mm. oh ladies and gentlemen, we moved to the letter j, the salvage on monday, the masterpiece berlin out have tried to save you up previous in collections of brand kings of england, the world has become a learned much more dangerous place and that's where i think the markets fits in because the arts market as seen as another safe haven, 352000000. it's been at $352000000.00. benjamin, when it gets into the millions, it's only about money. it's not about artistic abilities anymore. translation commodities on a discrete discretion is everything in the art industry. there's plenty of room for tax evasion, and the $400000000.00 is the bed on the basis. so ah, thus have auto mall the salvador monday as probably in a customs warehouse. well, never see that one again in mm ah new york, he will begin our journey to learn about duty free customs warehouses and the role they play an art, another valuables about $25000000000.00 worth of art is traded in the world's biggest art market. every year, booms on wall street often spill over into art and other expensive collectibles. right here in new york, big old hobbling wagon and kill us at lunch. when i started in new york in 1991 with my own company, a huge fan was made about any painting worth a $1000000.00 or so suddenly a 1000000 wasn't that much anymore, which then suddenly it was 10000000 on a little time. nowadays, it takes more like 100000000 to get people's attention over people to say, that's a really valuable painting is more auth, boston's. okay? because it's quickly about what has been diesel is an art forwarder. his company transports valuable paintings in specially build crates to auctions and galleries. he tells us is even transported the salvatore, monday. in recent years, however, he's been delivering a growing number of artworks to high security warehouses, known as free pool. ah, is campus is become to serve along the wish mongers in gainfully booked a lot. i think the silva tour monday was stored at geneva freeport. him over the years. i've sent many, many artworks to freeport in switzerland, off to major auctions, frequency strides kashik the most valuable painting in the world. the salvatore monday was created in da vinci's workshop, around 1500. it disappeared after it was salted christie's in new york in 2017 other works of azure also disappearing. museum directors like alfred dividing, are often see requests the paintings going unfulfilled because the artworks are in free ports. ready ali he went on your computer, it's such a shame when pieces just vanish but 101520 years ago, storing them and making them disappear. is clearly a conscious choices. yonkers all man, as he thought to wooster, portis, placing art in hidden storage has an enormous impact. he says, when in fact, you're trying to go to procedure. when a piece disappears into a warehouse, you said 20 or 30 years and was never seen used, it requires a certain mistake globally, the public suddenly becomes interested in seeing the work. so and, and for a piece they're willing to spend a lot of money for something like that and also good but is a hidden painting with more than one in a museum. swiss lawyer, an art market expert, monica road points out further. incentives for collectors to simply put their paintings into storage. escape to next, e i'm. it softens, i did as a murky side of the art market. is an unregulated island. all, as you can still get away with things that have long been prohibited and punishable on the financial market, is arts can be transported very easily. and for the most part, stored without the tax authorities finding out. that's why it's also a commodity that lends itself to tax crimes for your store, your daily they, i, me, geneva is one of the most important financial centers in europe. is also home to a facility where high priced collectors, items, art and taxes intersect. or at least they should. genevas freeport is accustomed warehouse, the self at all money, the most expensive painting in the world. today's was reportedly kept here for years. but what are these understated buildings that conceal so much? zolphi, arkell st. i english, i may ask them, warehouses were created to facilitate trait long ago, long work goods could be kept there temporarily, not decades out until the final destination who was determined our player base that they finity fair. the advantage is that you don't pay taxes to a country where the goods don't $10.00 land vote, like honest with lose lawn. geneva freeport is on swiss oil and is majority owned by the count on of geneva. as long as the objects are stored there, the country doesn't to man tax or customs, duties from the owners. items from all over the world can be brought straight from the airport. but what is the incentive? why does switzerland of a storage facilities for expensive assets and not demand customs duties? raimie paganini has a suspicion. he was part of the geneva municipal government until 2020. he says that for a long time, swiss banks were attracting foreign assets. but that changed in 2017, when switzerland started passing information on to tax authorities in other countries who differently avo. oh josh, yellow household only bought people who used to hide their money in banks could no longer do sells it much docile and the owners needed to hide all this untaxed wealth. somewhere else in the dash, it went into goods such as ours. laugh diamonds, all your old a dog. totes. and so the free ports became part of these new systems of the ax, optimization as we say in switzerland. those sit tax optimization. in other words, not paying taxes. look to me as hopeless goes over the over on big puddle. he joined geneva city government in 2007 and later became mer his suspicions surfaced during his tenure, his mer jetted uncle's head of le. so did, and i was on the board of directors of the parking administration instead of you and they had a glass elevator directly across from the freeport. every time i went up, i wondered what shady operations were going on inside ios. what happens there should be public knowledge and it just isn't activity even as a mayor. i couldn't go in there then one that says it all for, for it's a fortress said dixie, sir. in fact, us we want to see for ourselves how customs warehouses like geneva freeport become the surreptitious institutions that parkin. he suspects them to be. they just fled to request to fill with the design of the buildings. give us a clue about their function. geneva based architect free b. m 3 designed an extension to the local customs warehouse followed by several freeport abroad or far from the back of monkeys and on the you. reports are in places that hardly any one knows apple duty free zones or industrial areas to where would is one on his p n. benedict one pawn, carmelo stan datto oversold the completion of their 1st freeport for art and precious goods. in 2010 of the porpoise, but that's in a coma. save our pretty fema. so let's watch this short video from singapore. it was shot once the building was complete and shows the entrance school. don betsel. okay, always see us in sit here. you can see the secured exterior, but that we paid great attention to these external barriers so menstrual day, the baha exterior or less good movie, that's the visitors entrance. the architects show us both sides of the free port, the opulent foyer, and the high security storage rooms it on while a buckle did of or though got a lot for don't. but you can see the root artworks take through the building. they're scanned with special scanners before they go into their small secured rooms, off at the chombo securities it fortifications and luxury aesthetics merch. here to form a new type of building a security vote for highly valuable objects, financed by an art forwarder from geneva. rational. so the board of, well, we were lucky enough to have a great expert show us the way. so if bouvier and his team developed the concept meal blast, la pogue, i'm general area of invented a principal and passed it on to us. buildings like this didn't exist before. it was an incredible experience. absolutely. more in the architects built a 2nd freeport at luxembourg airport. right next to the runway for eve both yay. requests for an interview with paul v. a. and the permission to film remain unanswered. but archive material from the buildings unveiling and fall of 2014 exists ah, a song was composed especially for the occasion a social event to mark the opening of a warehouse. ah, owner and developer. eve bouvier was there in person. he had grand plans for freeport. bowmois dick d for dog developer who's your long one. my goal is to build more of them around the world so that they become a brand, a logistics platform dedicated to artworks and valuable objects. when we want to be at the forefront of the industry in terms of security, fire safety, alarm systems, humidity, regulation and temperature control if could go from one of them and the entrepreneurs . his company, natural luke goodrow, created something new, luxurious high security stores that appeals to his affluent clientele. via is also a successful art dealer himself, with excellent connections. in 2013, he sold the salvage on monday for around a $127000000.00. the painting was lighter, auctioned off at christie's as the most expensive painting in the world, who he didn't want these to be drab warehouses. he wanted his free ports to be a network of glamorous treasure troves. the economist called them to the warehouses for the ultra rich. the b b. c has speculated the geneva is home to the greatest art collection. no one can see the freeport successes certainly roused intrigue. politicians have started to take notice following the panama papers, the e u. created a committee to investigate, convert flows of capital, including free ports. evelyn raina joined the investigations. she's a member of the austrian social democrats in the european parliament. yankee hercules, nice keep didn't for we've heard about this freeport in luxembourg, before is it like alibaba? if you go up to the cave and say, open sesame and a wealth of treasures appear via v, we wanted to see what's there for the thought. how is it stored? is it cleared through customs who control of that sort? is there tax evasion? by here while the owners, i think the ang tumor, the committee eventually received an invitation to the luxembourg freeport. in february 2018 is east and bunker, and then it looks like a bunker nor were present seen, but we couldn't see what was stored there been. ah, i was curious that i said i got i left with many more questions than i had before. i see and the answers were very few and far between sia sash bailey, an international agreement on the disclosure of bank account data went into effect in 2017. since then, it's been much harder to hide money in banks. investment in ours and other valuable collectibles has been increasing. and these objects need to be stored. this is danny shortish. it's not just switzerland with customs warehouse as me listen, should i, germany, luxembourg, austria accustomed warehouses have become a business model and give often. but not all warehouses valuables are automatically duty free. art forwarding firm koonce trends in vienna office. 35000 square meters of high security self storage tax is being paid as normal on most of the work stored here. owner berg vickers is planning additional warehouses to meet the high demand. the const mccloud says, seo stock for in the those of the art market has certainly changed a lot of and so his own work and we used to cater almost exclusively to museums there. gary saw something like that. there's been a shipment of people with money are investing more in real estate, an arm to says this is a growing trend and will continue to grow. it's fashionable, it's cheap because it's what people do now when it's and we profit we are and profit the and been ugly, off the phone. in most e u countries, private companies can apply to the government from license to operate a customs warehouse, including austria. mir 1st eloquent spirit there at the open lag. mm hm. like almost all our food is with storage. we also have duty free storage. it's quite small, but we do offer it. we have a lot of collectors with objects other than ours, like gold and wine vein, they use our storage and often place items in the customs warehouse. won't even off pallet with us in sort of either like our lawson vickers doesn't believe her clients would be able to avoid paying taxes on these valuables forever . the sofa leg is also the custer's warehouse. is often just a stop gap because they don't know where they want the goods to go yet the info. and before it gets attacked somewhere, they keep it in duty free storage. i got them when it comes out, it will get tax. as of it, it's not an issue here like it is in hotspots like luxembourg, geneva and singapore. austria is different. this is an installation of the fi. if a collector brings the sculpture with a $1000000.00 to austria from abroad, it would normally cost a $130000.00 euros in tax tax. isn't jew as long as an item is in customer storage that will everything eventually leave and become taxable? what's the value of everything here? burg vickers won't commit. ah, you ought warehouses of also spring up in germany. in the small town of mining and the state owned land is bank touring and bank had a cash storage facility built in the 19 ninety's to day it houses are under the names and char depole. customs warehouses were once strictly transit zones. nowadays valuables can stay here indefinitely. what's fueling the rising demand? awe from his office in manhattan, not far from the major auction houses at ford efforts, diesel has long noticed the growing freeport trend. it showed me emotional long and long. i'd been wondering for a long time why we didn't have a freeport here in the united states. and i wanted to create one, but i never got round to it and be fulfilled on. finally, 5 years ago i decided to do it with the delaware freeport. very successful, it also material afford the u. s. states of delaware has no z a t my. he is a top notation for art as an investment many and invest of in all this is ligim and guilt in const on. if i'm an investor and i put my money into art, i don't want to pay import sales tax on my art on my investment me in the same way that you wouldn't pay tax if you bought shares. sorry. the other. that's the exact reason for free ports so that investors can store there aren't there and not be burdened with tax issue was logon and sir, listen as of this is sinful, isn't a little shy on this philosophy. but diesel also stresses that the items become taxable as soon as they leave storage. so what's the advantage? lou? we received a message from geneva. the free port has a new director and claire beach, who's willing to talk ha ha ha. yeoman thought my plan is best, very brief and very extensive salons. i want to maintain our excellent alcantar, because we've been around for 130 years. and now we're the world's biggest freeport, specialized in art and valuable items like vintage wines and classic cars. and this is because we offer true excellence as your service quality. i exceed all as well as neutrality. and with, with the neutrality else, have offices are we're not allowed to film inside the storage rooms and hallways. instead, beach introduces us to various service providers within the free port, including art, restore andrea hoffman, even services within the duty free zone, or only test once the object leaves as it's been, i say, spun sonata and i've been working at the freeport for 27 years it's an absolute privilege to work. here is us, as you know, we're all working together and our concern is the art ever to serve the art teacher design owned on 15th to the const took him the director emphasizes that free port serve primarily to preserve and protect important works of art. the common suspicions that free ports facilitate tax evasion, stem from a misunderstanding beach says can't on dish could say calling this place. tax free storage is wrong next. really, it's a misnomer before it's a man and have you longer misunderstanding. these are haps, out of ignorance, zera the tax is simply suspended, move as if it's on an airplane that's bar mic on his arm. and when the plane lands, she's funny, it will be cat. yep. click on where it landed. was at vaccines julia that any session will all the taxes really be paid in the end. we travel to jersey, the channel island and renown tax haven. tens of thousands of offshore companies registered here. john christenson is from here and was an economic advisor to the government. he then founded the tax justice network, which aims to shut down tax havens, lead rental secrecy, and ext is basically a whiff, ranking, the way in which countries and naval law clubs, ultra high net wealthy individuals and high net high wealthy individuals to hide wealth of shore clearly, reports being used as an important part of offshore wealth management. clearly a lot of wealth is being shifted to free ports. and clearly it belongs in any index which tries to, to understand the ways in which countries like luxembourg or singapore, or switzerland, or deliberately and knowingly creating this optional space. well, very wealthy people can hide it's obvious to him how free ports of really being used while it is true that all taxes payable, once the goods leave storage, many countries may have deliberately left loopholes to attract the money of the super rich. who's. so look, here we have a very wealthy person actually lives in europe, wants to buy work about who it is. this is a horrid painting, which is an option in new york for 50000000 euros. in practice, the work of one takes the go to paris is going to be put into a freeport facility in luxembourg. so it can fly straight from new york into locks and we'll get so there it is. but actually this person doesn't want to disclose the tool that it belongs to. so she's going to put it through a company which is registered in the british virgin islands. there it, it sits between the work about itself and the ultimate beneficial other. and that's a further safeguard the company shares don't actually belong to this person that they belong to this trust. and this trust has been established with trustees lawyers in jersey. and there's no information at all about who owns that from. what's happened here if you set up a vehicle for avoiding tax with no wealth taxes imposed on this is no capital gains tax imposed in this there's no value added tax note in full tariff, no inheritance taxes whatsoever. in other words, this is a totally tax free structure and even better the work of up my double in value and there'll be no tax actually hosted on it at any stage. christensen has made serious accusations against freeport in the countries that use them. he says he's familiar with systems that you show companies from his time on the island, but other used with free poets. we ask an inside is used to work for a company owned by freeport, founder equals yay. he eventually agrees to an interview on so by the ma unfreeze, that's a bit suspicion sentence. as soon as you start talking about it, you'll be barred from working there as a lawyer, intermediary art expert or whatever, thoughts. all right, and because you're seen as a traders with someone who threatens the entire network, i don't work in that environment anymore and i have no interest in working there ever again. this is pretty much, that's the i've been thinking a lot about what we actually did there and after the and the opportunities on offer there that i didn't even really notice before i knew i just like to make it a bit clear that these opportunities exist to horner to him, vice in this movie, can surely after the free fortune, singapore, i've been busy. i apparently invited people from various high caliber sectors for 2 or i'm homeless. and if you play the vine alarm in cuz we were in a room with lots of very expensive wines in huge quantities and i'd say yeah, supposedly the largest quantities of certain vintages of the best french red wines were stored there. i came and opposite that was a completely different room that had smaller rooms within it, like safe deposit boxes and a bank. i know a volume of on for gold and there were smaller ones for diamonds, not climb over here 50 a month. the free portion cinnapool is right by the airport golden diamonds can allegedly be brought into storage straight from the tarmac, even anonymously. the 2nd is enough was estimate us if you called alice city i english. it was in singapore that it 1st occurred to me to ask, what's going on here? why are we always dealing with these entities that are nothing more than shall companies either to lend on? you actually give it some thought if you find yourself asking, like who is the customer here? hiding behind the company, name sunrise, limited or whatever. hidden in the british virgin islands can hear you designs can . it could be anybody dimensions. they could be people with sanctions. dictators. it could be kim jong own. i and you just carry on doing business there anyway, with no idea who's riches. you're hiding these lice. miles's ice. if assets are deposited under a shell company to the freeport operators really have no way of knowing who truly owns them. actually yankee found, montage arm literally and can choose to use an offshore construct. so you see that form of creativity, not only in the art world applications, you see it in every legal and financial field leader, men, the kids. but we don't have the slightest interest in facilitating or any kind of an eagle activity or an actor k, a t for those under many legal there are people working to shed light on these constructs. john christensen monitors dubious financial transactions around the world. while we're filming, he discovers a new lead in the us shady business deals. the still surfacing from the panama papers a report that just come up from the u. s. senate, the subcommittee on investigations. and they're talking about, ah, russian oligarchs using the art market to hold wealth. and lord m launder money. they're referring in particular to one family arcady rothenberg, who apparently was holding does your blog works in germany? the us report isn't about tax evasion, but rather the evasion of international sanctions were told, the system they use is the same. the documents prove how confidence of russian president vladimir putin used offshore companies to trade valuable paintings undetected. they, by moving funds, a german customs warehouse served as a hub, boris and a cardi rothenberg allegedly moved millions like this because of the russian annexation of crimea. they were under sanctions and when most allowed to do business in the west crystal trout theatre in germany worked together with john christensen. he knows how rare it is to uncover these transactions when the thing is still high. so caused audition, so vish via and that's why this case is so important that it shows for the 1st time that customs warehouses in germany a being used for dubious transactions. i'm yeah, a year ago when we carried out the financial secrecy index and the ministry of finance said that customs warehouses weren't a problem in germany. they said there were no cases of abuse and it's not a problem here is paul, as a spot was kind problem on a thin metal. but now we have a case that shows it is a problem rate and fire. probably anonymous paintings, subject to us sanctions have really arrived in germany, been stored and moved on unrecognised to the league in deutschland, uncommon, gallagher on one account by doug a short right. official, man, the art works of sanctioned russian. oligarchs was stored here in franklin nickolowan in the warehouses of hassan camp. jim, this largest art forwarding company. it has locations here and abroad. it was the investigation in the us that brought this to light. what else is stored here? owner and managing director hands. if al schneider agrees to an interview, we have a tenant sidebottom him. laga the vices nisha up her a booster dust. we're not sitting on any time. bombs in the warehouse. certainly not up. we had no knowledge about oden bag fault that came out through the report on the film. huh. it was just a company that brought objects to our warehouse class. mr. bonsa was the curator who was putting together a collection that he bought at auctions in europe and around the world, often yell biological a perfectly normal processed, coughed football, no matter for ah, in 2019 a representative of the russian oligarchs, shell companies had the paintings transported from hassan camp to moscow yard yvonne as o'malladge, they were stored normally just like they would be for any one else. there was nothing special about a golf kind of bizarre not did hasn't, can't even know or should have known who the paintings belong to the economy. the truck listened because we can't track the economic beneficiaries. we can guess if we're dealing with a scenario in germany endorsement, but we can't as a rule, it's also not our job as a freight for order. i do exactly what customs requires of me and that's enough. the thought the paintings were, was over $18000000.00 us dollars in total their present whereabouts remains, unknown have been no further investigation since the case in germany. ready swiss finance, la monica roared, thinks governments need to investigate further. at any shop, a decent vanished guineas. i read this report like had good thriller, mickey mouse, the home, and i couldn't put it down on gratian or full half. john grisham had written it. i'd be saying, well, how does he do it this? impunity, this lack of sanctions is only possible because the art market is the last significant market there that is not regulated. they mock the theft, least likely. that's it. with most of the lose in germany. does anyone even check who owns the assets and customs warehouses? fabio democracy was the vice chair of the left party in the gym and parliament until 2021. he asked the ministry of finance because he had concerns about a tax loophole. loom on south wrangler to storing valuables anonymously. and judy free lends itself to tax evasion. it's anonymous office. you can't be traced meals, which obviously shook the response from the ministry of finance confirmed his suspicions booked. shocked by honestly winged finding himself on the situation with customs warehouses is disturbing because there are no obligations for owners to report assets. they're kept of us. it's not recorded who own something like an expensive painting or but who has it stored? good. ownership can even be transferred during storage without having to inform customs authorities doesn't go. hm. and on average, on site inspections, happen only once every 3 years as the one that says everything's, the system doesn't really work. no one knows what's going on, like the whole toyota to finish. i wish my sons bottles, the ministry admitted that it's completely legal to store valuable items under a shell company for an unlimited amount of time. in 2020 alone art and valuables worth more than 900000000 euros were placed in duty free storage in germany. relatively little in an international comparison. but how much of this is tax evasion? a single artwork by a major artist can fetch hundreds of millions today. how many pieces like this stored in geneva? fremy paganini also believes that free ports are systematically used to avoid taxes . and that freeport entrepreneur equal ve may have used these loopholes himself to help a russian billionaire did a whole country. i've it was sure he bought of jeff emerson. believe bouvier got to know dmitri reba love love and offer to acquire paintings for him. a little he sold them on to rebel of love for substantial profits. it's generally assumed that a large part of the deal between these 2 men was negotiated within the freeport in bond patty, the tablo. since they started doing business together in 2003, vivia has sold them as $2000000000.00 worth of paintings to rebel of live it dog on, on a heel. ah said the fair. so on to the case of the salvador monday, we leave movie a, bought it for 80000000 euros alco and sold it for roughly 127000000 to saw to set this is a fair law, said the mall and all of these transactions happened in secret within the freeport like and they were not taxed, cossacks your keener, so ball up was if you scalable as punk any suspects there may be regular art sales taking place within the jeanie, the freeport that the world and the tax authorities know nothing about. when asked about the freeport dedicated sales room, director beach said it wasn't unusual. said that i saw seen cesar it's not interesting. it's a room just like this one where you last so few. yeah. but with less furniture i cannot be. there's just a picture rails down there so far and a spotlight for illumination, she does on the term of the $38.00 paintings that evo via allegedly sole, to dimitry ruble of life, including the salvador monday. another piece stands out, water serpents to buy austria's. gustavo clamped. the 2013 south price was over a $183000000.00 more than $50000000.00. more than what river loaf left paid for the salvador monday. ah, museum director alfred virginia is a leading expert on. clint is also very familiar with art sales at customs warehouses. the country was eating as every day, but i can talk about these matters, frankly, because i'm completely independent living. i don't charge for my services. i'm perhaps one of the few who doesn't seem to be the vince of whenever a clint painting changes hands on their uncles. so there have been hardly any transfers without nosing near the baby. when apiece was millions, change his hands. a buyer wants to be absolutely certain that it's genuine. an appraisal always confirms the authenticity ah, 1st dividing and was surprised to see how the painting can be sold without ever leaving the warehouse. i'll get as close to a bit of a buck a crate, comes out of se, storage room number $125.00, which is the sellers sold of infants wants. then it's packaged back of your goes back into the crate and the crate disappears off again. to the bias room office number 235 ordered from from pres. usually nothing ever gets out about the sales. but business partners, bouvier and ruble of live a facing off in a high profile legal battle over prices who v a reportedly now lives in singapore. he didn't respond to our request for an interview. let me hug and he is especially interested in with the movie and his geneva company, naturally cooter pay tax on their profits at the time. i don't miss your v 3 d. i knew the a says it wasn't my company, natural locals that sold those objects, so it was off shore companies that can't be taxed in switzerland at more than 20 percent out. doyle and they're abroad anyway, so move on switzerland. there's nothing to see here. your dog glasses, so swiftly ayana while according to swiss media at the geneva tax offices, now investigating a tax debt of $330000000.00 swiss francs. free ports, discrete duty free warehouses, the treasures such as ours and goals, classic cars and wine. a system for tax evasion and shady deals, say critics, a place where legal loopholes can conceal. the true owners and governments are reluctant to pass regulation. we've seen a shift towards a world in which politicians think it's their job to attract investment by making huge concessions, regulatory concessions and tax concessions will let you bring your staff a your money. your wealth will manage your welfare and will keep it secret. why is it so difficult for governments to close these loopholes? and dawson kept in germany. there are very strong lobbies for opaqueness and anonymous gold transactions. the german precious metals association is very strong . i have so is the foundation for family businesses. but i make a lot of noise when there are cause to increase transparency and scotia benzo. like all the one that calls love. the reason why the art market is not regulated is because the art market is good at lobby. i think even in switzerland, clayborne, particularly several efforts to combat money laundering have already failed against politicians. didn't agree to take the necessary steps and things like that for turn . mm. and the facilities continued to expand in 2020 a new art warehouse was opened at le bourget airport in paris by she knew an art logistics company that has taken over the business of freeport, entrepreneur e 4 via in geneva. when asked whether or not this was a customs warehouse, and whether or not he provided anonymous storage for shell 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