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The trial of Amdi Petersen
Humana
founder Amdi Petersen and several other senior members of the Tvind Teachers Group are
charged with 25m fraud and breach of trust and are appearing in a
special computer-equipped court in this building in Aarhus, Denmark.
The trial is taking place on around 80 days at widely-spaced intervals and is scheduled to last at least until spring 2005.
Petersen
is currently on bail and living behind high walls at a fortified ranch
in Grindsted
,
central Denmark. However, police have returned his
passport and he is able to travel abroad when his presence is not
required in court.
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Humana
founder Amdi Petersen and several other senior members of the Tvind Teachers Group are
charged with 25m fraud and breach of trust and are appearing in a
special computer-equipped court in this building in Aarhus, Denmark.
The trial is taking place on around 80 days at widely-spaced intervals and is scheduled to last at least until spring 2005.
Petersen
is currently on bail and living behind high walls at a fortified ranch
in Grindsted
,
central Denmark. However, police have returned his
passport and he is able to travel abroad when his presence is not
required in court.
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
The trial is taking place on around 80 days at widely-spaced intervals and is scheduled to last at least until spring 2005.
Petersen
is currently on bail and living behind high walls at a fortified ranch
in Grindsted
,
central Denmark. However, police have returned his
passport and he is able to travel abroad when his presence is not
required in court.
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Petersen
is currently on bail and living behind high walls at a fortified ranch
in Grindsted
,
central Denmark. However, police have returned his
passport and he is able to travel abroad when his presence is not
required in court.
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Latest trial reports (most recent at top):
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
March-November 2004 The trial continues with legal arguments. Very little reported in the Danish press due to the complexity of the legal proceedings at this stage..
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
March 2004: Amdi confronts leading prosecution witness Hans la Cour.
Summary
Amdi Petersen, alleged leader of the Tvind
organisation, has confronted Hans la Cour, the main
witness in the case against him and seven other
top Teachers Group members
on charges of major fraud and embezzlement,
in the Danish court.
Petersen is accused by the Danish authorities of
misusing public money for self-enrichment
instead of for environmental research through
Tvind's Humanitarian Fund.
Petersen wanted to know why La Cour originally told to police that the millions for the Humanitarian Fund were used in a proper way. La Cour answered that he had learned. In court in Aarhus he claimed that the Humanitarian Fund was just a deceit to direct public money into the Teachers Group while at the same time evading tax.
La Cour was a long-time member of the TG and was closely connected to the Humanitarian Fund when he left the Teachers Group in the nineties. He has since written a book, Den Rejsende (The Travellers), describing his time in the TG and accusing Petersen of fraud.
According to La Cour the money never was to leave the Teachers Group. La Cour, who had come over from New Zealand, quoted Amdi Petersen who would have said that it would be an insane idea to think that the money of the Teachers Group should go to anyone, who had nothing to do with the Teachers Group.
Source: Politiken/Berlingske Tidende
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=310321
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=417472/
19th February 2004
Witness Else Jensen: The poor did not have a chance.
Summary: prosecution witness Else Jensen, who as a Teachers group member knew the inside story, told the court that Tvind's Humanitarian Fund was just to raise money, not to give it to the poor. She said the poor didn't stand a chance to get any money at all. However, she denied that Amdi Petersen was the one taking all the decisions.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=409746/
Berlingske Tidende
A German version of this article is posted at
Friedrich Griess's
Tvind newspaper archive
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
15th January 2004:
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Witness: Projects were just deception
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Berlingske Tidende
By Marianne Harbo
Summary:
Dorthe Arp, previous member of the Teachers' Group, yesterday explained
at the court how she produced plenty of applications from development
projects to Tvind's humanitarian fund, knowing that those development
projects never would see any money.
They were invited to a meeting in Grindsted where Amdi explained the
founding of the fund and about their new job to find projects which
should apply to the fund for money. But he also explained clearly that
the money only should be distributed to the TG's own projects.
In summer 1987, she participated in the so called Global Research
Program, and together with her mate Bjarne Petersen who also witnessed
yesterday they sailed from Panama.
When confronted with the people whom they knew to never receive any
money, they became frustrated after a while and left Global Research.
Dorthe Arp und her husband Bjarne Petersen confirmed the allegation of
the prosecutors that Amdi was dominant in all actions and decisions. He,
Kirsten Larsen, Ruth Sejerø Olsen and Marlene Gunst were the real
leaders of the TG, not being elected in a democratic way, but
self-appointed.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=397024/
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
8th Jan 2004 Witness claims Amdi to be the supreme boss of Tvind
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Summary:
One year after the start of the court case against 8 Tvind top managers,
finally the first witness, Anna Sophie Petersen (no relation) was
interrogated on Thursday during 5 hours by the court. Mrs.
Petersen had been a teacher in Tvind schools and a bookholder for
several Tvind enterprises. She said the contrary of that what the
defendants had claimed all the time was true: Mogens Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen were the true leaders of Tvind, though they did not
officially show up in any board nor have signed any documents. She also
said that Tvind was a hierarchical organisation, though this was not
visible as such from outside. No economical decision exceeding 100.000
Danish crowns could be made without the consent of KLAP.
Amdi, once when asked about IFAS, said that he did not
remember. Anna Sophie Petersen remembered very
well: IFAS was the idea of Amdi, and when IFAS was founded in 1987 at a
meeting at Plagborgvej in Grindsted where Amdi lived, she had been
pointed out by him as a deputy chairwife. She left Tvind in 1999 when
she understood that money from the humanitarian fund destined for Africa
went back to the Teachers Group.
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=301686
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394398/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394436/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=394622/
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
3rd December 2003: Tvind-defenders accuse prosecutor
Summary:
Prosecutor Poul Gade arranged on 26 November a closed meeting of the
court, related to the new raid of Tvind in Grindsted, where only two of
the defenders were admitted. The defenders now think that this was
against the law, because all of them were interested to be present and
they think they had the right to.
This is just a small aspect of the entire Tvind case where 8 people are
accused for tax fraud and abuse of more than 50 millions Danish Crowns
from a fund with the address at Tvind.
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=383864/
Berlingske Tidende, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2153796/
Jyllands-Posten, 3 december 2003, 15:40 hrs
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=297302
Politiken, 3 december 2003, 16:12 hrs
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
3rd December 2003: Steen Byrner examined
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Summary:
On Wednesday, Steen Byrner was examined, the brain behind Tvind's
economical dispositions. He spoke about a multiple of enterprises and
associations where he had been trustee, director etc., for example
Farmer's Trust, Thomas Brocklebank, South China Sea Farming, the
Hobhouse Trust.
Judge Steen Løvbjerg Nielsen, who otherwise followed the examination
with much attention, and his two colleagues were not able to keep up
with this complicated matter.
Steen Byrner claimed to have done all that out of his own initiative and
not to have been nominated for those positions by another individual,
but possibly by decisions of a group, but he could not remember any
details.
He admitted to be responsible for the transfer of USD 440.000 taxfree
for Amdi Petersen's luxury aparments in Miami instead of sending them to
a development project in Malysia for which the amount was dedicated.
One of Tvind's associations, Kirchheiner on Jersey, turned out to have
been a sort of Tvind's internal bank where money was shifted around.
The examination of Steen Byrner is to continue today [4. 12. 2003].
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=384048/
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
27th November 2003: New Police Raid in Tvind case
Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
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5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
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Under much secrecy, the prosecutors
had triumphed during the Tvind court case that the police in Holstebro
again have investigated the apartment of the Tvind speaker Poul Jørgensen
in Grindsted.
During the examination of Poul Jørgensen it became obvious that at the
raid in April 2001, the police had left behind some boxes with material
- among others documents - which Poul Jørgensen had with him at the
court.
"There were many boxes with papers which the police did not take
with them at that time. Maybe there was something different written on
the boxes than what was in fact inside", Poul Jørgensen said at
the court.
The prosecutors could not overhear that, and after a while, prosecutor
Poul Gade asked the judge to suspend the case until Wednesday next week,
which was accepted by the judge - at the big surprise of the eight
defendants and their defenders.
Immediately afterwards, there was a closed meeting of the court where
the prosecutors - so far Berlingske Tidende could get knowledge about -
asked for a decision of the judge to investigate the apartment of Poul Jørgensen.
What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
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What was found there, the chief of the police in Holstebro, Jens Kaagaard, did not want to tell.
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Berlingske Tidende
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=381882/
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
6th November 2003: Defeat for the prosecutor
in the Tvind case
It has no meaning for the further progress of the Tvind case, but the
prosecutor got a "rap on the knuckles" for having examined one
of Tvind's auditors in London, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice.
In the many partial decisions in the Tvind case, there was a minor
defeat for the prosecutor's authority on Thursday.
A British auditor for the Tvind compound in London has been examined by
the Danish researchers in the case, contradictory to the law of
administration of justice, the court stated.
The examination of the auditor happened this summer and long after the
formal examination in the Tvind case had been terminated.
Both parties in the Tvind case accuse each other to slow down the case
which is already much delayed, but it is assumed that the Thursday's
decision will not have importance for the further progress of the case,
even if in parts of the newspapers doubts had been raised about that
during the last days.
Lawyer Lars Kjeldsen, defender for the accused Kirsten Fuglsberg, told
Ritzau that the decision of the court states that the Backman Police
exercised unlawful research in Great Britain. There, witnesses may be
examined under threat of prison without being presented to a judge. This
could not happen in Denmark or under the leadership of Danish police
research abroad.
Tvind's speaker Poul Jørgensen is expected to be further examined in
the coming hearings in the case.
http://www.berlingske.dk/business/artikel:aid=374044/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2106242/
http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.sasp?PageID=293420
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
5th November 2003: Tvind Boss does not know anything about tax fraud
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
The most publicly known
representative for the Tvind-schools during three decades, the speaker
Poul Jørgensen, denies that the school compound has been guilty by
defrauding the Danish tax payers as part of the schools' comprehensive
activity abroad.
On the other hand, he confirmed on Wednesday the very tight economical
relations among the teachers in the school compound.
Poul Jørgensen is co-defendant in the case where the main person is the
founder of Tvind, Amdi Petersen, who for many years kept himself hidden
abroad. The case about fraud with at least 50 million Danish crowns was
continued on Wedneday in rented court rooms in Århus.
As a co-defendant in the comprehensive Tvind case, Poul Jørgensen was
brilliant in his new role as the Tvind schools undoubted speaker and
defender, and he asserted in long rhetorical and sometimes complicated
legal phrases not to be guilty in comprehensive tax fraud.
/ritzau/
http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=2104408/
http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=373696
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Previous court reports
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
Click
here for reports March - October 2003
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