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Offshore company cited by police as part of money laundering scam

Various other companies

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According to police, a Hong Kong registered company Jambalaya Ltd**, ultimately owned by Jersey-registered company Fairbank, Cooper and Lyle, was used as part of a money laundering scam to pay for the Fazenda Jatoba property in Brazil. We also have on record the names Kadaview Ltd and Seagon Ltd, but with no further information.


Sources:

2001 Danish police report

Danish press



**mentioned in 2001 Danish police report




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Revised: 9th March 2010

The Teachers Group now has a large presence in China on several fronts.

A college and volunteering scheme known as YID or Yunnan Institute of Development has been operating for some time and we have on file several complaints from ex-volunteers and reports about the college.

In Shanghai, a furniture factory and group of companies known as the Trayton Group is closely connected to Tvind, and is run by a Teachers Group member called Simon Lichtenberg.   Lichtenberg is on our list of the 30 top financial wizards in the Teachers Group.    He has twice tried to sue this site.  On both times, lawyers in Denmark successfully defended it.

The Teachers Group is now very active seeking financial grants and making connections with wealthy NGOs inside and outside China.   We are particularly interested in a TG member named Michael Hermann in this connection.



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Do you have any information on Tvind in China?  Please tell us

Revised:  1st March 2010

Offshore companies used to buy luxury apartments

Fisher Island Drive, The Sterling and La Gorce Palace, Miami




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The Miami luxury apartments

Tvind used five BVI registered companies to purchase a total of 14 luxury condos in Miami, Florida.


Markham Corporation – bought 1 condo, used by Amdi Pedersen, on the exclusive Fisher Island


Xoreux Ltd – bought a 2nd condo on Fisher Island for Amdi’s dog. No joke.


Chilton Intervest – bought 4 condos in “The Sterling” complex, Miami.    This company is or was owned by the key Jersey-registered company, Fairbank, Cooper and Lyle.


Ivy Enterprises -  bought 4 condos in the La Gorce Palace complex, Miami


Dorset Estates -  also bought 4 condos at La Gorce Palace




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Other companies



Domoch Ltd and Naim Overseas Ltd – no further information at present



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Revised: 19th March 2010

Six known Teachers Group offshore companies




Several companies feature in Danish police investigation




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FIVE COMPANIES STARTED IN 1991



Five companies were all registered on the same day in May 1991:

Camberley Ltd**

Chatswood Ltd**

Radmoor Ltd**

Rivalta Ltd

Transco Shipping Ltd

Danish police  identified Camberley, Chatswood and Radmoor as central to the Tvind Teachers Group  economy (subsidiaries of two Jersey trusts).  No further information.

Transco Shipping was the most important Teachers Group sales office exporting clothes from Amsterdam to West Africa during 1991-2003. The clothes were exported to local agents in Togo, Benin and Ghana. The scam was identical to that described in this account: An insider reveals the European clothes scams of 1990-2000

All have now been wound up.




**companies mentioned in the 2001 Danish police report




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Other companies



Talata  Ltd (became Westpac Hamlin Ltd) (dissolved) -  was involved in buying a ship, the Animos, which was then re-sold to the Teachers Group (Faelleseje).  An early trustee was Australian academic Henning Bjornlund.  This company was Guernsey registered but run from the Cayman Islands.



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Updated: 8th March 2010

Three Swiss companies

Reports of $32 million transferred into numbered accounts




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We know of three Teachers Group accounts in Switzerland.   Two are tax exempt Associations, while a third is a Societe Anonyme (a company with shareholders).  The Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet reported that in 1996 $32 million was transferred by the Teachers Group from Denmark into Swiss numbered accounts in the ABN/Ambro Bank in Zurich.



THE FEDERATION

The Federation for the Associations Connected to the International Humana People-to-People Movement

Av. Louis-Casai 18, CH 1209 Geneva, Switzerland


Association, registered 6th Dec 2004.

This is the main Humana People-to-People business address.    This is a tax-exempt enterprise.    The five signatories are all senior Teachers Group functionaries.    The tax-free  ‘association’ has a membership list of 36 different Teachers Group bodies, all of whom pay a ‘membership fee’ to the Swiss body.  The membership list is here.   We have documents that show that it is the Swiss ‘Federation’ which arranges payments, ‘donations’ and large money transfers between Europe, the United States and Africa.

We calculate the ‘membership fee’ at about 5.5% of the annual income of each of the 36 Humana bodies  – so for example the US ‘charity’ Planet Aid Inc has paid this Swiss body $2,276,826 since 2004.     Clearly a central body.    Why in Switzerland?    Could it be a highly efficient way of ‘externalising’ money from charity into a Swiss account?

See also:  Five ways Planet Aid secretly moves money to the Teachers Group



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HUMANA AND PLANETAID FINANCE SA

Av. Louis-Casai 18, CH 1209 Geneva, Switzerland


Société anonyme, registered 25th January, 2005.


This is a for-profit Swiss company of the kind that generally has shareholders and is liable to tax.    We have no information at all about this Société anonyme yet, beyond its current roll of three signatories.      Two signatories are known Teachers Group functionaries, a third appears to be a Swiss national.    One of the signatories is  Niels Peter Holst, one of our 30 top TG members.  We believe it is likely this account serves a similar function to the Federation, perhaps with connections to different Teachers Group associations in the United States or Europe.



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GAIA-MOVEMENT TRUST

The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action

Route de l’Aeroport 10, World Trade Center, Geneva (Dec 2000)



Association, registered 16th March 1999.


This ‘association’ is advertised with a Swiss flag all over the world on Gaia clothes boxes in the USA and in the UK on Green World Recycling boxes.  Interestingly, among the signatories for the last ten years have been two Teachers Group members resident in Fiji – which leads us to believe that the Gaia ‘brand’ may be connected with a funding stream intended to finance the Teachers Group’s next building project, at Taveuni on Fiji.   Other signatories include two from our TG top 30, Jonas Israel and Soren Sorensen.

Enquiries shortly after it opened indicated it was a mail drop in an administrative Swiss office block, with no indication of any real ‘environmental projects’.



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Numbered bank accounts?



According to reports, the Danish journalist Kurt Simonsen wrote an article in Ekstra Bladet in 1997 stating that the previous year, $32 million had been transferred by the Teachers Group from Denmark to Switzerland, to numbered accounts at the ABN/Ambro Bank in Zurich.    We would appreciate any further information.


The information sent to us (in French) is:   “Kurt Simonsen écrivait en janvier 1997 dans Extrabladet que 32 mio de dollars ont été transférés en 1996 du Danemark vers la Suisse. Simonsen donne les numéros de comptes et les propriétaires à la Bikuben-Bank ‘e0 Copenhague et de la ABN/Amro-Bank à Zurich. Dans les deux cas il s’agit de compagnies du ‘groupe’, représentées notamment par Jytte Nielsen, la dirigeante la plus en vue au sein d’Humana en Europe et en Belgique.”



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Updated: 7th September 2010




Humana used clothes trading

Shops

Gathering material – please help

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We know that thousands of tons of used clothes collected by Humana in western Europe are trucked to Lithuania for sale or onward transit to eastern Europe – part of Humana’s complex tax fraud and transfer mispricing scam to pass ‘charity’ profits into tax haven bank accounts.



NEWS



Relabelling clothes as Gucci and Armani?

According to information passed on by a truck driver,good quality clothes collected in western Europe are being sent by Humana to Lithuanaia where they are relabelled with new Gucci and Armani labels.  The clothes are then sold in Africa and Brazil for big sums.  Is this true?  Do you know anything about this?  If so please tell us.  Original email.



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Baltic Textile Company


Baltic Textile Trading – links with Humana Belgium


Viking Group – Tvind?



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Do you know anything about Humana in the Baltic?  Please tell us.


Last revised 8th August 2010



Humana operates in Latvia

We have a considerable quantity of information filed on Humana in Latvia.   We are aware of close links between the Scandinavian used clothes trade by UFF and Humana in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and its links with Humana Latvia.  We would like more information on this.

We are looking for a Latvian volunteer to help with translations, and to send us information about Humana in all the Baltic States.  Please get in touch.   feedback@tvindalert.com.

Key Teachers Group offshore companies

Five active companies in land, property and business

Dissolved companies involved in used-clothes money laundering 1989-2005.







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FAIRBANK, COOPER AND LYLE**

(FCL Group)

holding company, plantations, used clothes businesses




This very major Teachers Group offshore company owns and operates scores of plantations in central America, the used clothes company U’SAgain, and a clothes broker in the USA.  Parent company of Argyll Smith and other companies registered in Jersey.    Still active.   This company is discussed in detail in the 2001 Danish police report.

See our detailed file on FCL Group




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ARGYLL SMITH & CO LTD**

property

This Jersey property company owns:

• Five of the colleges – in Britain, the USA and South Africa.

1. Winestead Hall (CICD)
2. IICD in Massacusetts
3. IICD in Michigan
4. CCTG in Caliornia
5. KNEC in Durban

• The Mexico complex at San Juan de las Pulgas.

One way the Teachers Group creams off money for itself is by charging extortionate rents from the colleges, thus guaranteeing a steady flow of tax free money into offshore company Argyll Smith and its parent company FCL. This could be what happens to quite a lot of the money fundraised by volunteers. We have evidence of this practice on file.  Cited in the 2001 Danish police report.

Website: argyllsmith.com



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THE HOBBHOUSE INVESTMENT CO LTD**

holding company?




Since 1988, this is the oldest Teachers Group Jersey company still running, identified in the 2001 Danish police report as likely to be a very major Tvind offshore holding company, but we have no further details at the moment.   Still operates.




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ATLANTIC FARMING LTD

plantations?




Since 1990 (changed name from Tropical Farming [Atlantic] 1993).  No further details at the moment.  Still operates.




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BAHIA FARMING BRAZIL LTD**

property in Brazil, money transfers



Farming, founded 1991.    Another company used to channel money from various Tvind companies and associations, including UFF/Humana, for purchase of $12m Fazenda Jatoba ranch in 1994 (according to the 2001 Danish police report).   No further details at the moment.  Still operates.




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The FARMERS TRUST**

holding company




This company is specifically mentioned in the 2001 Danish police report as a Jersey-registered company at the heart of Teachers group finances.  However we can find no trace of it on the Jersey company register.  Information please.







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DISSOLVED COMPANIES




Four companies in a used clothes scam 1989-2005

These four companies were registered in Jersey but run from Gibraltar. The complex money laundering scheme they operated involving Humana used clothes charity boxes is described here.



One World Channel Ltd** (later namechanged to ) Holland House (1989 – 2004) Dissolved. Initially illegal money transfers to Brazil, then laundering of money from old clothes in Amsterdam.


Holland Enterprises Ltd (1995 – 2005) Dissolved. Laundering of money from old clothes in Amsterdam



Holland Trading Ltd (1994 – 2002) Dissolved. Laundering of money from old clothes in Amsterdam


World Wide Suppliers (1994 – 2002) Dissolved. Laundering of money from old clothes in Amsterdam



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Other companies



Argyll Smith Industrial Developments Ltd (2000 – 2003) Dissolved.  Purpose unknown.


Buckeye Ltd ** (1991-2002) Dissolved.    Illegal money transfers to  Brazil through Malaysia.


Coriander Holdings Ltd (1995- 2004).  Dissolved.   Purpose unknown.


Goliath Services (became) Cedex Pac (1987 – 2002)  Dissolved.   This was the first TG company on Jersey.  Providing clothes collection boxes to Humana UK.


Jacaranda (became) Kirchheiner Bros** (1987 – 2005)  Dissolved.   Said by police to be very major Jersey holding company.


Jayhawk Ltd **(1991 – 2002)  Dissolved.   Illegal money transfers to  Brazil through Malaysia.



Sources:

2001 Danish police report

Danish press

Jersey company register



Companies marked ** are mentioned in the 2001 Danish police report




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Updated 9th March 2010

Offshore holding company

Ownership of Trayton furniture business in China.

Links on this page restored




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Trayton Holdings

The Trayton Group of companies in China is concerned with furniture, computers and design.    It is explicitly linked with the Teachers Group through Simon Lichtenberg.

According to the Danish press (Berlingske Tidende,26th January 2000), the holding company, Trayton Holdings, was registered in January 1995 by Teachers Group members Kirstin Fuglsbjerg and Neils Peter Holst.

Fuglsbjerg is wanted for questioning by Danish police.



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Other companies

Nellcombe Ltd: A company by this name or a similar name has been said to be registered in the Isle of Man, and associated with the Teachers Group complex in Mexico. But we cannot find it listed on the Isle of Man company register. Help, please?



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Updated 8th March 2010

Humana has collected clothes in Portugal for years.  We have information from many Portuguese ex-volunteers.

Marco’s story

Portuguese news investigation (2002)