Last updated: 30 June 2010
Some material and links to be added
| 1. Country by country listing
2. Used clothes 4. Hot money 5. Landholdings |
8. Police investigation and trials
9. Who’s Who 10. Official actions |
15. News reports, books, TV and radio
16. Is it a cult? 17. The history 18. TG web sites 19. Key documents 20. Links |
1. A country by country listing
Where the Teachers Group now operates (2009)
2. Used clothes
The Teachers Group is certainly one of the biggest used clothes collectors in the world, in at least 30 countries. All its clothes are sold. Some of its bins are charities or 501(c)3 s, others just plain commercial enterprises that look like charities.
Picture Gallery: TG used clothes bins
These are the names it uses in the used-clothing business:
| DAPP UK |
TS Recycling |
Where else can I donate my used clothes?
3. The colleges and volunteer schemes
The colleges and volunteering-abroad schemes are an important part of the Teachers Group system. The colleges generate income from an offshore rent racket and student fees. At the same time the volunteer schemes guarantee a steady flow of new recruits and present a ‘humanitarian’ image.
What’s it like to volunteer with Tvind?
CCTG California (USA)
IICD Massachusetts (USA)
IICD Michigan (USA)
CICD (UK)
DRH Norway or One World Institute (Norway)
Richmond Vale Academy (St Vincent, Caribbean)
Yunnan Institute for Development (Republic of China)
Kwa-Zulu Natal Experimental College (South Africa)
DRH Sikkim (India)
The Tvind School Centre (Denmark)
Any other ‘DRH’ College (for example in Berlin, Moscow, Italy, Brazil)
Hot money: the offshore rent racket
A list of alternative volunteer organisations
4. Hot money
The Teachers Group has created a highly profitable, global commercial empire on the back of its charity and ‘humanitarian’ activities. We know the businesses it runs. To extract cash from the charity side, it operates a large and changing network of shell companies, hidden bank accounts and offshore companies investing in property and commerce. We have compiled a list of 225 different Teachers Group enterprises and companies, together with some clues to the ‘hot money’ accountancy tricks that connect them.
An A-Z listing of all TG companies and enterprises
Hot money
Five ways Planet Aid secretly moves money to the Teachers Group
How they use DAPP/ADPP to skim off money in Africa
The offshore company that controls huge landholdings
An insider reveals the European clothes scams of 1990-2000
The Gibraltar used-clothes laundry – how they did it
Why the UK Charity Commission closed down Humana UK
Two luxury apartments on a private ‘millionaire’s island’
A secret memo from finance officer Niels Holst on how to launder cash from Angola
Offshore havens
Companies in: Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Switzerland, Hong Kong, British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands
Danish fraud investigation and trial
The Danish police report, 2001
5. Landholdings
Commercial landholdings acquired by the Teachers Group in the Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Russia and the Pacific
A list of landholdings and plantations around the world
The offshore company that controls huge landholdings
6. Business
Several ‘legitimate’ companies run by the Teachers Group. Not associated with any humanitarian objectives, they appear straight forward businesses but often have an underlying commercial relationship with other Teachers Group enterprises and are run by TG members.
Trayton Group (China)
Furniture manufacture
McCorry and Co (Malaysia)
Forestry
Friends Forever (Zimbabwe)
African sculpture
CAT-LINK (China)
Chinese-African imports
7. Exclusive properties
Luxury homes, an ocean-going yacht, well-guarded office buildings and a mysterious complex in the Mexican desert, mostly reserved for senior Teachers Group leaders. Luxury apartments paid for using money transferred through offshore funds
The Cayman Islands c 1983-1993
Beachfront villa
Fisher Island, Miami 1991-2002
Two luxury apartments on a private ‘millionaire’s island’
The Sterling, Miami c 1993-2002
Apartments in expensive condo.
The ‘Butterfly McQueen c 1993 – ?
A 39-metre luxury ocean-going luxury yacht, valued at $7m
Humana headquarters, Zimbabwe opened 1998
Ultra-modern administrative building with special Teachers Group area
Compound in Mexico opened 2008
Palatial, private complex with cathedral-like buildings in the desert
House in Plagborgvej, Grindsted
Well-guarded residential retreat with pool and indoor tennis courts
Teachers Group Danish administrative centre
Land and property said to be under construction in Fiji or on another Pacific island
8. Police investigations and court cases 2000 – 2010
In 2001 Amdi Petersen was arrested in the USA and extradited to stand trial in Denmark. This police Case Summary details the prosecution case. It is a complex document but a summary is here. It identifies key companies, some still trading, used to launder money. Most of the individuals named are still active in Teachers Group schools, colleges, used-clothes charities and businesses around the world.
The original 2001 police document – ‘Exhibit C’
This original PDF is in a format that cannot be searched
A searchable copy of the full police document
Exactly the same text as ‘Exhibit C’, but searchable by keyword
A brief summary of the police document
Written by Tvind Alert
9. Who’s who in the Teachers Group
An alphabetical listing and biographical summaries of some of the most senior and interesting Tvind Teachers, where they are and what they are doing.
An A-Z of Teachers Group members
The 30 most interesting TG members
Five Teachers on the run from police
10. Action against the Teachers Group
Denmark is the only country where the Teachers Group has been successfully prosecuted, but they have been in trouble with the authorities elsewhere.
Where Humana or Tvind have been ‘blacklisted’
11. Witness – your stories
Personal accounts sent to Tvind Alert by volunteers, employees, business contacts, present and former members of the Teachers Group, covering 1970-2010
Links have to be restored to this page
12. Picture galleries
Gallery: TG used clothes bins
Slide show: The complex at San Juan de las Pulgas, Mexico
13. Who’s funding the Teachers Group?
Major international aid agencies such as the Bill Gates Foundation, government departments such as the US Department of Agriculture, charities and multinational companies are giving millions of dollars to the Teachers Group. Why?
Hall of shame: the TG’s corporate and charity sponsors
14. Articles exclusive to this site
15. News reports, books, articles, radio and TV
How the Teachers Group has been reported in books, magazines, newspaper articles, and on radio and television
Full index of news reports
Important articles in the Guardian (2003)
16. Is it a cult?
Links to cult watchdogs and evidence to support the widespread allegation that the Teachers Group is a cult.
17. A history of the Teachers Group
History of the TG presented as a timeline of events since 1969
Timeline
18. Teachers Group web pages
A list of the scores of web sites maintained by different branches of the Teachers Group
A list of Teachers Group web sites
19. Key documents and sources
Vital background documents and research
Leif Gunnar Lie’s journalism MA thesis on Tvind, 1994
Concerning Tvind, by Steen Thomsen, 1998 (Danish version)
Danish police prosecution evidence, 2001
20. Links
Other websites of interest
Useful web sites on Tvind Teachers Group
Alternative volunteer organisations
Where else to dump your used clothes?
Last revised 30th June 2010
