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ARTinvestment.RU   12 октября 2016

Intergovernmental Commission of UNESCO on the return of cultural property to their countries of origin have called on the government to strengthen control over duty-free stores. They are suspected of possession of illegally taken out values

Appropriate session intergovernmental Commission in Paris, published on the website of UNESCO, dated 30 September 2016. It does not immediately require to shoot them all. And that's the only good news for Freeport. Because in General, the clouds over the duty-free stores are gathering.

Silence Freeport favors not only honest businessmen but also for the crooks involved in the illegal trade of artifacts. Here in March we wrote about how one of the Freeport of Geneva, not without difficulty got into the light of Etruscan treasures. The dealer was hiding in Switzerland illegally obtained artifacts to Italy for 15 years. That is, the problem was acute long before the aggravation of the situation in Libya, Syria, Egypt.

Since then, a lot of new conflict zones. And Freeport have increased. Over the past five years the vault opened in Singapore, Monaco Luxembourg, and in Beijing. In 2017, the new Freeport will appear in Shanghai. Generally reporthow there is quite a lot. In the European Union these stores are more than forty. In only one of Switzerland more than ten, half of which specializiruetsya on the storage of works of art. There is also the world's largest repository of La Praille, the area of which is half occupied by works of art. That is, this service today is very popular. And therefore increasingly attracts the attention of law enforcement.

This is doubly weird because preparty — is not "the pirate Bay", and certainly not what-нибудь impregnable fortress. Yes, there is not going to ask too many questions. But the requirements for domestic cargo Declaration, there are quite strict. And law enforcement agencies triparty not interfere. So, the Swiss police hardly had to storm the store in Geneva to to uncover a cell of British art-дилера Robin symes. If the law all of them will open.

But-видимому, even the existing requirements for openness Freeport governments and UNESCO now seems insufficient. Assume that the situation riportami can develop in the same logic as with the Swiss banks. Will remain a high quality service, taking care of the transportation, storage, optimization of taxes and duties in the city. But from the privacy of cargoes and their owners will remain horns and legs, as they were stored from centuries of Bank secrecy. In the distant Asian jurisdictions, these changes will happen later. And in Europe — is much faster.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Sources: news.artnet.com, unesco.org, artinvestment.ru