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Who's who in Tvind
The nine charged with fraud
in Denmark go 
The seven charged with money laundering in Belgium go
Other leading TG members go
Jyllands-Posten
Founder, inspiration and alleged chief beneficiary of the Tvind empire. As
a 60s radical, Amdi founded the first alternative school (Travelling
Folk High School) in 1970 and DNS (The Necessary Seminary) in 1972.
According to friends he became increasingly concerned about his personal
safety, believing he was the target of Danish assassination squads. In
1979 he went underground. Police contend he continued to inspire and run
the Tvind organisation at arm's length and in secret, living abroad. In
2001 he was found to be living in a multi-million dollar luxury
apartment in Miami and in 2002 he was arrested on an Interpol warrant in
Los Angeles.
Charged
for fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution
on account of 25 million euros (25 million dollars) involving Tvind's
Humanitarian Fund.
Other TG members charged with
fraud in Denmark:
Kirsten Larsen
Politiken
Danish. Female. Amdi's driver, most loyal supporter, partner and
girlfriend over 30 years. According to friends, Amdi Petersen and
Kirsten Larsen worked so closely together their messages were signed
simply 'KLAP' (Kirsten Larsen Amdi Petersen). With Amdi, is alleged to
have formed the supposed 'distribution group' that assigned all Tvind
Teachers Group members to their responsibilities. With him in the United States when he
was picked up by the FBI in February 2002, and attended recent court
hearings.
Also
charged with fraud and tax
evasion by Danish prosecutor.
Poul
Joergensen
Politiken
Danish. Male. Married and has a son. Amdi's senior lieutenant and public
mouthpiece. One of the few senior Tvind members to marry and have any
kind of public profile or visibility - for many years unofficial Tvind
'spokesman'. According to one journalist 'always on planes, in offices
and meetings and in hotels'. May be legally trained. According to a
former TG member, 'good at taking care of legal matters such as real
estate transactions and starting trusts.' Believed to have been handed
day to day control of Teachers Group and DNS affairs from around 1978,
just prior to Amdi's 'disappearing act'.
Chairman of many of Tvind's
most important financial institutions, and a board member of the
Humanitarian Fund (removed by Danish authorities, 2002). Wife, Dorthe,
is considered a member of the Teachers Group and believed to be
running Tvind affairs in Poland.
Charged with fraud and
tax evasion by Danish prosecutor.
Bodil
Ross Srensen
Danish.
Female. Amdi Petersen's 'second-in-command'. One of the first members of
the Teachers Group from the early 1970s. Head of Tvind's schools branch.
Said to 'operate closely with Amdi Petersen in
ruling the entire school development in Denmark and abroad. Also described
by one TG member as being like one of Tvind's main 'political
commissars', ensuring
ideological correctness.
Charged
with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecutor.
Marlene
Gunst
Danish. Female. Another very senior 'second-in-command' supporter of Amdi
and long-time member of the Teachers Group. With Ruth Sejeroe Olsen, she
has been on the board of up to eight Tvind companies. Worked to restore
Tvind schools in Denmark in 1998 after government tried to close them.
In May 2001, along with Amdi Petersen and Sejeroe Olsen, she informed
the Danish authorities that she was 'emigrating' to Britain, where she
is now officially resident. In 2002, the Danish newspaper Fyens
Stiftstidende tracked Gunst and Sejeroe Olsen down to mailbox addresses
(539 and 557) at an accommodation address/mailbox shop at 56 Gloucester
Road, Kensington, London SW7. A sister, Bolette Gunst, is also believed
to be in the Teachers Group.
Marlene
Gunst
is charged with fraud and tax
evasion by Danish prosecution
and with money
laundering by Belgian prosecutor.
Ruth
Sejeroe Olsen
Danish. Female. Senior 'second-in-command' level member of the Teachers
Group. Accountant and leading member in the Handelskontoret (trade
office) and Tvind management group during the 1970s, charged with
overseeing the profitability of Tvind financial affairs. Known to have
been on the board of up to eight Danish-registered Tvind companies. She
is believed to have been associated with clothing plants in Casablanca,
Morocco. Possibly involved with Jersey-registered Argyll Smith
(property) and Gibraltar-registered Holland House (used clothes). She
was secretary and director, Rookbridge Commercial Ltd, from 1993 (UK -
dissolved 1997). Worked to restore Tvind schools in Denmark in 1998
after government tried to close them.
In May 2001, along with Amdi Petersen and Marlene Gunst, she informed
the Danish authorities that she was 'emigrating' to Britain, where she
is now officially resident. In 2002, the Danish newspaper Fyens
Stiftstidende tracked her and Gunst down to mailbox addresses ( 539 and
557) at an accommodation address/mailbox shop at 56 Gloucester Road,
Kensington, London SW7. Charged
with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.
Eva
Vestergaard
Danish. Female. According to Danish police she had a number of
managerial posts in Tvind's Humanitarian Fund. In the period 1993-1999
she was deputy chairman of the Fund. She also has in some periods
managed the administration of the Fund in cooperation with Amdi Petersen
and Kirsten Larsen. The management is excercised by the head of the
Teachers Group economy.
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish
prosecutor.
Kirsten
Fuglsbjerg (Christie Pipps)
Danish. Female. Lawyer, described as one of Tvind's 'international
business leaders'. One of Amdi's most trusted seconds-in-command and
long time Teachers Group member. Trained as a lawyer with an address in
Holland. A student at DRH and DNS in the 1970s, she was a co-founder of
Faelleseje in 1997. She is believed to have been a manager of CCTT, a
French-Moroccan clothing enterprise, in the 1990s. In 1992 she changed
her name from Christie Pipps to Kirsten Fuglsbjerg and officially moved
to Britain (Fuglsbjerg and Pipps mean roughly the same thing in Danish -
'little bird')
In 1994, as a Tvind lawyer, she was a main signatory when Tvind bought
the Floresta Atlantica ranch in Brazil from Shell for $9 million. The
following year she became one of the founders of Trayton Holdings Ltd, a
company registered in the tax-haven Isle of Man that controls Tvind
businesses in China. Believed to have been in charge of Argyll Smith
(Jersey, property) and, with Ruth Sejeroe Olsen.
Charged
with fraud
and breach of trust by Danish prosecutors and money laundering by
Belgian prosecutors.
Steen
Byrner
Danish. Male. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind in
the years 1987-92. Described as a 'financial director'. It is believed
he was at one time president of BB Shipping in the Cayman Islands,
associated with the One World Institute in Norway and company director
and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property
in St Lucia). In 2000 he was running a bookshop (or publisher?) in
Denmark called "forlaget HansGDal", which also uses the name
and Internet address 'One World'. Not known if he is still associated
with the Teachers Group.
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.
TG members charged with money laundering in Belgium:
Flemming
Gustaffson
Danish. Male. Described as a 'trade manager', currently resident in
Amsterdam, Holland. Currently involved with Tvind's clothes trading
company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. Among the Anglo-Dutch group of
Tvind companies he is known to have been associated with: Customlong
Agencies (a UK furniture company - shareholder) which was later
renamed Agence Notre Dame (a director); and a Dutch subsidiary
Procurement White Hall Enterprises (unspecified trading - director). He
had also been director of Textile Transformation EC Trading (used
clothes, Holland) before it went bankrupt in 2000 owing 1.4 million.
He is believed to be associated with Humana in Holland.
He is also thought to have been involved with other companies in Hong
Kong. Dutch tax-police was trying to get hold of Gustaffson in 1998-1999
because the Hungarian authorities suspected him of tax-evasion in
relation to Textile Transformation EC Trading. According to a former
employee of EC Trading Gustaffson then fled head over heels from
Boedapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) with TG-member Birgit Dinesen-Jensen
with whom he now runs the Tvind-textile company ConMore BV. ConMore BV
is trading with Humana Holland and the other Humana organisations in
Europe.
Charged
with money laundering by Belgian prosecutor.
Anne
Hansen
Danish. Female. Long-time member of Teachers Group and confidant of Amdi
Petersen. Considered to be very senior in handling Tvind finances. Like
Kirsten Fuglsbjerg (Christie Pipps), was a signatory of the Floresta
Atlantica deal in Brazil in 1994.
Charged
with money laundering by Belgian prosecutor.
Birgitte
Krohn
Danish. Female. A high ranking member of the inner circle of the Teachers
Group, extremely loyal to Amdi.. Believed to have attended DRH in 1978
and joined the Teachers Group in 1980. In the 80s and 90s Birgitte Krohn
was a kind of aide to Amdi, cooking his meals according to a special
diet. Known to have visited the Floryl (Floresta Atlantica) ranch in
Brazil during the 1990s. Charged
with money laundering by Belgian prosecutor.
Else
Jensen
Danish. Female. Described a a kind of Tvind 'political commissar' during
the 1970s. Charged
with money laundering by Belgian prosecutor.
Birgitte
Ring
Charged with money laundering by Belgian police.
Joop
Nagel
Dutch. Male. Teachers Group member from the 1970s, formerly Amdi
Petersen's bodyguard. In the late 1970s Joop Nagel, once a painter, was
sent to Belgium to buy anti-bugging equipment and anti-bomb security
devices, to protect Amdi Petersen. It is not known what companies he has
been associated with. He's also mentioned in the case summary of the
Danish police against top-members of Tvind.
Other leading people associated with Tvind:
Johan Bendtsen
Janice Bostic
Borge Dethlefsen
Allan Foighel
Inger Lise Jepson
Poul Joergensen
Ann Jonsson
Helle Lund
Eva Nielsen
Jytte
Nielsen
Mattias Wallander
U'SAgain, Chicago/Seattle. Danish. TG member for around 8 years. Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications. Supposedly 'contracted to U'SAgain' by Garson & Shaw, for $4,500 a month, according to correspondents, but in fact Operations Manager for Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and is currently in charge of Seattle. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bostic. July 2003
President, U'SAgain Janice Marie Bostic has been with the TG for approximately 22 years. Recruited as volunteer at Aka Pecha International College, Virginia, USA (now closed). Has got a degree in social work from an American school. Attended Tvind colleges in Denmark and worked in Miami. Started U'SAgain in Seattle, 1999. Now president of U'SAgain, based in Chicago covering Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Believed to have a TG husband, Michael, a 'Tvind accountant', assigned outside the USA. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bendtsen. Updated July 2003
Atlanta. Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam). Rooms with Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson. Father is a well-known Danish academic. July 2003
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain. July 2003
U'SAgain, Atlanta. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group (but not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark). Responsible for U'SAgain in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, New York and - soon - Philadelphia. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw July 2003
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia). Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain
Gaia, Chicago. Helle Lund, one of the managers of Gaia in north America, was previously company secretary and director of Humana UK - the British used-clothes charity closed down in 1997-8 by the Charity Commission.
CEO, Gaia, Chicago. With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years. Currently head of Gaia, Chicago. Aged about 55 (in April 02). A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India. Rents an apartment in downtown Chicago July 2003
Jytte
Nielsen
Danish. Female. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group, who has been
involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European
countries including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK, Austria,
Sweden and of course Denmark. In the mid-1990s her address was given as
Brussels. She now has a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next
to her live TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen
is director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys
the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Jytte Nielsen has been a
member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies. Learned about
clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Now director of Humana Holland.
She has been involved with many controversial Tvind enterprises. She was
a trustee of Humana UK in the 1980s-1990s, and one of those dismissed by
the UK Charity Commission following investigations into its financial
affairs in 1996. She has also held official positions in Humana France
(secretary and treasurer) just before it was wound up following French
government allegations of unpaid taxes. She was a member of the council
and a director of the Small School at Red House, UK (1994), prior to the
school's closure by the authorities. Nielsen is currently vice-president
of Humana Austria, a director of Humana Sweden and according to herself
also connected to Humana in Spain.
CEO, U'SAgain.
Swedish. TG member for about 12 years (already has
his 'TG watch'). Recruited from the Travelling High
School - no further formal qualifications. Joined U'SAgain approximately 2000, and currently
CEO, based in Chicago. Covers
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland.
Became US citizen in appx 2002. Shares
a rented house in Algonquin with Bendtsen and Bostic.
Updated
July 2003
Birgit
Dinesen-Jensen
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland. Dinesen is director of the
Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly
fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) together with Flemming
Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax
evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC
Trading in Amsterdam. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.
Mikala
Gottlob
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland in the same house as Birgit
Dinesen. Gottlob was connected as a chairman to Humana UK and to
Winestead Hall School in Hull, UK. Both organisations were closed
down by the British Charity Commission. Current whereabouts unknown.
Jesper
Wohlert
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'. President of Humana in
Spain and Portugal. Director of Planet Aid UK, former board member of
Humana Holland, Humana Germany. Trained at Tvind. Previously associated
with: Humana UK (director), Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All
Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), Small School at Red House (member of
council), Humana France (president and secretary) Humana Gent, Belgium
(manager). Calls himself a project leader on the website humana.org, one
of the international websites of Tvind. He disappeared out of the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers
Group member Erik-Dorph Jensen, shortly after publications in the
Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.
Erik-Dorph
Jensen
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, same adress as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland, but left shortly after several
publications about Humana in the Dutch press. Has
also been associated with Humana Spain and Humana France (closed down in
1996 after financial irregularities).
Niels
Peter Holst
Danish. Male. Said to be Tvind's 'chief accountant' in 1998. Officially resident in
Britain. Composer of the secret internal memo of Tvind concerning moving
money away gained by clothes collecting in Europe. The publication of
the memo (dated 24-9-1995) on Dutch television and in Eindhovens Dagblad
caused a Dutch Member of Parliament to call for an Europe-wide investigation
into Humana in the year 2002.
Steen
Conradsen
Danish. Male. Was
involved in several Tvind schools - Director Small School at Red House
(1994), member of Council Management Small School at Red House
(1994), Director Red House Management (1998). Also he was a board member
of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).
Conradsen, a well-known and influential TG member, described in the
media how he's seen Tvind for many years: 'In the 70s we were the
communist commune, training guerilla soldiers in the field. In the 80s
were the cult, brainwashing people and in the 90s it is the economy of
the Teachers Group that is being focused on.'
Basically Conradsen believes that society wants to eliminate Tvind. But
it is a fight against wind mills, he insists. 'Many are against us, but
also many are with us. We have a good school with a theory of education
so good that people are still supporting us. We see that when social
workers, municipalities, parents and all the other authorities still
believe, that it is a good idea to send people to a Tvind-institution.'
American, male, born 1958. Probably now resident in Borneo, but in the past has addresses listed at 1559 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 20852 Maryland, USA (1991) and 02 Voorburgwal 266, 1012 GL, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992). He is another Tvind financial manager and has been associated with the following companies (most likely others too): Secretary and Director, Greenpipe Management Ltd (1991), Secretary and director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd (1992). Director, Unicorn Trans World Trading (1995). He was a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust, Switzerland, in 1998. Most recently (2003) associated with McCorry and Co, Luyang, Malaysia - a timber trading company.
Joop Trompert
Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading. Currently with Human Holland at Bunnik. Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland.
Peter Kjaer
Appears
to be resident in Fiji. Was a teacher at DNS (The Necessary
Teacher Training College) in 1980-81. One correspondent
recalls him being sent to try to persuade her to return to Tvind after
she left DNS in the mid-1980s. "I found him waiting on the stairs
when I got home from work one day.... A fairly charming, pleasant
fellow." Was a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust in
Switzerland in 1998.
Lilian Ekbom
Also
resident in Fiji, we think. What is she doing there for
Tvind? With Peter Kjaer, was a Teacher at DNS in around
1980-81 and more recently became a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust,
giving her address as Fiji.
The following are also believed to be influential TG members
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
Soeren
Soerensen
Ole Toft Anderson In charge of a Tvind-owned banana plantation, la Hacienda Italia, Ecuador.
Sven Petersen - in South Africa
Ester Boere - Principal, KNEC, South Africa
Hans Joergen Lausten - Florida, Holland and Moscow
Politiken
Politiken
Steen
Byrner
Joop Trompert
Peter Kjaer
Lilian Ekbom
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
Politiken
Politiken
Steen
Byrner
Joop Trompert
Peter Kjaer
Lilian Ekbom
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
Politiken
Politiken
Steen
Byrner
Joop Trompert
Peter Kjaer
Lilian Ekbom
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
Steen
Byrner
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
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