit. of unease. for lee is extinct. what. the. in physically explicit. i mean by. 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 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 at least the art industry were made aware of what those paintings are. so that you know if the prosecutor's office is what's 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. little's i'm not happy. 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 of them also region if. you combine all of that i don't feel says we should. be a softer you befall. aside the so. awful i can. reproduce it don't.

give us the whole supper related all the actual southend diskettes 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 media as were invited. to the viewers and then we got 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 man. made she said it'll take more exact.

more than michelle's eleventh of us to this little blue bird all over this love for you didn't see that we got to this is illegal. in the us is. also. all slew of also where that those days are not there is they were that all. of us also. read a bit the dishes such as restore. the fish moss yolu. they all took was a also but more it's more as far as your soldiers go the distance are to us. 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 occur during controls. our french customs officer includes laxity on the part of the swiss administrators that oversee business conducted in the freeport. point. or seen as a nice house from previously ordered seymour caulking all. sources. you saw the guns are in your memo called you. on it but you don't. need. sauce she.

says just. say it don't kill a formality. make you with your worship all the time which is. 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. for the popular. new schemes with the young city does the prison formula one committee on why couldn't it.

these two. men feel more. cautious with. this man is aware that they are 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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when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. the fruit of the poisonous tree this is what critics are calling the ongoing investigation of alleged trump world collusion with russia during the two thousand and sixteen election in the meantime the upper echelons of the f.b.i. have been decimated over proven misconduct as russia gate morphed into f.b.i. game. changer they just thought is drastic to us it has taken care of our cause just least of me you could punish him most of them from a company for the first i would just. as static. the problem is that we kind of have a spode within that state they call

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