HENNING BJORNLUND
Many of these plantations were bought as commercial business investments in the 1980s on the advice of a Teachers Group member who was then the organisation’s ‘chief accountant’ Henning Bjornlund. Bjornlund has since retired from Tvind and is working as a university professor in Australia and Canada.
In an unguarded moment, Bjornlund once told an undercover reporter that the investments were nothing to do with foreign aid but ‘all about money’. Many people believe the Teachers Group used profits from its charitable and humanitarian enterprises to make these investments, an idea supported by the Danish police report of 2001.