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Taiga Timber Trading
Siberia

 Taiga Timber Industries  

Humana-Tvind has acquired another huge piece of agricultural land and opened a new commercial front - a logging operation in Siberia.

Taiga Timber Industries, a Tvind company, is cutting and exporting timber in the Taiga forest, 300 kilometres north of Krasnoyarsk and 5,000 kilometres east of St Petersburg, in the heart of Siberia. The timber can be exported to Europe, China and elsewhere.

The 101,000 hectare plantation at Pit Gorodok in the Severo Yeniseisk region of Russia is bigger than the notorious 93,000 hectare Floryl estate Humana-Tvind owns in Brazil, the property at the heart of the continuing Teachers Group fraud trial.

One of the Tvind leaders behind the enterprise is Flemming Gustafsson, a long-time Teachers Group member who has been of considerable interest to Danish, Dutch, Belgian and Hungarian police after running Tvind old-clothes companies in Europe. Gustaffson recently fled from Europe after being wanted by Hungarian police over the collapse of a Dutch Tvind company, EC Trading.

He was also one of seven Teachers Group leaders accused of money laundering by Belgian authorities in 2002. That trial collapsed before any evidence could be heard.

Another of the businessmen believed to be behind the commercial company is Kim Bonde Anderson, also a senior Teachers Group member for many years.

The Taiga Industries web site says the company is Russian-owned, although Gustafsson describes it elsewhere on the Internet as 'European managed'. The web site makes no mention of Tvind, but includes a prominent link to Humana People-to-People.

Taiga Industries: www.tti.ru

 Who is Flemming Gustafsson? 

Flemming Gustafsson, aged 63 (in 2006) is a Tvind graduate, member of the Teachers Group for more than 30 years and a close associate of Tvind leader Amdi Petersen.

He has been running Tvind forestry companies in Siberia since around 2003, after coming to the attention of the authorities in Europe over the collapse of the Dutch Tvind used-clothes company EC Trading in 2000.

According to the Danish newspaper Berlingske on Sunday, in August 2002, EC Trading was part of a Europe-wide used-clothes scam. We will be publishing a summary of the EC Trading story shortly.

Berlingske on Sunday, 24th August 2002