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Danish. Male. Described as a 'financial director'. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind and a key member of the Teachers Group Economy, the central financial directorate of Tvind controlled by Amdi Petersen and Kirsetn Larsen, in 1987-92.
Byrner was running a bookshop and small publishers in Denmark, forlaget HansGDal, when he was charged by Danish police with fraud in 2002. The charges related to Byrner's involvement with Teachers Group funds and trusts ten years earlier. Among other posts, he had been chairman of La Societe Verte, the Paris-based 'environmental charity' that Danish police say was a front for money laundering before 1992.
Police say he was also one of the people 'behind' B&B Shipping in the Cayman Islands, a company that owned and rented out The Return to Marco Polo vessel to Tvind's 'One World Television Channel' - another alleged fraud. Byrner was a contact person for All Europe Satellite Television in the UK. He was a director of 'property company' and 'consultants' John F Parson Inc (USA), around 1988, company director and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property in St Lucia), and associated with the One World Institute in Norway.
Byrner admitted several minor frauds in the 2002-6 Teachers Group fraud trial, and received a suspended sentence. He faces further charges under the renewed legal action proposed by the danish public prosecutor, and is currently believed to be in hiding with Petersen in Mexico.
Danish. Female. Described as one of Tvind's 'international business leaders' and a financial wizardress, Fuglsbjerg is a trained lawyer. She has been the co-signatory of several key Tvind offshore companies and trusts. Born Christie Pipps, she changed her name to Kirsten Fuglsbjerg in 1992 for unknown reasons (Fuglsbjerg and Pipps mean roughly the same thing in Danish - 'little bird').
Like most Teachers of her age, Fuglsbjerg was a student at DRH and DNS during the 1970s, and was a co-founder of Faelleseje in 1977. During the 1990s, she became one of the Teachers Group's most enterprising financial managers. She was responsible for the French-Moroccan clothing company CCTT based in Casablanca. In 1994, she was a main signatory in the Teachers Group's $9m purchase of Fazenda Jatoba ranch in Brazil. The following year she was a founding signatory of Trayton Holdings, a company registered in the tax-haven Isle of Man that controls several businesses in China. She is also believed to have links with Argyll Smith, Tvind's Jersey-registered property company. One of eight accused of money laundering, Belgium, 2002.
Danish. Female. A senior member of 'The Tvind Economy' who worked with Petersen and Larsen to deploy Tvind's enormous financial resources, and a board member of many Teachers Group companies. According to Danish police, she was one of a handful of people (the others were Ruth Sejeroe Olsen, Petersen and Larsen) who played a key part in the payment for the Fazenda Jatoba ranch in Brazil. She has also worked to maintain the Tvind schools in Denmark.
In May 2001, Marlene Gunst fled from Denmark to Britain, informing the Danish authorities that she had 'emigrated', along with Amdi Petersen and Ruth Sejeroe Olsen. Gunst and Sejeroe Olsen lived for some time incognito in London, using an accomodation address at 56 Gloucester Road, Kensington. A sister, Bolette Gunst, is also believed to be in the Teachers Group. Gunst is one of the eight Tvind leaders charged with fraud in 2002, and is currently believed to be in hiding with Petersen in Mexico.
Danish. Male. Widely regarded as Amdi's senior lieutenant, handed day-to-day control of Teachers Group and school affairs just prior to Petersen's disappearance in 1979. Jørgensen is a trained lawyer, who must be credited with some of the cleverest legal formulations used by Tvind to stay within Danish law over the years. According to one journalist he was 'always on planes, in offices, at meetings and in hotels' and a former TG member describes him as 'good at taking care of legal matters such as real estate transactions and starting trusts.'
Jørgensen had a relatively high public profile and was for years the only spokesman in Denmark for the otherwise secretive Tvind organisation. He is also unusual in that he is one of the relatively few senior Teachers Group members to marry - although of course to another TG member: his wife, Dorthe, was recently understood to be running Teachers Group affairs in Poland.
He was chairman of two of Tvind's key financial trusts - the Humanitarian Fund and the Faelleseje Foundation - until removed by Danish authorities in 2002. According to Danish police, he held a 'decisive influence' in the Humanitarian Fund, which was the subject of the Danish fraud prosecution. He was one of eight Tvind leaders charged with fraud in 2002, and went in to hiding in Denmark after it was announced that the public prosecutor would appeal against 'not guilty' verdicts. He was recently found by police in Denmark. This is Poul Jørgensen (1) because there is a second Poul Jørgensen [referred to as Poul Jørgensen (2) ] resident in the United States.
Danish. Female. Amdi's chief girlfriend, driver and most loyal supporter over 30 years. She is widely held to have worked hand in hand with Amdi Petersen at the very top of the Tvind organisation to develop its many business enterprises during Amdi's 22-year 'disappearance'. According to ex-Teachers, she and Amdi worked so closely together their instructions to more junior teachers during this period were signed simply 'KLAP' (Kirsten Larsen Amdi Petersen).
Like Petersen, she has assumed key positions in Tvind including membership of the so-called 'Distribution Group' that assigns all Tvind Teachers their posts and responsibilities. Whereas Petersen never signed anything or became a publicly acknowledged director, shareholder or trustee of a Tvind enterprise after 1979, Larsen is directly involved with many offshore accounts and trusts. Among others, she has been chair of the Hobhouse Trust and manager of Kirchheiner Bros, key Teachers Group accounts. She played a part in the creation of All Europe Satellite TV in 1986, which Danish police claim was a front for money laundering, and is the owner of Furtherland Farming, a Cayman islands company that received loans during the purchase of Fazenda Jatoba ranch, Brazil.
Larsen was one of eight Tvind leaders charged with fraud in 2002, and currently wanted by Danish police. She is believed to be with Petersen in Mexico.
SOME OTHER PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE TG AND ASSOCIATES
SIX CHARGED WITH FRAUD
b. 1939. Founder and leader of the Tvind movement since the late 1960s. With others, he founded the Travelling Folk High School in 1970 and The Necessary Teacher Training College in 1972. Between 1970 and 1979 he oversaw Tvind's expansion into a schools movement, volunteer organisation, clothes collection enterprise and international landholder. In 1979 he went 'underground' and remained 'missing' for 22 years. During this time, living secretly in Denmark and abroad, he planned Tvind's expansion as a business empire and oversaw the acquisition of huge property holdings in the Caribbean, Central America, Africa and the United States. In 2001 he was revealed to be living in a $7m luxury apartment in Miami. In 2002 he was arrested on an Interpol warrant in Los Angeles and extradited to face trial on fraud charges in Denmark. After a three year trial, a Danish lower court returned a 'not guilty' verdict in August 2006, but the Danish public prosecutor announced an appeal. Petersen has since fled Denmark and is believed to be living in Mexico.
Petersen is charismatic, ambitious, persuasive and driven. He is generally accepted to be the inspiration of the Tvind movement. He is considered a guru by some and a bully by others. Within the Tvind heirarchy, as well as appointing himself leader, he has also made sure he holds the key positions of controller of the Distribution Group (which holds the power of deciding where and how Teachers work) and leading the TG Economy (which control's the purse strings of the multi-million dollar Tvind empire). More information.
Danish. Co-founder and president of Planet Aid. Former principal of Tvind's IICD Massacusetts college
Some leading past and present Teachers Group members and supporters. Those considered to be (or to have been in the past) senior members of the economic directorate the 'Tvind economy' are underlined
Helle Aaboe
Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, c1988. One of the people who gave the nod to funding All Europe Satellite Television Ltd in 1988
Danish. Formerly member of general assembly of Humana France. Named as sales contact for Humana Portugal in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Hans la Cour Andersen
Now left Tvind. Prosecution witness.
Danish, male. now boss of Taiga Timber Industries and Taiga Timber Trading, part of Trans World Forest Enterprise, a logging company in Siberia.
Key member of TG Economy. Formerly associated with the alleged Malaysian sawmill scam as signatory of an application to La Societe Verte for funding of 'environmental research project', 1990. Police allege he took direct orders from Amdi Petersen in connection with sawmill companies, even though not a director.
Also a director of Tropical Farming, Cayman Islands (1992) the company that opened negotiations to buy Floryl ranch from Shell in 1992.
Last known in charge of a Tvind-owned banana plantation, la Hacienda Italia, Ecuador.
Mona Axelsson
Associated with UFF Sweden, around 2001. Thought by Dagens Nyheter unlikely to be Teachers Group.
Before 2001, a director, Stichting Humana Fondsenwerving (Netherlands).
Danish, female. Born 1951. Principal, College for International Cooperation and Development, UK, since around 1998. Also a director and company secretary. She graduated from the very first year at the DNS Teachers Group teacher training college in Denmark, 'DNS-1', in the very early days of Tvind, about 1971 (same class as Steen Thomsen and Britta Junge). Worked for several years at the Mini Zoo in Christianshede in Jutland and other Teacers Group enterprises before moving to the UK. Well liked, capable and solid, described as 'hard working, honest and a very nice person who did no harm to other people'. A solid stayer dedicated to the Teachers Group.
Johan Bendtsen
[pic] 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. (Information correct at July 2003)
Puk Billeskov
Puk Billeskov, has been working for Humana since 1977 (when she was 10 years old).
Tove Birkøe
One of the founders of the Humanitarian Foundation. Manager of Floresta Atlantica Ltda, which bought Floryl ranch from Shell before 1992.
Lone Bjerre
One of four founders of IFAS, 1987.
Jesper Bjerregaard
Headmaster at the Teachers Training College in Angola
Under construction
Henning Bjørnlund (alias 'Henry Henning')
Adelaide, Australia. Danish. Alleged 'financial mastermind' of The Tvind Teachers Group, 1972-1990, when he suddenly left the organisation. Bjornlund is said to have been the chief architect of Tvind's rapid expansion from school movement into a mega-bucks property empire, by organising the use of more than £7 million to buy up thousands of acres of agricultural land in the Caribbean.
Bjornund was a 1972 graduate of Tvind. A close associate of Amdi Petersen, he rose to become his top financial adviser and a director of the so-called 'TG Economy' that deployed the Teachers Group's unexpected wealth, largely from donations and public funds. In 1995, he is said to have admitted to an undercover reporter from the Danish tablois Ekstra Bladet that buying the Caribbean plantations was his idea and that it was 'all about profit'.
Bjornlund married fellow Tvind graduate Vibeke in the Cayman Islands in 1986 and both have been directors of several Teachers Group offshore companies: Danish police say Bjornlund was (with Sten Byrner) 'one of the two people behind' the Cayman company B&B Shipping, which was later used to launder money for the Fazenda Jatoba purchase. He is also known to have been a director of Distributors International (c1989), Talata (Guernsey) and Tropical Farming (Caymans). Danish police say they 'would like to talk to him' next time he returns to Denmark.
Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in around 1989, reportedly with a large 'golden handshake' and resettled in Australia where he is now a research fellow at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, where his academic CV unaccountably fails to mention his 15 byears with Tvind. Bjornlund's presence at the University has upset some other academics, who have asked the vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, to take the matter up, so far without success. Bjornlund also holds a post withuniversity in Alberta, Canada.
Klavs Bloch
Danish, has been captain on many of the Tvind ships. Now headmaster of Nyborg Søfartsskole (Tvinds maritime school in Nyborg). (2007)
Ole Block
Ester Boere
Former Principal, KNEC, South Africa (2002). Now thought to be in Zimbabwe.
Karina Bolin / Ulla Carina Bolin
Swedish. Chairman of Humana in Italy until 2002. In March 2002, she was called back to Sweden to become chairman of UFF Sweden in succession to Trond Narvestad and Thomas Gregersen, according to Dagens Nyheter, following the newspaper's exposure of UFF Sweden's business methods. "Yes, I am a member of the Teachers Group. I joined it in the early 80's."
Was a director of Humana France in 1994-6. Named as sales contact for Humana France in Lyon in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Now (2008) head of product development at Tvind company in China, Trayton Furniture. But previously a key person in the complex group of Anglo-Dutch clothes companies run by Flemming Gustafsson. He was principal (sole) shareholder of the Dutch used clothes distribution company ConMore BV and also a director of short-lived clothes company Seabridge Internationa. In 2002, was registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Inger Lise Jepson.
Janice Marie Bostic
[pic] 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 200
Jocelyn Boudry
In charge, Humana Belgium (2004)
Julia Breidenstein
For many years leader of Humana People to People in Germany
Kit Bruun
This is Kit Bruun, right now working at The Nakkebølle School Center and for UFF on Fyn. Member of TG for around 25 years.
Danish. Male. Now (2007) formally leader of "Opholdsstedet Casablanca" in the Tvind school centre. One of the really hardcore TG-members, at least 25 years in TG and a board member of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).
Previously was involved in several other Tvind schools - a director of the Small School at Red House (1994), member of Council Management Small School at Red House (1994), Director Red House Management (1998).
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.'
Sales manager, Casa Creation SARL (before 2007).
Member of the board of UFF in Sweden, 2001. Said not to be a member of the Teachers Group by Dagens Nyheter. But 'has three children who are members'. In 2002, a director, Stichting Humana (Netherlands). Has also been a manager of Humana in Germany
Ingolf Ingemann Damm
Christiane Danckert
Maria Darsbo
[pic] Zimbabwe. "Chairperson of the Federation for Associations connected to the International HUMANA People to People Movement" (appx 2003)
Director, Gaia, USA
Mike Day
IICD MA, 2003. In 20033 Mike Day wrote: "Mike Day, 38, is a graduate of Manchester and Lancaster universities in the UK (in mathematics and operational research). He spent five years as an operational research scientist with the British railway. He also graduated from DNS in Denmark in 2000. He has worked as a volunteer at Bustrup Efterskole (1993-5) , where he had a great time. Also at DIE Helsingor (1998-1999) and the teacher training college in Caxito, Angola from 1999-2001 (as a teacher and vice-principal). Since September 2001 he has been at IICD Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Teacher's Group since 1997. If you have doubts or questions about IICD Massachusetts, the Teacher's Group or anything else associated with "Tvind" , feel free to contact Mike on mikeday68@hotmail.com., and you will get an honest and unbiased opinion."
Borge Dethlefsen
According to last info, in Atlanta. Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.
Danish. Female. Dinesen is a director of the Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenya) together with Flemming Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000. According to reports Dinesen drives an expensive recent BMW5 station wagon. Resident at Maarn, Holland, at the same address as Mikala Gottlob and next door to Jytte Nielsen. See The Weird World of Humana Holland by Han Gommeren (Information from appx 2002)
Recently listed as working at Garson & Shaw Inc, Atlanta
Danish. Male. Now (2007) one of the two bosses of UFF clothes collection in Denmark. He lives at Tvinds Nakkebølle School Centre on Fyn. Also previously based in Barcelona, same address as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland - In 2002, a director, Stichting Humana (Netherlands) - 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).
Was a representative for Humana France in 1992, and named as sales contact for Humana France in Paris in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Wendy Dunnett-Dagg
[pic] Hope, Zambia
Piotr Durjasr
Polish. Promotions manager, CCTG, California (2002)
Formerly in charge of Humana Belgium, now no longer functioning. Also formerly bank account holder for Humana France.
Bob Dzere
A director of Planet Aid, Inc and also program director at IICD Michigan (2006)
[pic] Taveuni, Fiji, with fellow TG member Peter Kjaer. With Peter Kjaer, was a Teacher at DNS in around 1980-81. Both are signatories of the Swiss-based Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action (2007).
Named as sales contact for Humana Netherlands in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Ulla Brit Envall
[pic] Last placed in ADPP Clothes and Shoes Sales, Mozambique. Swedish. In Tvind system since early 80s. Travelling Folk High School, Teacher, project leader Zambia, Mozambique 1994.
Female. Danish. Born 1959. A director of the College for International Cooperation and Development, UK (2007). No further information.
Erik Eriksen
Erik Eriksen, right now leader of the institution for "replaced" children "Opholdsstedet Korning" in Jutland - member of the TG for at least 25 y.
Lene Eriksen / Lena Margaretha Eriksson
Vice president of Humana Austria, 2004
Christian Fenger
Director for GAIA-Movement.
Stina Fernström
Swedish, female. "Stina Fernström has been so far in the Teachers Group that you can come. She got the number 33." Amdi Petersen's book-keeper for nine years. (Dagens Nyheter, Sweden.) She has now left the Teachers Group.
Became member of the Teachers Group in the beginning of the 70's
Grete Flintegaard
One of the very first Teachers who travelled round the world with Amdi Petersen before the founding of the Travelling Folk High School. Regarded as one of the harem of 'Amdi's women'. Now believed by police to live at Plagborgvej 13, the luxurious Teachers Group estate in Grindsted, Denmark - although for some reason this address was not recognised by the Danish authorities for delivery of court papers to Amdi Petersen.
Danish. CEO of Garson and Shaw, commercial clothes trading company, Atlanta, USA.
Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam). In 2003 he was reported rooming with Poul Joergensen (2) of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Inger Lise Jepson and Ann Jonsson.
His father, Isi Foighel, was a well known Danish academic and former Minister of Taxation in the Conservative Schlüter Government.
Eduardus Willem Mattheus Fonck
In charge at Humana Italy, around 2000.
Ruth Ford
New Zealander. Formerly in a senior position at CCTG, Etna, California - now possibly in New Zealand
Lars Fribert
One of four founders of IFAS, 1987
Kirsten Fuglsbjerg / 'Christie Pipps'
Like most Teachers of her age, Fuglsbjerg was a student at DRH and DNS during the 1970s, and was a co-founder of Faelleseje in 1977. During the 1990s, she became one of the Teachers Group's most enterprising financial managers. She was responsible for the French-Moroccan clothing company CCTT based in Casablanca. In 1994, she was a main signatory in the Teachers Group's $9m purchase of Fazenda Jatoba ranch in Brazil. The following year she was a founding signatory of Trayton Holdings, a company registered in the tax-haven Isle of Man that controls several businesses in China. She is also believed to have links with Argyll Smith, Tvind's Jersey-registered property company.
Fugslbjerg was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-2004.
Danish. Aged 59 in 2006. Residence: not certain. In 2006 appointed a non-executive director of the Trayton Group in China.
One of the original founders of the Teachers Group in 1971, a graduate of the Necessary Teacher Training College in about 1972 and a Tvind Teacher and 'school adviser' ever since. She was a founder of Faejeselle in 1977. Later a company director in England and Holland. From 1990 to 1999 she was based in England as a director and company secretary of Humana UK, the charity closed down by the UK Charity Commission. In the same period she was on the management board of Tvind's Red House School, also closed down. Following the closure of Tvind's British schools, she became director of the CICD (College for International Cooperation and Development) which replaced Winestead Hall School in Patrington near Hull. From around 2001, she was associated with Humana clothes recycling in Holland, resident near Maarn, where she lived in the same house as Birgit Dinesen.
Thomas Gregersen
Chairman of UFF, Sweden, in 2001.
Annicken Groenvold
Norwegian, long-standing TG member. Recently active in old clothes trading in Europe, Russia and probably the USA. A correspondent writes: "The 'Anneken' mentioned in the Tvind Alert information about Great Lakes [probable Tvind company in the USA] could be Annicken Groenvald, Norwegian and member of TG. She oversaw the complete startup of the business in Russia. Some branches are active still today in Garson and Shaw since EC Trading went bust."
Bolette Gunst
Board member, Humanitarian Foundation, c 1987-93. Closely associated, probably as company director, with TG Pacifico, new Teachers Group headquarters building in San Juan de las Pulgas, Mexico.
Gunst was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-4
Danish. Male. Believed to be currently in Zimbabwe with reponsibility for eucalyptus plantations, following the collapse of a timber trading company in Siberia. In early 2008, Gustafsson and fellow TG member Birgit Dinesen-Jensen were reportedly on the run from the Russian security service FSB, following allegations of a massive timber fraud. Until recently (2007), they been joint bosses of the Siberian companies Taiga Timber Industries and Taiga Timber Trading. See our dossier on Taiga Timber Trading.
For many years Gustafsson was a key director of EC Trading, an Amsterdam clothes trading company at the centre of a grubby constellation of companies in the UK and Holland that were siphoning off money for the Teachers Group through a sophisticated financial scam. Other companies were Customlong Agencies (registered as a UK furniture company - shareholder), later renamed Agence Notre Dame (a director); and a Dutch subsidiary Procurement White Hall Enterprises (unspecified trading - director).
In 1988-9, tax authorities in the Netherlands pursued Gustaffson after a complaint from Hungarian authorities, who suspected him of tax-evasion in relation to EC Trading. According to a former employee, Gustaffson fled from Budapest to Nairobi in east Africa with fellow TG-member Birgit Dinesen-Jensen to escape the attentions of the authorities. Then in May 2000, EC Trading went spectatcularly bankrupt, owing 5 million guilder (about £1.4m). Read our dossier on the bankruptcy of EC Trading.
Subsequently, Gustafsson became a director of ConMore BV, the Dutch clothes company that replaced EC Trading (now no longer trading). In 2002-4, Gustafsson was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in Belgium. The prosecution failed for 'lack of evidence' . He is also thought to have been involved with unknown companies in Hong Kong.
Danish. Female. Long-time member of Teachers Group and confidant of Amdi Petersen. Considered to be very senior in handling Tvind finances. Police consider she was a member of 'TG Economy', the group that ran Tvind's financial affairs to 2001.
Was a member of executive committee, La Societe Verte, 1992 (cited in Danish police report). Other key positions in Tvind included: trustee, Hobbhouse Trust (1995), trustee, the Farmers Trust (1995). Manager of Kirchheiner Bros (1991). Like Kirsten Fuglsbjerg (Christie Pipps), was a signatory of the Floresta Atlantica deal in Brazil in 1994.
In 2007, listed as a director of Mt Lezard Estate, the UK company.
Hansen was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-4
Bernt Hansen / Bente Hansen
Headmaster of the School centre in Bogense (2008)
Previously named as a sales contact for UFF Sweden in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Named as sales contact for UFF Denmark in Aarhus in documentation concerning the scandalous bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Associated with the Teachers Group's UK operations. A director of the UK company, Resources Recycling, c 1986. A director, Small School at Red House Ltd (c 1994), and a Member of Council of Management, Small School at Red House Ltd, 1994. Subsequently became a Member of Council at the College for International Cooperation and Development (CICD).
Kim Hansen
China, Shanghai, associated with Trayton.
A director of Mt Lezard Estate, UK - address given as Monkey River Estate, Belize (2007)
Walter Juul Hansen
Accompanied Amdi Petersen on world trip, 1968-9. Left Teachers Group many years ago.
Claudia Haslinger
Humana Austria, named mentioned as sales contact in documentation concerning Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt 2000.
Marja Hedlund
[pic] Last placed with Mozambique clothes sales, Beira. Swedish. In Tvind since 1975, on early Travelling High School journey to India. Teacher, Travelling High School, Sweden (now closed). UFF Sweden, 1980-87, UFF Finland 1987-1991, Beira 1996.
Henry Henning
Alias for Henning Bjornlund
Vibeke Henning
Stina Herberg
Stina Herberg, long time TG, now head teacher of the recently reopened Richmond Vale Academy, St. Vincent. Formerly recruiting in Britain and Denmark
Running part of the clothing business side in the Baltics - recently (2008) located as business manager for export in Humana People-to-People Baltic in Lithuania. Previously (2000) working for UFF in Stockholm. Address given as Kirtimu str.47, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Named as sales contact for UFF Sweden in Stockholm in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Ecuador. Teachers Group plantation manager - formerly, the manager of the Rio Culebra plantation, when there were strikes there in 2001, now manager of the La Italia plantation since 2002.
Anna Hoas
Norwegian, female. Long time member of TG, and a central figure in the school centre in Tvind, where she is leader of the Dagskolen på Tvind - one of the schools in the Tvind school centre near Ulfborg. Webmaster of several of the Tvind-sites.
Danish, male. Born 1949. Hofdahl is the Teachers Group farmer in charge of the Teachers Group plantations on St. Lucia. A director of the UK registered company Mt Lezard Estate Ltd since around 1993. He was also listed as a director of Planet Aid Inc in the USA in 1999.
Sten Hojstrom
One of four founders of IFAS, 1987. Left the Teachers Group many years ago.
Danish. Roskilde, Denmark (but also possibly in UK). Said to be a Tvind financial controller and 'accountant-in-chief'. Residence: not certain but registered in UK. An officer of the Swiss 'societe anonyme' Humana and PlanetAid Finance SA established in 2005. In 2006 appointed a non-executive director of the Trayton Group in China.
His special responsibilities in the 1990s appear to have included creating hidden financial pathways between Africa and Denmark. A private memo he wrote to Poul Joergensen in September 1995, leaked to the Danish and Dutch press, appears to suggest ways of secretly moving money between Humana Holland and Angola to avoid financial scrutiny and tax. He was also the individual named by Britta Junge in a television programme as the person who received large amounts of cash she was instructed to smuggle back by air from Angola to Holland during the 1990s.
He was a founding trustee in 1995 of Trayton Holdings, the tax haven-registered holding company of the Trayton Group. By 1998 he was described as Tvind's 'chief accountant'.
Garson & Shaw Inc, Atlanta
Inger and Gunnar Hovde
Danish. Married couple. Understood to be trained psychologists. Moved to USA in around 2005-6 and started Gaia in California. Later obliged to leave USA because of visa problems, transferred to England, now (2008) working for Tvind in Mozambique as teachers at the Tvind 'university' there.
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).
Another Tvind financial manager and has been associated with many companies. Mentioned in the case summary of the Danish police against top-members of Tvind. A director of South China Sea Farming SB, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB (Malaysia) and implicated in Malaysian sawmill scam.
Also Secretary and director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd (1992), one of the companies cited in the Danish police report, alleged to have been set up to cream off money through the One World TV Channel.
Also Secretary and Director, Greenpipe Management Ltd (1991), 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.
Christian Jacobsen
Board member, IFAS, from 1993
Øystein Kvarv Jacobsen
Teachers Group 1991-2003, but now left. Oystein sent the following message to Tvind Alert:
Hi there,
Honestly what kind of web site is this? I was a member of the Teachers Group from 1991 - 2003. These were the best years of my life. Then I saw my name under "Who's who in Tvind?" on this site. I didn't know that I had such an influence. Fair enough, I don't mind but you could at least get the name right. It's Øystein Kvarv Jacobsen or in english Oeystein Kvarv Jacobsen.
I would like to be very open about my time in TG, so anyone that have questions about anything, please send me a line or two. I used to work at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, IICD in Massachusetts from 2001-2003. Before that I worked in Denmark as a teacher and a headmaster/director for one of the schools there. I'm very concerned with misinformation in the media as I feel is getting more and more common, and sometimes the norm.
I had a very positive period in TG and I look back on great times of amazing results. Therefore I'd like to share these good experiences with everyone who is interested. This web-site is not known by being objective and fair, but honestly, I have nothing to loose. I just flipped through your pages and was depressed looking at all those with a negative experience, like Steen Thomson and other like-minded like him. All respect to the man, but honestly, if you are a part of something like the TG for twenty something years and then regret it afterwards like he does, I have problems understanding his way of thinking. Anyway, that was a side-track.
Feel free write to me at: hugoflove@yahoo.com
All the best to you guys...and remember; - be humble
:-) Jacob
Director, Green World Recycling, address, Winestead, East Yorkshire. (2007)
With commercial Teachers Group clothes trading company Garson & Shaw Inc, in Atlanta, USA
Was secretary of Humana France, 1995
Danish. Female. Long-time member of Teachers Group and confidant of Amdi Petersen. Considered to be very senior in handling Tvind finances. Described as a kind of Tvind 'political commissar' during the 1970s.
Key positions in Tvind included: trustee, Hobbhouse Trust (1995), trustee, Farmers Trust (1995). Manager of Kirchheiner Bros (1991). Employed as 'research manager' in IFAS.
Director, Bahia Farming Ltd - Jersey registered company that owns Brazilian companies running Fazenda Jatoba
Jensen was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-4
Elly Jensen
Jane Broen Jensen
Zambia, responsible for finding funding partners (Partnership in Development). Danish, b 1963. Solidarity worker, Mozambique, 1985. Project leader, "Escola dos Continuadores" and "Centro de Cultura", ADPP Mozambique. Moved to DAPP in Zambia, 1989. Last heard of in charge off all Hope Projects and Hope Stations in Zambia.
Manager, Floryl plantation, Brazil. Jensen was involved in the purchase of the land in 1992-4 and raising the funding for it. It was he who signed an application in 1992 to La Societe Verte for funding 'a unique nature protection project'. He was a member of the executive committee of La Societe Verte, 1992 (all cited in the 2001 Danish police report). Also (1995): named in connection with Camberley Ltd, Radmore Ltd and Chatswood Ltd, key Tvind companies, all cited in Danish police report. Associated with the Polynesian biogas project.
He is considered to belong to the Teachers Group 'inner circle', described as 'a TG troubleshooter' sent to look after important Tvind enterprises - like Floryl. Trained as an architect, formerly one of Amdi Petersen's security advisers.
Lena Jensen
Director of Stichting Humana (Netherlands), 2002. Probably the same Per J named as a sales contact for Planet Aid US in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Danish, female. Australia. Alias Vibeke Henning or Vibeke Bjornlund. The wife of fellow TG member Henning Bjornlund, senior Teachers Group financial controller, 1972-90. A director of Resources Recycling (UK) in 1986. Now left the Teachers Group and living in Australia.
Else Jeppesen
Works for Teachers group commercial clothes company Garson and Shaw Inc, in Atlanta, USA, where she was several years aago noted to be ' 'rooming' with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain. She is also currently (2007) a director of dormant clothes company Garson & Shaw UK.
Previously, in the Netherlands, she was involved with the large family of Anglo-Dutch Teachers Group companies run by Flemming Gustafsson, that existed at about the time of the sudden scandalous bankruptcy of EC Trading. She was a director of TG clothes companies ConMore BV, and Seabridge International. In 2002, she was registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore BV, along with Fred de Borst.
Previously may have worked at Floryl plantation, Brazil for some years.
Berit Johansen
Berit Johansen, head teacher of the Small School at Søgårdhus
A manager of UFF Sweden in February 2001, according to Swedish news report.
Named as sales contact for UFF Sweden in Gotenburg in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Manager of Garson and Shaw Inc, Teachers Group clothing business in Atlanta, Georgia. Was rooming with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen (2) of U'SAgain
Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia).
Josefin Jonsson
Recently (1999) director of Planet Aid in California, and director of Planet Aid central America programmes. In 1987, one of four founders of the IFAS, currently subject of legal action in Denmark. We think she was just following orders.
Formerly in staff at Red House School, UK. Under construction.
Benny Jørgensen
A very long-standing member of the Teachers Group, trained in 1976 at Det Nødvendige Seminarium. Now working at the Tvind school centre in Ulfborg as a teacher at the so-called "PTG Botilbud på Tvind".
Finn Jørgensen
Member, board, Humanitarian Foundation, c2001
A former director of comopanies in the UK - Humana UK, Resources Recycling Ltd (c1986), and All_Europe Satellite TV (c1989)
('Poul the Younger' (born 10th August 1958) and not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark (See Poul Joergensen (1), above).
A used clothes expert, currently runs U'SAgain, Atlanta. In July 2003, was noted to be rooming with fellow TG members Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw, also in Atlanta.
Previously Poul (2) was president (1994) of Humana France, and also was a director of EC Trading, the key TG clothing business that went spectacularly bankrupt in 2000, owing 5 million guilder. Read our dossier on EC Trading.
Steffen Jørgensen
Once director, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB, Malaysia, companies associated with sawmill scam.
Sune Jørgensen
Sune Jørgensen, curator of 'Friends Forever' and leader of Tvind's Kunstforening (Tvinds Arts Association)
Kimo Karsikis
IICD Massachusetts (2003)
[pic] Taveuni, Fiji, where he is resident with fellow TG member Lilian Ekbom. He and Ekbom were Teachers at DNS in around 1980-81. Both are signatories of the Swiss-based Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action (2007). 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."
Knud Kjellerup
Annika Kleveman
Associated with UFF Sweden, around 2002. Thought by Dagens Nyheter unlikely to be Teachers Group.
Formerly director, Green World recycling (UK). Last known address at St Petersburg, Russia
Marcus Kozok
Believed to have once been in charge of TG 'management trainees' in former eastern Europe and Russia, and former headmaster, Denmark. Now reported to have left TG
In 2000, a director of EC Trading, which went bust owing 5 million guilders. Read our dossier on EC Trading.
Danish. Female. A high ranking member of the inner circle of the Teachers Group, extremely loyal to Amdi. Wherever Amdi was, she was too. 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.
Krohn is an ultra-hard core member of the Tvind Teachers Group, and has played a part in many Tvind offshore companies, secret trusts and financial enterprises. She frequently earns a mention in the 2001 Danish Police report. She has had an important part to play in the Brazil Floresta Jatoba story - the TG's immense estate in Brazil - and is still actively working for Tvind to acquire land and property.
In the 1990s, Krohn was a board member (1987-93) of IFAS, the so-called 'Institute for Reasearch and Applied Science'. According to Danish police, this was not a research body at all, but a Tvind financial front created to launder money into the 'Teachers Group Treasury'. She was also a director of Kirchheiner Bros, one of the main Teachers Group 'money pots', based in the Channel Isles, a trustee of the Hobbhouse Trust (1995) and a trustee of the Farmers trust (1995).
She escaped prosecution in the 2003-2006 Danish trial, but was one of eight Teachers Group leaders separately charged with money laundering in Belgium in 2002, although charges were dropped.
Krohn is today a director of Jersey-registered Fairbank, Cooper, Lyle (FCL), the Tvind offshore company that owns the Teachers Groups's plantations. She is also one of the TG members behind TG Pacifico, the massive new $10 million Tvind 'headquarters building' at San Juan de las Pulgas, in Mexico. In 2007, she was listed as a director of UK company Mt Lezard Estate.
Lisbeth Krohn
General manager, Casa Creation SARL (before 2007)
Poul Lange
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia. Mentioned here.
Henrik Lanter
India, listed in 2002 as running Acacia Enterprises (P) Ltd Delhi, one of the companies listed as a 'sales agent' by Garson & Shaw Inc (2002).
Birgitte Larsen / Birgitte Lerbech Larsen
Occasional cashier of the Humanitarian Foundation, c1986-88. Teachers Group Members Birgitte Larsen, Karen Thorst and Karin Palmelund were also all named in the 2003 Danish police report as associated with three similarly-named offshore companies, Holland Enterprise Ltd, Holland House Ltd, and Holland Trading Ltd. Danish police considered them central to the Teachers Group network of offshore companies, and they are also likely to be linked to the massive international Teachers Group financial 'clothes laundry'.
Now perhaps Angola, in 2001 the head teacher of one of the travelling high schools in Denmark.
Director, All Europe Satellite TV, 1986, one of the companies cited in the Danish Police report for allegedly creaming off money supposed to be spent on 'research'. Also a vice president, B&B Shipping, Cayman Islands, the company that 'leased' the Return of Marco Polo to the Tvind company concerned, IFAS>
HAs been resident in Florida, Holland and Moscow. Also known to have been a manager, CCTT, and director, Unicorn Trans World Trading Ltd (Holland) 1995.
Maria Lichtenberg
Thought to be resident in South Africa. A director of the CCTG college in California (2006). She is the sister of Simon Lichtenberg, founder of the Trayton group of companies in China. He is widely expected to be the next leader of the Teachers Group.
Danish. Aged 39 in 2006. Resident in China, where he runs is the Trayton Group.
A Teachers Group child. Hence he is rather younger than many other TG members. His parents joined the TG when he was seven years old and he was brought up in a private Tvind school. He has a sister, Marie, also in the TG. Lichtenberg went on to progress inside the TG, working for the organisation in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Information given to Tvind Alert suggests that by the early 1990s he was one of a number of top-ranking TG members gathered together by Amdi Petersen in Miami and despatched around the world as part of a plan to expand Tvind's business empire. Lichtenberg was tasked with growing the Chinese market. The Trayton Group is the result.
He is now widely tipped as an eventual successor as the head of the Tvind Empire on the retirement of the present guru Mogens Amdi Petersen. More information
Tomas Lindstrom
Swedish, TG member at least 15 years. Formerly head teacher at One World Institute in Norway and director, CCTG, Etna, California - now possibly in New Zealand.
Danish. Copenhagen. Trustee, The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action, Geneva (2007)
Associated with the 'secret' Morocco company 'Casablanca' identidied in the 1990 Swedish Valdelin Report.
Jesper Lubbert
Danish. Gaia Movement Trust, Chicago where she has been a manager since around 1998. Also associated with a recent foundation in Switzerland.
In the 1990s Lund was closely associated with the discredited Humana UK and Red House Schools charities in Britain , which were all closed down by the Charity Commission in 1998 for 'serious financial impropriety'. She was company secretary of Humana UK from December 1995 to September 1998, and a director of the Small School at Red House Ltd from April 1995 to May 1997.
In 1998 she was listed as a non-resident director of Humana in Ireland. Just prior to her departure from the board of Humana UK she became a director of the CICD (College for International Cooperation and Development) which occupies the former Winestead Hall School (July 1998-April 1999).
She is most recently listed as an officer of the Swiss 'societe anonyme' Humana and PlanetAid Finance SA, Geneva, founded in 2005. Full details at http://www.tiny.cc/geneva2.
DAPP UK - company secretary (2007). Previously, principal at Danish school DRH Holsted (2002). With Tvind appx 20 years. Formerly (appx 1987) supposedly at Tvind 'cattle ranch' in Queensland, Australia, 'run out of town'. Son works for Tvind, China.
Tom Madsen
Pia Madvig
Director, South China Sea Farming SB, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB in Malaysia - associated with alleged sawmill scam. As far as we are aware, has now left the Teachers Group.
Treasurer of Planet Aid Inc in the USA, and also educational director of IICD Massachusetts college. Jytte Martinussen is surely honest, principled and well-meaning, but she is a Tvind person through and through - once a project leader in Africa, Tvind headmistress, treasurer of the Tvind enterprise Planet Aid Inc and on the staff of Fonden E-advice in Denmark before coming to Massachusetts. She is undoubtedly a member of the Teachers Group, indoctrinated into Tvind's command structure and unique financial code, and having worked virtually nowhere else.
UFF Denmark, 2000. Named as sales contact for UFF Denmark in documentation concerning the scandalous bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Anne Marie Moeller
Boss in Humana-India - recently pictured receiving an award from Paul Wolfowitz, when he was heading the World Bank
Associated with Tvind in Britain: company secretary of a Faelleseje-owned company, Red House Management (Norfolk) Limited in 1984, later a director of Humana UK. Mentioned by Steen Thomsen as a senior Tvind operative when he tried to leave the organisation, in his memoir, 'Concerning Tvind'. Present whereabouts unknown.
Secretary, Humana France, to 1994
Treasurer, Humana Austria, 2004
Josephus Hermanus Maria (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.
In the 1990s, associated with a family of UK-Dutch clothes trading companies, as company secretary of Agence Notre Dame (now dissolved). Around the same time he was a shareholder of Cedex Pak, an offshore company that was creaming money off Humana UK. Other Tvind appointments include: trustee, Hobbhouse Trust (1995), trustee, Farmers Trust (1995), key Tvind management companies.
He's mentioned in the case summary of the Danish police against top-members of Tvind as a director of South China Sea Farming SB and implicated in Malaysian sawmill scam. Nagel was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-4
Treasurer of the new Humana charity in Britain, DAPP UK.
Previously a very senior Teachers Group member with Humana and UFF in Scandinavia. He was vice chairman of UFF Sweden, probably between 1999-2001. In February 2002, he was President of UFF Sweden. In a radio debate with journalist Nuri Kino on Radio Sweden on 21st February 2002, he was described as 'Amdi Petersen's closest co-worker in Sweden'
Ester Neltrup
President of Planet Aid, Inc, USA. Co-founder of Planet Aid in the USA with Mikael Norling, and also a former principal of IICD Massachusetts.
Senior Tvind business trustee. A manager of the Floryl plantation in Brazil (1996) and with Tvind operations in Casablanca, Morocco. Managing director of Rookbridge Commercial Ltd (1993). Other appointments (1995): Camberley Ltd, Radmore Ltd and Chatswood Ltd, all cited in Danish police report.
Birgitte Hector Nielsen
Chair of IFAS, 1987-1993. Body allegedly used to launder money from the Humanitarian Fund
[pic] CEO of the Gaia Movement clothes collection enterprise, based in Chicago. Lund is also a trustee of the Swiss association, The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action (Geneva) along with some powerful Teachers group leaders.
Lund has also been a director of Planet Aid Inc in the USA. With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years. Aged about 55 (in April 02). A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India.
A director of Planet Aid UK, address given as Bogense, Denmark. (2007)
Named as comntact for Trade Link Romania, sales agent for Garson & Shaw Inc in Romania. Not known if this still exists.
Danish. Female. Jytte Nielsen has been a member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies and has been involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European countries including Holland, Belgium, France (secretary and treasurer), Spain, the UK, Austria, Sweden and of course Denmark. She is also registered as the owner of several of the Tvind empire's different companies and estates.
In the mid-1990s her address was given as Brussels. She then had a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next to her fellow TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen was director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Learned about clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Was a director of Stichting Humana Fondsenwerving in the Netherlands to 2001.
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.
Danish. Early graduate of the Tvind system. In the 1970s, as a young firebrand, he notoriously praised Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge dictator responsible for the death of millions in Cambodia's 'killing fields'.
Norling is a key person in the expansion of the Teachers Group in the USA. With fellow TG member Ester Neltrup, he founded IICD Massachusetts in 1986 and Planet Aid in 1997. He has also been a director of IICD Michigan.Today he runs a Wall Street fundraising office for Planet Aid.
Gunnar Olsen
One of two bosses of used clothes collection in UFF Denmark.
Fred Olsson (Per Torsten Freddy Olsson)
Manager of Planet Aid in the United States. A member of the Tvind Teachers Group for many years: in 1980 he helped set up UFF Sweden, the Teachers Group recycling enterprise in Sweden. This branch of the Tvind empire has subsequently been the subject of several investigative newspaper articles and action by the Swedish authorities. See newspaper articles about UFF in Sweden.
In 1996 he was manager of French clothes company Texex. He moved to the US after Humana France was closed in 1996 and was named as sales contact for Planet Aid US in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Mr Olsson is fond of telling journalists that Planet Aid is an independent charity and has nothing to do with Tvind or its leader, Amdi Petersen. Perhaps Fred Olsson believes what he says, but to deny that he has anything to do with Tvind is palpable nonsense.
Teachers Group Members Birgitte Larsen, Karen Thorst and Karin Palmelund were all named in the 2003 Danish police report as associated with three similarly-named offshore companies, Holland Enterprise Ltd, Holland House Ltd, and Holland Trading Ltd. Danish police considered them central to the Teachers Group network of offshore companies, and they are also likely to be linked to the massive international Teachers Group financial 'clothes laundry'.
Anne Sophie Pedersen
Deputy chairperson of IFAS, 1987-1993
Else Marie Pedersen
Danish, female. Else Marie Pedersen, has been working 15 years for Humana, probably now working for IICD in the US as promotions manager.
In 2001 she was associated with UFF in Sweden, where she was said by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter to be working for ' the recruiting organ of the Teacher Group' in Stockholm.
Last heard of in charge, UFF Norway. Named as sales contact for UFF Norway in Oslo in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Jostein Pedersen
A director of CCTG college, California. Also associated with Planet Aid in the New Jersey area, USA.
Sven Pedersen / Petersen / Sven Hougaard Pedersen
Last known in South Africa at Kwa Zulu experimental College. If this is the same Pedersen, he may now be resident in Togo, west Africa, and a director of the dormant Teachers Group commercial clothes company Garson & Shaw UK. Pedersen has a background in the clothes trade - iIn 2000, he was a director of EC Trading, which went bust owing 5 million guilders. Read our dossier on EC Trading.
Lars Peter Pendrup
The chairman for UFF in Denmark
Ellen Holberg Petersen
Ole Tarp Petersen
Director, Green World Recycling Ltd (UK) and address at Skoerboerk, Denmark (2007)
Florida in 1980s-90s. Later director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd.
Jeanette Riise
Associated as a TG member with UFF Sweden in around 2001.
Danish. Female. Member of board of IFAS 1987-1993.
Ring was one of eight TG members accused of money laundering in a failed prosecution in Belgium, 2002-4
Geneva, Switzerland. British-born Lawyer. Probably not a member of the TG but a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust in Geneva. According to a press statement by World Wrestling Entertainment, which is in dispute with Rogers, he was controversially involved in establishing Dar Al Maal Al Islam, an Islamic charity. As well as being a Gaia signatory, Rogers provided Gaia with an accommodation address and forwarded correspondence to Tvind in Amsterdam.
Jorge Alejandro Romero
Veren Schafer
[pic] Last known Zambia - wholesale clothing. German. Trained at Travelling Folk High School in Norway, volunteer fundraiser in South Africa and New Delhi. Zambia since November 1999.
Bunnik, Holland, late 90s. Director, Planet Aid UK (2000).
Paris. Trustee of the secret Swiss association, the Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action assocoiation, Switzerland (2007). Was also believed to be trading clothes for the Teachers group in Benin and Ghana, west Africa, in around 2002 through the company Tropical Trading Benin. . Sister of Ruth Sejeroe-Olsen
[pic] Danish. Female. Accountant. Senior 'second-in-command' level member of the Teachers Group. After 1992 a key figure in the LG Economy group, directed by Amdi Petersen and Kirsten Larsen, to control Tvind financial affairs.
Also a 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.
Considered by police a key person in the acquisition of the Fazenda Jatoba ranch in Brazil, together with Marlene Gunst, Amdi Petersen and Kirsten Larsen.
In May 2001, along with Amdi Petersen and Marlene Gunst, she informed the Danish authorities that she was 'emigrating' to Britain, where she was 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.
(???) Was a member of executive committee, La Societe Verte, 1992 (cited in Danish police report
Female. Danish. Manager, Planet Aid UK. Also a director of the College for International Cooperation and Development (CICD). A trustee of The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action, Geneva, (2007). Lives in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK.
This is Birgit Soe's biography from a Humana web page: 'I was a part of founding the first organisation in the HUMANA People to People movement. At that time I was working full time as a primary school teacher, and for the first 10 years I worked as a volunteer outside my normal working hours to build up the organisation. I especially worked with a lot of children, in the DAPP scout movement. In 1986 I visited the DAPP projects in Zambia, and I could see that it was so important to do the projects in Africa, so I decided to resign from my teachers job and work full time with HUMANA People to People, which is what I have been doing since that time.'
Named as sales contact for both Planet Aid UK and UFF in Sweden in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Green World Recycling, UK. Partner of Birgit Soe.
Named as sales contact for Green World Recycling in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Danish. Skaerbaek, Denmark. A trustee of The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action (Geneva) 2007.
Danish. Female. Whereabouts unclear. Said to be 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.
From 1987 to 1993 was chairperson of the Humanitarian Foundation (cited in Danish Police Report). In this capacity, allegedly key role in making grants to other Tvind organistions (eg IFAS and La Societe Verte) for supposed charity and research work.
Originally charged with fraud in 2001 and faced trial, but found not guilty by the provincial court and not included in the second (2006) round of charges.
Elise Sørensen
Child Aid, Zambia
Else Sørensen
Else Sørensen, head teacher of Roskilde Friskole
Else Grue Sørensen
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia
Henrik Sørensen
'Leader' of the All Europe Satellite TV studio, 1988
Lotte Sørensen / Lise-Lotte Sørensen
A member of the Teachers Group for at least 26 years, until recently boss of the school center at Nakkeboelle in Denmark, now in Humana HQ in Zimbabwe.
Danish, male. Known as 'The Farmer'. Very senior in Teachers Group agribusiness in Central and South America. Currently, manager of the Fazenda Jatoba timber and fruit plantation in Brazil, and on the board of directors for the new Teachers Group 'headquarters building', TG Pacifico, under construction in San Juan de las Pulgas, Mexico.
Previously, until around 2003, he was manager of the Teachers Group banana plantations in Belize and some kind of boss for TG plantations in the rest of Central and South America. Sorensen broke the strike in Ecuador when Rio Culebra workers at the Rio Culebra plantation went on strike there in 2001-2.
Danish Male. One of the original 100 founder signatories of the Teachers group in around 1970. Since then he has worked for Amdi Petersen all over the world.
In the early 1990s he was a shareholder of Cedex Pak, an offshore company that was creaming money off Humana UK. By around 1990-2, he was a director of South China Sea Farming SB (Malaysia), a company associated with alleged laundering throughthe Malaysian sawmill scam that featred in the 2003 danish police report..
Other positions have included membeship of two central TG financial trusts, the Hobbhouse Trust (1995) and the Farmers Trust (1995)
In 2002, a director, Stichting Humana (Netherlands). May be resident in Ireland.
Named as sales contact for Humana Ireland in Dublin in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Belize. Founding trustee of The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action Association, Switzerland, May 1998.
Ulrike Stolsch / Ulrikke Stosch
Head teacher of IICD Massachusetts also a director of the CCTG college in California. (2006)
Trustee, The Gaia-Movement Trust Living Earth Green World Action, Switzerland (2007)
Ole Tarp
Ole Tarp, headmaster of The International Afterschool (Den Internationale Efterskole) at Roskilde in Denmark
Ann Thompson
British. Last heard of running clothes operation for DAPP, Malawi (2003) . more
[pic] Last heard of Malawi. DAPP Clothes and Shoes, Blantyre. Travelling High School, 1991, then Angola. DAPP Malawi since 1995.
Paul Edwin Timothy Tipple
Lone Torbeson
E-advice, Denmark
Gerda Tranberg
Gerda Tranberg, head teacher at the school center in Frederikshavn - member of the TG for about 30 years.
Joep Trompert
Humana, Holland. Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading. Last heard of with Human Holland at Bunnik. Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland. (Sept 2003)
Lise Uldbjerg
Jan Utzon
Probably NOT a member of the Teachers Group, but apparently a prominent and active suporter. Architect, member of famous Danish architectural dynasty - a relative designed Sydney Opera House. SHas designed many Tvind buildings including the Zimbabwe headquarters, the new IICD Michigan college, the Trayton furniture factory in China, DNS Chimoio (Mozambique) and DNS Cabinda
'One of the original 100 founding signatories of the Teachers Group in 1970s. According to informants he is 'one of Amdi Petersen's troubleshooters, who solve problems all over the world'.
He was a board consultant of the bogus 'scientific consultancy'', IFAS, c1988. In the 1990s he was a shareholder of Cedex Pak, an offshore company that was creaming money off Humana UK. More recently a director of Bahia Farming, the Jersey registered company that is parent company of the Fazenda Jatoba ranch in Brazil. According to recent Court Hearings now living in Zimbabwe.
Veronique van Steen
Promotions manager at DRH in Holsted (Travelling High School)
Jan-Willem Verlinden
Hanne Vesterborg
Danish. Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, 1988. One of the people who gave the nod to All Europe Satellite television Ltd in 1988. We assume she was just following orders.
Danish. Female. Likely to be in Belize.
Lawyer and senior Teachers Group financial manager. Described as 'working secretly with Amdi for years' and 'hard core Tvind' . A partner with senior TG drector Poul Joergensen (1) in the Danish legal firm Vestergaard og Joergensen i/s (Denmark), which sells legal consulting services to Tvind.
Was Deputy Chairperson of Humanitarian Foundation 1993-1999. In some periods also administered the Foundation directly with Amdi Petersen and Kirsten Larsen, according to Danish police report.
Other positions included: company secretary and director, Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (1993), company secretary and director, Garson and Shaw (1999).
Originally charged by Danish police in 2001, but charges dropped n February 2002.
Recently appointed company secretary of dormant trading company Garson & Shaw UK
Danish, female. For many years head of ADPP in Angola, where she is well connected, and a board member of the social fund of the state oil company, Sonangol - which plays a significant part in funding ADPP there. According to former ADPP Angola treasurer Britta Junge, large amounts of Sonangol social fund money were taken by air from Angolan banks to Teachers Grou accounts in Denmark during the 1990s.
Board member IFAS, 1987-1993. Also a founder of the Foundation. (Danish Police report)
Mattias Wallander
[pic] 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
Named as sales contact for Humana Greece in documentation concerning the scandalous 2000 bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Bo Wallin
Associated with UFF Sweden in around 2002. Said not to be a member of the Teachers Group by Dagens Nyheter. But 'has children who are involved'.
Henrik Wibrand
Captain, Return of Marco Polo, c1987-8
A trustee of the new British Humana charity, DAPP UK. Formerly with ADPP in Guinea-Bissau.
Norwegian, male. Long history with TG (1978-1992) but may now have left, as he appears to have cooperated with police.
Involved with the IFAS operation (later told police it was run by Amdi Petersen.) Prepared fund application to IFAS for All Europe Satellite Television Ltd - Voice of the Third World - with sailing studio on board ship, 1988.
Signed for Faelleseje in Talata deal, 1988. Director of All Europe Satellite TV, c1989-1992. Headmaster, One World Institute, Norway, c1991. Member of Council of Management, Red House School, UK, 1994.
[pic] Danish. Male. President, Humana Spain and Portugal. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'.
Wohlert has been involved in Humana activities - clothes trading and schools - all over Europe. He is listed as a director of Planet Aid UK, and is a former board member of Humana UK, Humana Holland, Humana Germany, Humana France (president and secretary 1995-6) and Humana Belgium in Gent (manager).
He was mentioned as sales contact for Humana Barcelona and Humana Brussels in documentation concerning the scandalous bankruptcy of Dutch clothes company EC Trading, went bankrupt owing £1.4m in May 2000. This money was never recovered and was written off - effectively entering the Teachers Group's coffers. Read Tvind Alert' dossier on EC Trading.
Other enterprises he has been associated with are Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), The Small School at Red House (member of council), He disappeared from the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers Group member Erik Dorph-Jensen, shortly after publication of articles in the Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.
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