Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, 25 May 2003
In spite of bankruptcy and scandals, the controversial clothes collection organisation UFF in Sweden starts again.
On 20 January this year, UFF in Sweden stopped to pay. But the organisation which went bankrupt was UFF in Stockholm which stood surety for collecting and handling of clothes in whole Sweden and ran second hand shops.
The organisation which exists now is UFF in Sweden, which earlier administrated assistance matters, writes Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
With money from other associations which are connected to the so called Tvind movement, which UFF is a part of, the organisation was able to buy about one thousand old UFF-containers from the assets of the bancruptcy. It
also took over seven lorries.
Now UFF starts again with the main office in Stockholm, a regional office in Ängelholm and shops in Stockholm, Linköping, Helsingborg and Malmö.
30 of 148 employees can keep their work.
Simultaneously with the new start in Sweden, this week the court case against the leader of the Tvind movement, Mgens Amdi Petersen, will start again. Petersen was on the “wanted” list of the Danish police for 23 years until he was arrested on 16 february 2002 in USA.
This court case will be Denmark’s hitherto most comprehensive one.
