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it's effective is very valuable and then very competent so so far we go to do something as if to be competent also as a footballer and therefore we know from that when we come back to the national team we brits all this knowledge is and we can perform better. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin roasted twenty thousand dollars. china's building two
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point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. what politicians do listen to me don't. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure most somewhat want to be reps that have to do like to cross the saliva before tree in the morning can't be good i'm interested always in the waters in the house. or in this city mall. locked away secrets and shady financial setups are nightmares for french tax
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inspectors and customs officers. we question the customs investigator a specialist in fraud and the trafficking of cultural assets. faced with such scams he recognizes his powerlessness. on credits for city of course a skeleton of a sim or only a civil war on your god that means your heart says the. only expert on the whole. well fed up on the show. it on e s it's a shit to each cement think you need on the contrary i don't. despise. could have been if you don't have a bank account he's also tell you honestly it's 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
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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 to a bunch of sick people. say that money is the strike and you had people see it up because all that putting up something else or what. took. place in tucson city get lesser known for making the show. as you go but check off the show before us which was it but they couldn't get. the second it's at the p.t.a. meeting. i said. but they said it went up about obama's because the sun never. played it about. something it's. not just the c.f.l.
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somebody from a calculus but you know what's that been on the board to see again. i didn't pick up on these. and he had barely off his private jet we soon see that his controversial reputation causes fewer problems than predicted. if. this. is all that's to. say his first appointment is with one of the art fairs founders. both men have businesses in singapore and are good friends with you to feel make what you do more to. make you should take the older predicting one off also it is the ship could be of new may i just. want to modify my job.
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to put the filmy. doesn't. know if the apartment is meet this commitment in it yet but some possibility. that it. will set up a so they can 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.
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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 of good will by last week and most of. us oh yeah we'll still be oh yes how are you going to. very good. question. and i was. the man on his cell phone is david no mud. clearly troubled by our camera he blew via quickly calls his assistant to go
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reassure him. use it the way you did you'd. need. to be just like you just at the job was busy and it's the bosses. but he has no rights regarding our footage to. fight the excess. 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 miro zz fontana's and 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
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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. he 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
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it was here and 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 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
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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 that 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 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
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on the wall of the room dedicated to middle yani. 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
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a trace of the painting here in london in the catalogue when 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 to our.
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a huge amount of pressure come out you have to go meet the center of the beach hotel with you and do all the great the great the good you are the rock at the back nobody gets you we need you to get enough to go. alone. and i'm really happy to join for the two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia meet the special one come on girl to appreciate me to just read the review theology team's latest edition to make up as we go. to jersey. well the lawyers for our client contacted. the mag and helping them out of new york. and they were ignored. which is not right it's not proper so i think after about
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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. and we have nothing to do with that. james palmer was not taken in by her response. he filed a lawsuit against the helen a mud 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 it's international arts center and nobody else not the helen gallery nor david not model that bought the painting at an auction held at christie's. thing stopped dead there until two thousand and fifteen and the leaking of the panama papers extraordinary. a document
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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. 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 no mad family are estimated to have a vote three to four billion dollars worth of art or about four and
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a half thousand works of art and there are 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 shows 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
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us their version of the story. is about their money. makers that i laugh i mean i'm at the. direct. international center. on the economy going to action there for life i mean i'm mad . to clear his client's even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staten or. any perceived. fully is sixty. days on the what. the.
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in fairly explicit. 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
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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 is switzerland 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.
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so. our french customs investigator is of the same opinion even if he is on the. other side of the fence. off on a dime also legion if. you combine all that and says we should see more in oman to be on a softer you before all is so i. don't use a side. more boffo i can. reduce don't. give us the whole supper related for the actual southend diskette because in 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
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emergency press conference. all representatives of the main swiss media's were invited. was. in the little. family get 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. made he said it still is unique more exact. more than michelle's. to there's a. little bit over it all that love appropriate to see this guy who was of the. city yes is. almost lived with it.
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as it is i'm not there they were that all. of us also. read a book with the deficit restored. if it's the most your. this is more as far as d.j.'s orders go the distance yes. 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.
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in 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 we're. going to need. to. feel more. secure. 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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i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million. it's an experience like no one else want to do because i want to show what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so chance with . the base is going to. match ties or financial survival guide liquid assets those that you can convert
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