tv Documentary RT June 28, 2018 7:30pm-8:00pm EDT
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there assets. behind these anonymous double locked doors there is gold and diamonds. it is also the largest wine cellar in the world with three million bottles laid to rest. bottles worth five hundred thousand two thousand dollars quietly maturing and gaining in value at a constant temperature and humidity. these buildings are anti earthquake and the doors resistant to explosives. and to protect these treasures from fire a special room houses hundreds of extinguishers that can be activated at any moment . another reason the freeport take so many precautions is because behind its gates rest priceless works of art thought to be worth tens of billions of
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dollars it's perhaps the world's largest museum but a museum no one can visit. the geneva freeport is one of europe's best kept secrets. rembrandt leonardo da vinci and thousands of antiquities a treasure the size of which nobody knows the scale or the value. of another secret is the name of the owners of the works. i just. recently a number of cases have tainted the institutions name the looting of jewish assets money laundering tax fraud it's hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in the freeport. the geneva for. report is an eldorado for art
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dealers wealthy heirs and fraudsters it's where they do their business hidden from view. one man agreed to open the doors of the freeport to us eve movie with his managing director a moan concise he runs the world's biggest company in the transport and storage of artworks that will see it was sad to see a little one streets just fall out and also that the dr i love. is zero f. we have two opposite sex and they all don't this is a if they don't seize control of dominoes deposit your keys from your press reports read what you already perceive although. every day dozens of priceless artworks enter or leave the store rooms managed by eve bouvier's company. there's even
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a special workshop to pack and prepare the works of shipment. said never lost it on time look at some of them he. doesn't expose his tone and greet us and then agree. that a good enough for begin kissel misool can do because he said to me. well why do you appear. until i see the. stupidity you think was. once again that. can flip under the. form of no question that comes in they don't want to and if he does if. he's assumed appropriate they're full of want to take an example. should a poor people just step out and look for missing. jennifer about within the sun for the sake of you know sits a coffee don't skip think of it to do the nickel for don't see it. hear the watch word is secrecy. eve bouvier was originally
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a shipper but he transformed his old shipping company not to look cool founded in one thousand fifty nine into an art market multinational. it is now present in geneva luxembourg and singapore. the man nicknamed the freeport king had a great idea to earn client loyalty his company would not only pack and ship artworks it would provide in geneva twenty thousand square meters of storage space along with framing and restoration workshops. it also offers its clients special rooms in which to admire their assets or negotiate sales dealers gallery owners and buyers can thus meet in total discretion . today the former shipper has become
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a multimillionaire. we meet him again in paris in the high class eighth district a stone's throw from the palace. eve bouvier the shipper of the geneva freeport welcomes us to his paris home a richly decorated and furnished apartment. not a dog so i don't think. to put. a toy just because you foresee davis is that but i want to hear that moment get the best unable to do and you will still. keep was it the keepin it is said designing is any more. to fit us though it's what i've told you of course to keep your more to. the to sop is that the. mice. during and shipping his clients art works each bouvier
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gradually learned another much more lucrative trade as an art dealer. just because he felt. on the mend that album quick witted pretty quick to leave office in a low share quick wit economy function is a quick wit it is a restaurant though and it limited he. read it guess who got his a vehicle. they ever could. get to have almost without a store us your way given the list of all the they did might just be you know what to take it. upon. for thirty years eve bouvier has been in the ideal place to learn the secrets of the market. a little brute the shark. comments on them in about. videos of us and we put it awful miss you so walk at the root of
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all it. gets on a cute since you yeah so our quote of the day on the divorce rate in the two months just look at that. said. the straits of us are sort of all to do more good in the form of. thanks to the network he's built up the businessman has even opened a gallery on the cable ten the antique dealers district one of paris's most prestigious addresses he takes us there. he wants to show us how well established he is and how he buys and sells some of the most renowned names in painting and sculpture. and i have to tell you we claim. to zip about it to do all. they can.
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the gallery director greets us. the gallery houses significant and very expensive works this marble sculpture of eve is by. it's already been reserved by an asian client. and it is when you have preserving zone. it. did this go toward the album that was the only it. was just this kid they get your seat and your diet is good because in what about a lot of shit to me that this question. how do. you want to because then most of these of you know my mother father on more famous signatures and in drawing by salvador dali. i should go. he didn't. just sit and listen to him he. didn't rule.
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out any reason to get it down miscues is three to six inches to get a. simple filling in the city's only crime and discuss forcefully and discuss your can discuss from the few scattered in this question apo off it to a pub or was it over. they picked up this and both completed your list. of feeling of prophetic but people skip the truly peace acacias key piece of. this gets us to go see. if you want it and if you see the fish out of. it almost by the knee deep in the community bus weekly. according to inside information these works are worth several million dollars. an art gallery with
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a view of the louvre quite a showcase. at it. but yves bouvier's good fortune is today soured by a series of lawsuits. in may two thousand and fifteen an article about him appeared in luke entitled xi'an the billionaire and the cursed because. it was a look into some of the darker practices of the art market. the allegations made by low point were such that the magazine was found guilty of infringement of privacy. the hard hitting article tells of a violent clash between movie and one of the richest men on the planet a russian dimitry live seen here in this photo taken in his living room in monaco.
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be. list story goes back to two thousand and three when eve bouvier met the russian billionaire a close friend of prince albert. is the owner of the soccer club monaco. movie and rebuild of love hit it off immediately. they are at a costume party on the billionaire's private greek island. for ten years eve movie help his friend put together an exceptional collection of paintings and sculptures as compound in this catalogue. he acquired works by rudy giuliani. go gun. down. and even leonardo da vinci. plus some picasso's.
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in zero thirty eight works for the mind boggling sum of just over one billion eight hundred million dollars. but their friendship would come to a brutal end during a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explains. the amount of the many us. soldiers. but we. won that corky quite yet. they are all the other people should be three people of left. you know even though you're the king quite early fusion to mature a bit of left. there. after. the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against.
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him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claim to have paid double what his collection was were. take for example this painting number six by mark rothko. we managed to get a hold of the documents of the transaction. eve bouvier bought it from wealthy landowners in the border region for eighty three million five hundred thousand dollars. a few weeks later as this invoice shows the painting was sold to an offshore company accent delight which belongs to the russian billionaire. acquired for eighty three point five million dollars the rothko was sold for one hundred forty million. profit on the deal almost seventy million dollars. with this picasso flute player with a naked woman the profit was even more staggering. purchased on october seventh two
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thousand and ten for three and a half million it was sold on to dimitri the very next day for twenty five million a profit of twenty one million in twenty four hours. eve movies profits were colossal. but his attorney sweeps the accusations aside he believes there was nothing illegal in his clients' profits and that the russian billionaire should have been shrewder. whole push up short approaches. of each. to give him a all there so could all call point to a positive order this year and you will hear what i mean you at your level. it is of course. going to stop because i don't get it. and if you would defend the. boss because of equal. form do post said i don't he she small do you
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view this is reach. we tried to contact the russian billionaire dimitri ruble of love. preferred not to comment. eve bouvier was indicted in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen for fraud and complicity in money laundering the investigation is still ongoing. but in the collection there were two other paintings that would cause trouble. in september two thousand and fifteen the billionaire posed with these two gosh is which like the rest of his collection he bought from eve bouvier the russian is beaming with joy. he thought he had done good business with these two portraits of checking because his last wife spanish woman with a fan and woman arranging her hair. but an unexpected figure came along to spoil the party. katherine. one of the cosmos heiresses
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jacqueline's daughter. she found a complaint for theft and suspected eve movie of being involved in the fencing of the two paintings sold to rebuild of live along with fifty eight drawings. a judge in paris issued an international warrant for bouvier's arrest. the art dealer was suddenly being sought by police forces all over the world. years gasoline with pablo picasso and her mother. back then they lived in the south of france on the hill of moshe in an old farmhouse called note. because i lived in painted there for twenty years or so. in the fourteenth district of paris we're going to meet peter dupont.
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this former journalist was jacqueline picasso's confidant she wrote about their relationship in a book and she witnessed the scale of the artist by. the of work. so the ship was a like his charge a clean sheet image that the cib. yellow gold is that he did back a lot of it. on the artist's death in one thousand nine hundred seventy three then on jackson's death thirteen years later almost two thousand paintings seven thousand drawings and one thousand two hundred sculptures were officially recorded . you know order to pay the inheritance duties part of the work was given to the state something known as payment in the you. know this you don't play
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this dice on deck and to guess is that when you're done all the gloom all of. this is a while. ago it's a little bit of a commander. john tended to. book could listen. it doesn't count thank you stone did i say i meet. watch the show they don't deserve these. men and we've done well. but i don't say i counted. all of it is that it is for. the better than a shift just sit back. if you. have. picasso's body of work was enormous. some of his works went unrecorded after the painter died they were probably hidden away during the inventory for the inheritance. that is what this report suggests by the director of the so administration who
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represents the families interests. it is likely that certain works escaped the inventory as they had been hidden by. this is the ought to be the case for the two disputed paintings. accused of being involved in the theft of the two portraits. defends himself and declares that he did indeed pay catherine you done earlier is apparently asked him to pay money not directly to the bokassa heiress but to a trust fund an offshore company based in a tax haven. called me close to the stench shine the cabinet of a casion have a fairly big day job you in a community demand i mean done what is often is if there's a fear of it of all. your debts and the discreet support because fair so if you set off on the promises you or asian child saw the cost. to
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prove his claims he shows us this document which is apparently the receipt for payment for the two portraits. emmie i invest bouvier's company paid eight million dollars to nobody oh trust based at the central bank investor who's capital of lichtenstein. but the name of catherine who done doesn't appear. but investigators discovered that no below trust belonged to a certain katherine blake living at rouge black in paris. the address was no longer her residential address but play was none other than the married name of katherine you've done. behind the offshore company it was indeed the because so heiress who received the payment from eve movie and in front of our camera the art dealer went even further. someone does sophisticated good of what he
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. said. and society killed off on a call over method on demand for the long mariachi officer. no one to me tonight as i said on the boat have i just. said it off we don't need to talk business up on anything just a play called rubin if you think it was f.s.s. he said you know this is demo baloney an easy way to fit all duping following the said. eve movie had to pay several million dollars in bail to have his international arrest warrant lifted. and still facing an indictment for fencing stolen goods has made new accusations regarding the picasso heiresses financial scams. when you know what all the. moderna. said to.
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that mall is shall want to sit through what. each movie sold this because so drawing painter and his model to katherine. once again no mention of her name the money was paid to an offshore company in panama this time. while the drawing turned up at the geneva freeport. of also. it. as a never before. good we should. know she really. is busy don't want to. look out it.
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never. says about your exit is not true i don't see. we contacted katherine utahns lawyer for response to eve serious accusations here is her reply. does not wish to communicate or to participate in any sort of broadcast. originally thought is drastic to get our citizens taken care of our cause just please stop offering you could function most of them from a completely different cards i would just. as direct. the problems that we can of how they stayed within the state they call a nice thing it's not part of sweden. but more like it took some
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people who have money. no no place not so stop stop stop stop the bullshit koku. my culture is christian country and we don't do things like that and we tell you if you do then we hate you and somebody hopefully you can do something about the stuff. we cannot be naive about to not attract more gangsters rapists and these are actually that are tearing down this city and we want sweden to be a swedish country and we want a number of the people who live here to go back. rhesus tell in freefall racist all basket case racism as a lost cause
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a lost country italy is about to crash because the money is being printed and the e.c. be printed trillions of euro's it doesn't go. these economies they go it goes the people in monaco and it goes on to twenty one twenty two trillion dollars estimated offshore money matters for these people they get all the free money from the central banks you see the manifestation of it in monaco.
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