Secrets of hotel Drouot - with a dedication Pavlik)))

[Pavel]

Сообщение от uriart

Igor Guriev, My friend can not sue him his Euro 500 000 is already 6-th year. It is money and not going to give and to shift it to the experts always something else to someone.
The judicial system is in a hurry.

It looks like your friend is not French. and in general I would appreciate if we would have such an auction, with all its problems. Sellers more than buyers.
I mean let domestic auction with domestic crooks.

[ФАИв]

Here the theme continued on NTV
http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/186627/video/

"Red Collar" from home "Drouot". Sounds like a detective novel, and his final chapters already appends the Paris criminal police investigators. Employees of the auction companies have been de facto sverhkastoy, and became de jure criminal community. Specialization - the kidnapping of the masterpieces of painting and drawing.

The love of art, which changes the scope of the law - NTV correspondent Vadim Glusker.


They are called "red-collar uniform in color: black uniforms with red collar, on which is embroidered with gold their serial number. For all the pomp uniforms hidden technical staff of the famous Paris auction house Drouot »(Drouot), only 110 people.

Moreover, they all come from the same village, the Department of Savoie. And such a privilege - to serve auctions - they provided in 1860 by Emperor Napoleon III, in gratitude for joining the then Italian Savoy to France.

Now the "red collar" - this is already a criminal group. Granted, the auction house employees, such number of ordinary laborer, receiving a salary from three to seven thousand euros, it became clear that they earned more and differently.

Stefan Goffeni, head of the police to search for cultural values: "In the course of large-scale special operation, we arrested 12 people. 11 red collar and one auctioneer. During the search, found a stolen 2004 painting by Gustav Courbet "The Wave", as well as other art objects that disappeared before or during the auction.

At the kidnappers came after one of the heirs of the deceased art collector appealed to the police officers were missing after a visit home "Drouot" antique Chinese porcelain and paintings by Picasso and Courbet paintings. After five years of research have been found and others disappeared from the auction values: Marc Chagall gouache, drawing Jacques Cocteau, Raoul Dufy Silk.

Stephen Goffeni, head of the police to search for cultural values: "The investigation revealed that for decades, they took possession of the vending in the homes of clients' belongings, while the inventory was designed for future bidding. They have access to the storage of art objects, controlled room bidding. This was an extensive network.

The network, which pay dividends. It turns out that many laborers auction Drouot "to buy luxury apartments in downtown Paris. One did and was the owner of nine apartments, the other "collar" bought a restaurant in the same quarter, not far from the main place of work.

After all the revelations, the prerogative of the century and a half residents of Savoy at the bidding ended. Caste "red collar" no longer exists. But the police for his part said that for the year in France steal some two thousand works of art. How many of them came to the auction - a consequence will be more than one year.

 Prikinte, they whirled this case 5 years !!!!!!!!

Ie they were informed about the theft in 2004 and the arrests they made in November-December 2009

[Pavel]

Сообщение от artcol

This newspaper ads?

This bolshechem. It offers about trades in Paris and the outskirts of cities, the results of this auction same place, with the first results on the lots, and then comment it all with beautiful reproductions of a good explanation, where anything bought in a record price again everything from reproductions. It is also advertising as a good thing can be expensive to sell and then, how can a good thing to buy cheap. There, in addition to employees involved many people, the marshal, clients, foreign buyers, sellers simply curious. Mass interesting. Even a footnote that Marchand Galleries prices may be somewhat higher. Ie Marshal bought at auction and sold in the gallery, the difference in your pocket.
All of these articles may be just competing in the EEC and is not worth paying attention. It is better to do an auction.