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CENTRAL AMERICA - TVIND'S HUGE BANANA PLANTATIONS IN BELIZE ARE AT RISK
AFTER THE TEACHERS GROUP DEFAULTS
ON A $2m PUBLIC LOAN.
HOW DID A TVIND FISH FARMING COMPANY RUN BY A MAN WITH A REPUTATION FOR A 'TRAIL OF BAD DEALS' GET $2m FROM PUBLIC FUNDS?
- BELIZE TV REPORTS
Belize, July 21st 2005 - Tvind's massive banana, mango and shrimp farms in Belize may have to be sold after the Teachers Group failed to pay the interest on a $2m public loan, according to Belize TV.
The move could spell the end for Tvind's highly exploitative Belize plantations, notorious even within Central America for the primitive working conditions, low wages, health hazards and lack of trade union rights endured by local employees.
Belize 5 TV station reports that seven Tvind companies in Belize have been put into receivership. The move suggests the Tvind organisation is about to lose control of one of the most profitable parts of its secret financial empire.
One Tvind company, Toledo Fish Farming Ltd, run by 'Danish businessman' Soeren Soerensen, has defaulted on the loan of public money made by the Belize Social Security Board last year, according to the TV station. Soerensen had put up other Tvind farms as collateral, including a massive 640-acre banana farm.
Toledo Fish Farming Ltd, is just one of numerous huge Tvind farming enterprises in Central America notorious for poor working conditions and bad labour relations.
Last year, Belize 5 TV asked how the shrimp farm came to be given the unexplained cheap loan, breaking normal financial regulations. It said the farm was run by Soeren Soerensen, 'a businessman from Denmark...known for his chronically bad labour relations and a trail of bad deals as long as the Southern Highway.
' How a man who most people would not loan five dollars to, could walk out...with two million in workers' money is a total mystery?'
Soerensen, known as 'The Farmer', is a senior Teachers Group member who runs the huge commercial mango and banana plantations for Tvind. The secret money-making estates are an 'unpublicised' part of Tvind, notorious for using virtual 'slave labour', with low pay, no health insurance and no trade union rights - just the opposite of the enlightened development Tvind claims to promote in its publicly-known 'charities'.
Read the 2004 Belize 5 TV coverage here and the latest 2005 Belize TV coverage here.
THE INTERNET - THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
SIMON LICHTENBERG, 'CROWN PRINCE' OF TVIND, AGAIN TRIES TO CLOSE DOWN THIS SITE FOR REVEALING UNCOMFORTABLE FACTS
The Danish businessman Simon Lichtenberg, whose Trayton Group companies in China are closely connected to Tvind, is again attempting to suppress this site - the international Tvind Alert web site.
Lichtenberg - the supposed 'Crown Prince' of Tvind - is said to be so fed up with reading information about himself, his companies and the Tvind Teachers Group on the Internet, that he has instructed lawyers to sue the Internet host company TDC to have the site removed.
TVIND ALERT IS FIGHTING BACK! Tvind Alert is an investigative web site, started in Britain and run by journalists and concerned individuals, and the principal English-language source of information on Tvind for the world outside Denmark. The site is now legally owned by a well-known Danish journalist who will robustly challenge the legal action.
In the past, Lichtenberg has tried to demand that every reference to himself and his offshore-registered companies, the Trayton Group, is deleted from Tvind Alert. It would not be possible to do this without suppressing facts and rewriting histroy. Much of the information about Lichtenberg and Trayton has already been published in Danish newspapers, and has simply been repeated in English.
In an interview published by Jyllands-Posten, for example, Lichtenberg recently admitted he was a member of the Tvind Teachers Group and that his companies financially supported Tvind. Now Lichtenberg is trying to suppress that information and prevent the facts being quite legally circulated on the Internet.
IF YOU SUPPORT TVIND ALERT'S RIGHT TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT TVIND - PLEASE SIGN THE GUESTBOOK.
We also welcome financial contributions so that we can continue to stay live on the Internet.
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Our file on a Tvind timber trading company based in Borneo, with
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Has Tvind closed down its offshore-owned clothes factory in Morocco? An insider from Casablanca tells all
Google search engine blanks out this site at the request of Tvind's Chinese boss, Simon Lichtenberg of Trayton Holdings
1/6/2005 McCorry & Co: a letter from a very angry American
News from Amdi Petersen fraud trial: Amdi says 10 witnesses were wrong >>>>>
China's Tvind boss Simon Lichtenberg of Trayton Holdings censors Tvind Alert on Google >>>>>
Volunteer Story from 2000-2001 From Registration to an early departure in Africa >>>>>
About Tvind company [McCorry] >>>>>
The Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2744402 >>>>>
The Annual Conference of International Cultic Studies Association (formerly AFF) >>>>>
Another bad experience >>>>>
The World (a co-production of the BBC World Service and Public Radio International, broadcast throughout the United States) radio item on used clothes in Malawi >>>>>
Boxed In? The Pitch, Kansas City, USA, 12th May 2005 >>>>>
I was a member of the teachers group for two years and worked at The Small School at Winestead Hall >>>>>
The Tvind dossier
Welcome to international Tvind Alert. This is an online investigation into the international youth movement and recycling concern Humana People-to-People, together with associated charities, colleges, volunteering organisations, aid projects and business ventures.
All these 'good causes' under many different names are known to be part of a wealthy global organisation and alleged cult known as Tvind. The same 'charitable' movement also owns a huge hidden empire of companies, factories, exploitative plantations and real estate, with millions of pounds locked in offshore bank accounts.
How do we know this? Because of the work of Danish police, the British Charity Commission, a tireless TV documentary maker, professional investigators, journalists from around the world, ex-supporters and ex-volunteers, as well as hundreds of readers of this site who have come forward with information.
On this site you will read how Tvind's Danish founder Amdi Petersen, 67, once a darling of the left, is today accused of embezzling millions of pounds meant for humanitarian and environmental charities, allegedly diverting it for his own purposes.
Amdi Petersen - hero or fraudster?
Among other things he is held to have arranged the purchase of a luxury penthouse apartment in Miami, a multi-million pound yacht, and a retirement paradise in tropical Fiji, all solely for the use of himself and his closest companions, using money donated by supporters and public funds given in good faith. He and seven others are currently on trial in Europe on charges of $25m fraud, false accounting and tax evasion.
But there is far more - it is not just Petersen, but the whole organisation that is today under the spotlight. You will read how for 30 years Tvind's hand-picked 'Teachers' have been accused of using bullying, Maoist-style indoctrination and 'mind control' to enforce their own agenda and 'political outlook' on hapless young volunteers, to extract loyalty, money, and work.
You will read the personal stories and complaints of young men and women exposed to this technique, and feel the anger of hundreds of volunteers and ex-Teachers who have felt short-changed, trapped or exploited by this extraordinary, self-righteous but allegedly self-interested worldwide organisation.
And not least, you will read accusations of continuing financial irregularities, shoddy business practices, and a hidden commercial agenda involving offshore tax havens and shell companies, together with the comments of a remarkable number of angry and disillusioned business partners.
Tvind charities and companies worldwide are known by scores of different names, including Planet Aid, Gaia, U'SAgain, Green World, DAPP, UFF, IICD, CICD, McCorry....listed here.
We need your help to complete the story.
Now read on....
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