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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. Is here to show his fellow professionals that hes still in the game and is still to be taken seriously. On a say i probably think theres a battle at stake and mostly. Male male yes how are you going to. Bring. That. Cost plus time. To. Set up most of the men on his cell phone is david. Clearly troubled by our camera quickly calls his assistant to go reassure him. Just a minute that he. Did make a fuss so did to me just like get us out of gentle while walking his emotion at the buses. But he has no. Writes regarding our footage good. Damas if you. Dont know id like to cite the likes of. David in a mud isnt just anyone hes the man with three hundred picassos the head of one of the most powerful families in the art world the numb odds renown dealers. Heres their stand at art basel mobiles by calder mira whos funtown us because. And also a Roy Lichtenstein and as sean to say all of them stars of modern art. The odd 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 and they paris archives that we found a document that referred to the quest of mr oscar stener for his. Has stolen pate. The information that we found was that Oscar Stettner had been despoiled of a number of personal items a 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 n. T. 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 then it disappeared. Particularly because its description is so vague. The document only indicated that it was a painting signed by 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 stetson or had 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 hed 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 youve got reference to mr stener owning the painting youve got reference to portrait of a man. And you have a photograph thats 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 when auction held at christies 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 Art 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 mob 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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Though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the good have some fun every day americans call it. Took for the start to bridge that gap this is the Great American to catch. Up. Well the lawyers for our client contacted. The hellyeah mag gallery and helping them out of new york. And they were ignored. Which is not right its 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 its International Arts center and nobody else not the helli no my gallery nor david not maad that bought the painting at an auction held at christies. 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 CompanyInternational Art center was the renowned art dealer david. So he was a shareholder of the company that owns the muddy painting despite his constant denials. The detective had scored a point. And now he just had to find out where hes 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. Its hard to say if it was hidden or not but it was kept very discreetly in a 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 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 im at the end on a. Direct. International and tonys a on the economy going to action f one f. I mean id. Had the twentys act. To clear his clients even further blow or even raises doubts that the painting ever belonged to the jewish antiques dealer staton or. For south africa mr states and yet there. I dont think it was a Big Community any perceived. Of unease. For lee is extra gesture on the. What. The. In physically explicit. See. Said the most i meant 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 owners 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 theres 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 theyre 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 prosecutors offices was going for example were to provide us with information on all those paintings we could pretty quickly tell them which ones were store pretty quickly. For the swiss art dealers lawyer theres no point in dreaming no one will know for years whats really stored in the freeport. Me little is im not happy that its all false a. French customs investigator is of the same opinion even if hes on the other side of the fence. People following of them also region if. You combine all of that i dont feel says we should. Be a softer people fall is so i. Dont use aside the. Bluff all i can get hold of some calls on the liberal. He said give us the whole supper related. Diskettes because the discussion. In geneva the model 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. Was. In the middle of the ocean cameo started. On the floor where the president of the Geneva Freeport and his general secretary. Both men seemed selfconscious rejecting all responsibility regarding the supposed owner of the painting david no money. Measure he said it always unique law exact. More than michelles is as root of it to this little blue book or a little bit over it all this love for you created see this guy who doesnt even go. To us is. All slew of all say that those days are not as they were that all. Of us also. Read appropriate the deficit risk of. The fifty most your move. They all took was it also promote it if it more as far as your your soldiers go the distance to the stock. 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. Is a nice. Source he saw the guns are in your memory. But you dont remember. Why. They dont play for money to. Make. 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 were. Going to need. To. Feel more. Cautious and. 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 worlds biggest safe. In two thousand and sixteen the Panama Papers show the world with a tax haven the secrets two trillion United States dollars pass through most. In the amount of time that weve been in the Panama Papers exposure thats what it shows a lot of money it really is. Journalism its an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. Millions of. Documents were examine. All the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of newspaper. 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