update July 3rd 2003

Tvind Alert

Investigating the Tvind organisation and exchanging information in 50 countries
http://www.tvindalert.com
No 18 3rd July 2003

 

TIME MAGAZINE LOOKS AT U'SAGAIN

July 1st:   TIME magazine has this week told many Americans what they probably did not  realise - that the red and white U'SAgain clothes recycling boxes in US cities are for-profit and not for charity, and part of Tvind.

Tvind's U'SAgain clothing banks are now in nine major US cities and opening soon in  Philadelphia.   TIME notes that "the firm is run by Scandinavians associated with a secular cult whose leaders are on trial in Denmark for tax fraud and embezzlement."     U'SAgain has 1,400 boxes and collected eight million pounds (weight) of donated clothes last year.

   

    Time Magazine article
    U'SAgain
    Tvind's clothes recycling companies
    What is the link between U'SAgain and Tvind?

DUTCH CHARITY BOARD DECISION ON HUMANA HOLLAND IS 'WINDOW DRESSING'.

June 7th-8th:  The Dutch charity board CBF has told Humana Holland to stop 'selling used clothes to itself' -  or lose its charity mark.   It has given the Tvind company one year to comply.    However, there are doubts that the action demanded by the CBF will be enough to end the scandal of Tvind's financial dealings in Holland.

The Centraal Bureau Fondsenwerving now appears to accept that Humana in Holland is part of a corporate structure that may have enriched Amdi Petersen and the Teachers Group, instead of directly helping the world's poor.  As widely reported in Denmark and Sweden, clothes collected by UFF / Humana charities in Europe have been sold to Tvind companies in Holland, then to Tvind companies in British tax havens, and finally to eastern Europe - allowing Petersen and the Teachers Group to set aside millions.  Holland is an important staging post in this financial paper chase.

But the CBF decision means Teachers Group members will remain as directors, and not simply be replaced by responsible managers as happened in the UK (where Humana UK was removed from Tvind control in 1998).    Experience shows the financial system will remain.   Tvind Alert says:  "This is window dressing.   Danish directors will stay in charge.   The business methods of Humana, selling used clothes to its own companies, can quite easily be continued by Tvind.    The CBF shows no signs of holding a real inquiry into Tvind's financial affairs."

    Read more about the CBF decision
    Ten questions about Humana Holland
    The story of EC Trading
    Who's Who in Tvind, Holland
    Tvind Alert says

ALSO NEW ON TVIND ALERT

The Ecoovie cult.   Did Tvind have a secret agreement with them?     Click on 'our investigation'.

Mozambique.    Another disillusioned volunteer describes alleged corruption in ADPP Mozambique.     Click on the world map - Mozambique

Juelsminde     More on DRH Juelsminde and on recruitment in Japan.    Click on 'Tvind colleges' - full list - Juelsminde.

Belarus       Timber trading.      In response to new information received, we have opened a file on Belarus.   Click on the world map.   We have also opened a file on Challacomvbe Trading.  Click on 'companies' - full list - Challacombe.

South Africa        The Pretoria News in South Africa  has cancelled a joint promotion with Humana.    Click on front page - at the bottom.

Sweden     Disgraced and bankrupt, UFF in Sweden has risen again -  with money from 'Tvind'  (Dagens Nyheter) .      Click on 'newspapers' - 2003

Grindsted      New pictures of Amdi Petersen's fortified ranch.  Click on 'The Court Case' - Grindsted.

Angola      ADPP claims Oxfam supported a project in Angola  - Oxfam says it didn't.       Click on 'World Map' - Angola (scroll down)

HOMONYM CORNER

Humana Way

A correspondent in Texas writes:  "Has anyone heard of Alan and Gabrielle Williams as Humana Way contacts in Bedford, Texas?     Current address 3408 Cummings, Bedford, Texas 76021. These two are running some kind of [phrase removed for legal reasons] under the name Humana Way, with talk of setting up charitable organizations to help street kids and homeless people, by having them do "volunteer" work. They travel regularly back and forth between this address and England. They have solicited "investments" from people, promising to go through the  "World Bank" to increase their investments into the "billions" of dollars.  Anyone heard of this?"

We do not believe this has anything to do with Tvind.

Planet Aide

An Aids relief charity recently set up in Minneapolis, whose organisers are apparently unaware of Tvind's Planet Aid.   We do not believe there is any connection.

PETERSEN TRIAL NEWS:  Next hearings - August 5th and 6th

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