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Now Interpol can hunt them
For the last five years they have been wanted – by the Danish Police. Now they can be hunted – by Interpol, which means the police in most countries in the world. The Danish State Attorney have – according to legal changes of law – now made it possible to ask Interpol to go for and arrest the four fugitive topleaders in the Teachers Group, who runs the Tvind-empire, that owns Humana People to People. Amongst them the founder and number one Mogens Amdi Petersen.
The Danish Police have tried to find them in the last five years – since September 2006, when the Danish State Attorney decided to take them to the Danish High Court for tax fraud and embezzlement. Four of them had gone free in a trial earlier that year, one of them, Sten Byrner was sentenced to one year imprisonment. But they all fled Denmark, and the police were therefore unable to deliver the appeal directly to them (one of them, Malene Gunst, was caught in Heathrow Airport, London, October 1 2009 coming in on an airplane from Mexico). The personal delivery of the appeal was – until now – the only legal procedure for an appeal trial. That’s also the reason the Danish police have not could ask Interpol to go for them. Only the police in the Schengen- and EU-countries have since September 14 2006 legally been able to withhold them in airports for instance – but only until an official Danish representative could hand over the appeal warrant.
Now the laws have been changed. And the Danish State Attorney have therefore a couple of weeks ago (July 14) published the appeal in the Danish States magazine for official announcements (Statstidende). That’s sufficient. And that means, that Interpol all over the world can be mobilized to look for and arrest the four Tvind-leaders, Mogens Amdi Petersen, Kirsten Ambrosius Larsen, Christie Pipps, Sten Byrner.
Untill now the Danish Police have only had limited help from Interpol. But that limited help made it possible to withhold one of the original five fugitive Tvind-leaders in Heathrow Airport in October 2009. The police in Mexico informed that same day the Danish Police that Malene Gunst was on a plane from Mexico City heading for London. The British authorities withheld Malene Gunst in the airport until a representative from the Danish state could deliver the appeal personally to her.
The Danish Police had already late 2006 asked Mexico to find out if Malene Gunst and the other fugitive leaders could be found on Tvinds new luxury headquarter in San Juan de las Pulgas, Baja California in Mexico. The Mexican authorities replied in March 2007 that to their knowledge the five Tvind-leaders were not living there. In both February, March, May and July 2008 representatives from the Danish state officially asked the Mexicans for cooperation. The resultat of it was the tip on October 1 2009 that lead to the withhold of Malene Gunst in the London-airport.
In September 2006 the Danish Police also contacted Interpol in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, where Tvinds Humana-organisations official headquarters are placed. Interpol in South Africa reportedin December that year back to the Danish Police about the fugitive leaders travelling by plane between South Africa and Zimbabwe. An official contact from the Danish Police to the Zimbabwean authorities and Interpol in that country asking for help to find the fugitive leaders was made in February 2009. The Zimbabweans never answered the request. Tvind and Humana have always been protected by the Zimbabwean dictatorship lead by Robert Mugabe.
In the first Danish trial there were eight accused Tvind-leaders. There was not raised an appeal against two of them. But there was against Poul Jørgensen, the right hand of Mogens Amdi Petersen taking care of their legal business in Denmark. He was found by the police in Denmark and brought to trial in the High Court, where he was sentenced to two and a half year imprisonment.