This restored page tells of a luxury beachside villa, landholdings, and Teachers Group money washing through the world’s most notorious offshore tax haven.
Archive for November, 2009
The guru: the story of Amdi Petersen
On November - 5 - 2009
Our newly rewritten biography of the fugitive Teachers Group founder and leader, Amdi Petersen, now restored to the site.
If you can add to our biography, please contact us.
Finnish TV – 'Eyewitness – Rags to Riches?'
On November - 2 - 2009
Silminnäkijä: Ryysyillä rikkauksiin?
Exclusive – a 30-minute report by Finnish TV’s channel 2, about UFF in Finland, exposes the links between UFF, the Teachers Group and the senior TG leader Poul Jörgensen, currently serving a jail sentence in Denmark for fraud.
UFF is the sister organisation to Humana, founded in Finland in 1989, and dominates the collection of used clothes and the second hand clothing market in Finland. However UFF Finland is shrouded in secrecy.
”Eyewitness” decided to visit Denmark to gather information about the background of UFF. The programme describes how the Tvind empire saw daylight in Denmark and how idealism turned into greed and led to systematic economic crimes. The programme goes on to reveal that UFF is a tiny link in a vast net of organisations led by the so-called Teachers Group, and also reveals that Poul Jörgensen, the founder of UFF Finland, was sentenced to a 2,5 year jail-sentence for economic crimes in January 2009.
Frede Jakobsen, Danish editor of www.tvindalert.com, was interviewed for the programme.
For more information on the programme and how to watch it until December 3rd see our Finland page or visit http://areena.yle.fi. The TV website and programme are in Finnish.
Witness: Inside Richmond Vale Academy
On November - 2 - 2009
Horror stories from inside the Teachers Group ‘volunteering’ college on the Caribbean island of St Vincent.
One former volunteer writes: ‘There is no teaching, they lie and they exploit local people.’ So many students have left this college in disgust this year they have set up a Facebook page called Richmond Vale Academy Alert.
We have made a new page on St Vincent including Daniel’s story and other insights. (Can anyone tell us if Tvind still owns the big banana plantation on the island? And what’s this about cotton fields?)
Picture gallery: the clothes bins
On November - 2 - 2009
At last! A simple gallery of photographs of used clothes bins operated by the Teachers Group around the world – Planet Aid, U’SAgain, Gaia, Green World, Humana, UFF, College Aid, IICD. Are there others?
Please send us your photographs. We particularly need up to date pictures of DAPP UK bins (and shops) and any others missing from our gallery. If you see a bin you think is TG, please send us a picture and we will check it out.
