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Investigating the Tvind organisation and exchanging information in 50 countries
No 4 Sept 15th 2002
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TOTAL CONTROL OF THE EPIDEMIC under the microscope. Tvind Alert contact James has offered to put Tvinds TCE programme under the microscope for a new page on Tvind Alert and is interested to hear anecdotes, ideas or offers of help from anyone with information about the TCE programme in Africa. Is it as good as Tvind claims? Contact James on j_a_carter@hotmail.com or call UK cellphone 07790 211938 after 17.00h UK time.
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Jes Fabricius Mllers brief information on Tvind and news update for non-Danes: http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/jesfab/abouttvind.htm#update
Friedrich Griesss German-language archive of Tvind news:
http://griess.st1.at/tvind
IICD Watch:
http://iicdwatch.bravepages.com/
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AMDI APPEARS IN COURT IN DENMARK
Amdi Petersen appeared in court in Denmark today (Sunday) after arriving at Copenhagen airport at noon on Saturday. Hiding his face police rushed him from the airport to the court jail in Ringkoebing. At the court hearing today Petersen pleaded not guilty. He appears to be in good shape. The courts decision - whether Amdi P. should stay in custody - will be published Monday morning. (Visit Tvind Alert to find out the decision.) (Source: Danish media)
Steen Byrner, a former economy manager of the Teachers Group, has sent a letter of support for Amdi Petersen to the court taking responsibility for some of the transactions in question. Steen Byrner lives in Ecuador and now claims to have no connection with Tvind or the TG. (Source: Ritzau news agency)
Preparations are well underway to situate the trial at the courts of rhus on the eastern coast of Jutland. There is also talk of an earlier date for the trial to begin (than Feb 19th). (Source: Jyllands-Posten)
Politiken story: http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=233441 (in Danish)
REPORT LINKS AMDI TO SECOND HAND CLOTHES SCAM
In its detailed article on Tvinds used clothes trading in Holland and Jersey (August 24th) Berlingske Tidende, the Danish newspaper, linked Amdi Petersen directly with an offshore company said to have received millions of Euros that disappeared from Tvind used clothes charities. A summary of some of the main points of this article is now posted on Tvind Alert at: (http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/newspapers/2002/berlingske24aug.htm)
In
the article journalist Michael Bjerre says Tvind has deceived the European
public for years, by making them believe their second hand clothes would be used
to help the poor in the Third World. Instead Tvind
directed the millions earned by selling the clothes given by the public directly
to secret companies on the tax haven Jersey.
The firm Textile Transformation EC Trading in Amsterdam, which went
bankrupt in 2000, played a major role in the money game. In the end the millions
disappeared into the mother company of the Jersey-firms, Coriander Holdings Ltd,
which a source says, is controlled by Tvind-leader Amdi Petersen.
Holland plays a major role in Tvind's clothes recycling gig. In this game Teachers Group member Flemming Gustaffson plays a significant role. Gustaffson, who is charged with money laundering in Belgium, is now a key person in a recently started Tvind company, ConMore, which keeps a shabby office in the city of Maarssen, south-east of Amsterdam. ConMore is the European agent of Tvind's worldwide clothes recycling company Garson and Shaw, with offices in Britain and the United States. At first there was a strong denial of the Jersey-firms being connected to the Tvind-group, but at a later stage the directors of some of the Jersey-firms confessed that they were a part of the Tvind-group.
More detailed summary of Berlingske Tidende article: http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/newspapers/2002/berlingske24aug.htm
A full German translation of the Berlingske Tidende article now available
click here to read it
The story of Textile Transformation EC Trading
Tvind company in Holland that went bankrupt recently owing millions of Euros a main director was Flemming Gustaffson. As told to Tvind Alert.
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/companies/textile_transformation.htm
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From the Danish press:
Sept 10th: Amdi Petersen has asked for a second lawyer. Two
lawyers have been appointed by Poul Joergensen, and Amdi Petersen wants the same
for himself which should, like his current lawyer Anders Boelskifte, be paid for
by the Danish government. The judge for now has dismissed the request. (Ekstra
Bladet, Jyllands-Posten)
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Messages from readers:
PORTUGAL
Radiotelevisio Portuguesa, which has already made a programme about Humana in
Portugal, has received a complaint from Tvind and would like a copy of the
script of recent Dutch TV programmes on Humana, preferably in English or French.
Can anyone help? Contact
Fatima Cavaco tel 00 35 121 794 73 50, fax 00 35 121 794 73 73, email fatima.cavaco@rtp.pt.
LOLLAND-FALSTER, DENMARK
Katja Moikjaer, a journalist on a regional newspaper in Lolland-Falster in Denmark, would like to know if any towns or cities there still send troubled children and teenagers to any of Tvinds schools. Can anybody help? Katja Moikjaer, tel +45 548 80387 or +45 287 78765 or email katja@folketidende.dk
ANGOLA
BP STOPS FUNDING ADPP, BUT BIG AMERICAN ORG IS STILL INVOLVED
ADPP in Angola has received large sums from multinational
oil companies in payments linked to oil prospecting concessions.
A Tvind Alert contact writes: As
far as I know BP have withdrawn all funding, Shell never started, the biggest
donor to ADPP is now Sonangol, the Angola state oil company.
The only other route for real embarrassment is the oil company funded
aids-prevention programme in Luanda (USAID put in $7m, the bigger oilies all put
in $0.5m each), the programme is run by PSI International, a very
respectable outfit based in Washington DC. They are well aware of the
reputation of ADPP, but a year ago ADPP were still significant part of their
community based condom sales programme.
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