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An investigation into Humana People-to-People. the Teachers Group and the international Tvind movement.
MEXICO
TG Pacifico, Las Pulgas
The $10m 'TG Pacifico' Complex
The Teachers Group has opened a massive $10m beachside property complex in northern Mexico - big enough to be its new world headquarters.
The impressive new building, , big enough to house 300 staff, is complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic size swimming pool and helipad, on a 740-hectare estate on the Pacific coast in Baja California.
The complex will be known as the Centro Autónomo de Desarrollo Global (CADG) - Independent Centre for Global Development) - or 'TG Pacifico'. It is located at San Juan de las Pulgas ranch in remote countryside 50km south of the city of Ensenada, on the Pacific coast south of Tijuana.
Watch a slideshow of San Juan de las Pulgas
It is at the heart of a large agricultural ranch bordering the Pacific Ocean, bought from Mexican landholders between 1999 and 2003 by a Mexican-Danish company called TG Pacifico. However the development is already controversial, amid claims of cheating, malpractice and corruption.
Two TG members known to have been very active in the development of TG Pacifico are Bolette Gunst and Birgitte Khron - both known to be very senior members of Tvind's financial directorate.
Bolette Gunst, a Tvind 'Teacher' and graduate of the Necessary Teacher Training College, was a board member of the notorious Humanitarian Fund before its dissolution by Danish financial authorities in 2001. (She is the sister of Marlene Gunst, one of the Teachers Group leaders accused of fraud in the 2003-6 Humanitarian Fund fraud case.)
Birgitte Krohn is also a TG member regarded by Danish financial police as central to the Humanitarian Fund affair - she was a board member of IFAS, one of the alleged subsidiary 'environmental front companies' that police claimed was used to launder money. She was cited in the 2001 Danish police evidence, but never charged. In 2002 she was one of eight TG members seperately charged with money laundering in Belgium, but acquitted for lack of evidence.
In this case, Amdi Petersen and other TG leaders were accused of fraud by diverting charity money to buy property in Brazil. Not guilty verdicts were returned in 2006 - but Petersen and other defendants are still wanted by Danish police.
Petersen is believed to spend much of his time at Las Pulgas.
The TG Pacifico project is one of the biggest ever started by the Teachers Group-Tvind-Humana, and shows that despite two court cases and massive adverse publicity - and its claims that it is an impoverished humanitarian movement that supports the poor - the organisation still has vast resources to deploy on big plantations and showcase developments.
In Mexico, the TG is already spending more on construction work at its new Mexican ranch than it spent buying the enormous Floryl plantation in Brazil - $10 million dollars, according to information passed to Humana Alert and confirmed by papers found on the Internet. The Mexican company behind the huge development is TG Pacifico SRL DE CV.
Amdi Petersen was reported to be changing planes between Mexico and London when he was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles in 2001, fuelling suspicion that the Teachers Group had a big project in the country. There have been suggestions that Humana People-to-People could move its HQ from Zimbabwe to Mexico when the dictator of the African country, Robert Mugabe, dies. Mugabe is a long-time friend and supporter of Petersen's Tvind movement.
The construction project in Mexico - a building of at least 8,000 sq metres and possibly as large as 25,000 sq metres - was so big that it originally inspired rumours among local people that Tvind is opening a mine - it appears the Teachers Group is building down as well as up, suggesting that Tvind is excavating huge cellars under the property. Locals have said the ranch is guarded by 'men with arms'.
Like so many Tvind projects, the new development comes riddled through with controversy and allegations of fraud, malpractice and corruption. According to one account sent to Tvind Alert, the TG has been allowed to proceed with the development in spite of Mexican laws forbidding ownership of beachside properties by non-Mexicans, and ignored restrictions on drilling for water.
There are even allegations the TG does not have legal title for more than half the ranch. According to one informant, Gunst and Krohn acquired 557 hectares from an intermediary, who had recently left prison, who did not have legal title to the property - leaving the original owners dispossessed. "People call them 'The European Mafia'. There is no redress because they buy everybody - delegates, lawyers, authorities, more people than your mind can imagine," our informant alleged.
Some sources
SkyscraperCity - web page in Spanish (skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-202884.html). The web page is now unavailable but a visit to the cache reveals many details of the 'megaproyecto' construction project (and photograph) in an exchange between officials.
Lores Rodríguez y Cía., S.C. - Mexican firm of Public Accountants and Business Consultants with offices throughout Mexico (http://www.lores.com.mx/ingles/index.html). The web page http://www.lores.com.mx/boletin/htmail/dinamarcaing.html indicates the company has one Danish client - TG Pacifico SRL DE CV. No further information.
Banamex - Mexican banking site (http://www.banamex.com/esp/noticias/20050418historico.html#). The news for 18th April 2005 has an intriguing item, Invertirá TG Pacífico 10 millones de dólares en Ensenada, but unfortunately the link does not work.
Last updated 14th May 2009
An investigation into Humana People-to-People. the Teachers Group and the international Tvind movement.
An investigation into Humana People-to-People. the Teachers Group and the international Tvind movement.
MEXICO
TG Pacifico, Las Pulgas
The $10m 'TG Pacifico' Complex
The Teachers Group has opened a massive $10m beachside property complex in northern Mexico - big enough to be its new world headquarters.
The impressive new building, , big enough to house 300 staff, is complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic size swimming pool and helipad, on a 740-hectare estate on the Pacific coast in Baja California.
The complex will be known as the Centro Autónomo de Desarrollo Global (CADG) - Independent Centre for Global Development) - or 'TG Pacifico'. It is located at San Juan de las Pulgas ranch in remote countryside 50km south of the city of Ensenada, on the Pacific coast south of Tijuana.
Watch a slideshow of San Juan de las Pulgas
It is at the heart of a large agricultural ranch bordering the Pacific Ocean, bought from Mexican landholders between 1999 and 2003 by a Mexican-Danish company called TG Pacifico. However the development is already controversial, amid claims of cheating, malpractice and corruption.
Two TG members known to have been very active in the development of TG Pacifico are Bolette Gunst and Birgitte Khron - both known to be very senior members of Tvind's financial directorate.
Bolette Gunst, a Tvind 'Teacher' and graduate of the Necessary Teacher Training College, was a board member of the notorious Humanitarian Fund before its dissolution by Danish financial authorities in 2001. (She is the sister of Marlene Gunst, one of the Teachers Group leaders accused of fraud in the 2003-6 Humanitarian Fund fraud case.)
Birgitte Krohn is also a TG member regarded by Danish financial police as central to the Humanitarian Fund affair - she was a board member of IFAS, one of the alleged subsidiary 'environmental front companies' that police claimed was used to launder money. She was cited in the 2001 Danish police evidence, but never charged. In 2002 she was one of eight TG members seperately charged with money laundering in Belgium, but acquitted for lack of evidence.
In this case, Amdi Petersen and other TG leaders were accused of fraud by diverting charity money to buy property in Brazil. Not guilty verdicts were returned in 2006 - but Petersen and other defendants are still wanted by Danish police.
Petersen is believed to spend much of his time at Las Pulgas.
The TG Pacifico project is one of the biggest ever started by the Teachers Group-Tvind-Humana, and shows that despite two court cases and massive adverse publicity - and its claims that it is an impoverished humanitarian movement that supports the poor - the organisation still has vast resources to deploy on big plantations and showcase developments.
In Mexico, the TG is already spending more on construction work at its new Mexican ranch than it spent buying the enormous Floryl plantation in Brazil - $10 million dollars, according to information passed to Humana Alert and confirmed by papers found on the Internet. The Mexican company behind the huge development is TG Pacifico SRL DE CV.
Amdi Petersen was reported to be changing planes between Mexico and London when he was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles in 2001, fuelling suspicion that the Teachers Group had a big project in the country. There have been suggestions that Humana People-to-People could move its HQ from Zimbabwe to Mexico when the dictator of the African country, Robert Mugabe, dies. Mugabe is a long-time friend and supporter of Petersen's Tvind movement.
The construction project in Mexico - a building of at least 8,000 sq metres and possibly as large as 25,000 sq metres - was so big that it originally inspired rumours among local people that Tvind is opening a mine - it appears the Teachers Group is building down as well as up, suggesting that Tvind is excavating huge cellars under the property. Locals have said the ranch is guarded by 'men with arms'.
Like so many Tvind projects, the new development comes riddled through with controversy and allegations of fraud, malpractice and corruption. According to one account sent to Tvind Alert, the TG has been allowed to proceed with the development in spite of Mexican laws forbidding ownership of beachside properties by non-Mexicans, and ignored restrictions on drilling for water.
There are even allegations the TG does not have legal title for more than half the ranch. According to one informant, Gunst and Krohn acquired 557 hectares from an intermediary, who had recently left prison, who did not have legal title to the property - leaving the original owners dispossessed. "People call them 'The European Mafia'. There is no redress because they buy everybody - delegates, lawyers, authorities, more people than your mind can imagine," our informant alleged.
Some sources
SkyscraperCity - web page in Spanish (skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-202884.html). The web page is now unavailable but a visit to the cache reveals many details of the 'megaproyecto' construction project (and photograph) in an exchange between officials.
Lores Rodríguez y Cía., S.C. - Mexican firm of Public Accountants and Business Consultants with offices throughout Mexico (http://www.lores.com.mx/ingles/index.html). The web page http://www.lores.com.mx/boletin/htmail/dinamarcaing.html indicates the company has one Danish client - TG Pacifico SRL DE CV. No further information.
Banamex - Mexican banking site (http://www.banamex.com/esp/noticias/20050418historico.html#). The news for 18th April 2005 has an intriguing item, Invertirá TG Pacífico 10 millones de dólares en Ensenada, but unfortunately the link does not work.
Last updated 14th May 2009
MEXICO
TG Pacifico, Las Pulgas
The $10m 'TG Pacifico' Complex
The Teachers Group has opened a massive $10m beachside property complex in northern Mexico - big enough to be its new world headquarters.
The impressive new building, , big enough to house 300 staff, is complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic size swimming pool and helipad, on a 740-hectare estate on the Pacific coast in Baja California.
The complex will be known as the Centro Autónomo de Desarrollo Global (CADG) - Independent Centre for Global Development) - or 'TG Pacifico'. It is located at San Juan de las Pulgas ranch in remote countryside 50km south of the city of Ensenada, on the Pacific coast south of Tijuana.
Watch a slideshow of San Juan de las Pulgas
It is at the heart of a large agricultural ranch bordering the Pacific Ocean, bought from Mexican landholders between 1999 and 2003 by a Mexican-Danish company called TG Pacifico. However the development is already controversial, amid claims of cheating, malpractice and corruption.
Two TG members known to have been very active in the development of TG Pacifico are Bolette Gunst and Birgitte Khron - both known to be very senior members of Tvind's financial directorate.
Bolette Gunst, a Tvind 'Teacher' and graduate of the Necessary Teacher Training College, was a board member of the notorious Humanitarian Fund before its dissolution by Danish financial authorities in 2001. (She is the sister of Marlene Gunst, one of the Teachers Group leaders accused of fraud in the 2003-6 Humanitarian Fund fraud case.)
Birgitte Krohn is also a TG member regarded by Danish financial police as central to the Humanitarian Fund affair - she was a board member of IFAS, one of the alleged subsidiary 'environmental front companies' that police claimed was used to launder money. She was cited in the 2001 Danish police evidence, but never charged. In 2002 she was one of eight TG members seperately charged with money laundering in Belgium, but acquitted for lack of evidence.
In this case, Amdi Petersen and other TG leaders were accused of fraud by diverting charity money to buy property in Brazil. Not guilty verdicts were returned in 2006 - but Petersen and other defendants are still wanted by Danish police.
Petersen is believed to spend much of his time at Las Pulgas.
The TG Pacifico project is one of the biggest ever started by the Teachers Group-Tvind-Humana, and shows that despite two court cases and massive adverse publicity - and its claims that it is an impoverished humanitarian movement that supports the poor - the organisation still has vast resources to deploy on big plantations and showcase developments.
In Mexico, the TG is already spending more on construction work at its new Mexican ranch than it spent buying the enormous Floryl plantation in Brazil - $10 million dollars, according to information passed to Humana Alert and confirmed by papers found on the Internet. The Mexican company behind the huge development is TG Pacifico SRL DE CV.
Amdi Petersen was reported to be changing planes between Mexico and London when he was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles in 2001, fuelling suspicion that the Teachers Group had a big project in the country. There have been suggestions that Humana People-to-People could move its HQ from Zimbabwe to Mexico when the dictator of the African country, Robert Mugabe, dies. Mugabe is a long-time friend and supporter of Petersen's Tvind movement.
The construction project in Mexico - a building of at least 8,000 sq metres and possibly as large as 25,000 sq metres - was so big that it originally inspired rumours among local people that Tvind is opening a mine - it appears the Teachers Group is building down as well as up, suggesting that Tvind is excavating huge cellars under the property. Locals have said the ranch is guarded by 'men with arms'.
Like so many Tvind projects, the new development comes riddled through with controversy and allegations of fraud, malpractice and corruption. According to one account sent to Tvind Alert, the TG has been allowed to proceed with the development in spite of Mexican laws forbidding ownership of beachside properties by non-Mexicans, and ignored restrictions on drilling for water.
There are even allegations the TG does not have legal title for more than half the ranch. According to one informant, Gunst and Krohn acquired 557 hectares from an intermediary, who had recently left prison, who did not have legal title to the property - leaving the original owners dispossessed. "People call them 'The European Mafia'. There is no redress because they buy everybody - delegates, lawyers, authorities, more people than your mind can imagine," our informant alleged.
Some sources
SkyscraperCity - web page in Spanish (skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-202884.html). The web page is now unavailable but a visit to the cache reveals many details of the 'megaproyecto' construction project (and photograph) in an exchange between officials.
Lores Rodríguez y Cía., S.C. - Mexican firm of Public Accountants and Business Consultants with offices throughout Mexico (http://www.lores.com.mx/ingles/index.html). The web page http://www.lores.com.mx/boletin/htmail/dinamarcaing.html indicates the company has one Danish client - TG Pacifico SRL DE CV. No further information.
Banamex - Mexican banking site (http://www.banamex.com/esp/noticias/20050418historico.html#). The news for 18th April 2005 has an intriguing item, Invertirá TG Pacífico 10 millones de dólares en Ensenada, but unfortunately the link does not work.
Last updated 14th May 2009
TG Pacifico, Las Pulgas
The $10m 'TG Pacifico' Complex
The Teachers Group has opened a massive $10m beachside property complex in northern Mexico - big enough to be its new world headquarters.
The impressive new building, , big enough to house 300 staff, is complete with boardroom, exhibition space, gymnasium, squash courts, Olympic size swimming pool and helipad, on a 740-hectare estate on the Pacific coast in Baja California.
The complex will be known as the Centro Autónomo de Desarrollo Global (CADG) - Independent Centre for Global Development) - or 'TG Pacifico'. It is located at San Juan de las Pulgas ranch in remote countryside 50km south of the city of Ensenada, on the Pacific coast south of Tijuana.
Watch a slideshow of San Juan de las Pulgas
It is at the heart of a large agricultural ranch bordering the Pacific Ocean, bought from Mexican landholders between 1999 and 2003 by a Mexican-Danish company called TG Pacifico. However the development is already controversial, amid claims of cheating, malpractice and corruption.
Two TG members known to have been very active in the development of TG Pacifico are Bolette Gunst and Birgitte Khron - both known to be very senior members of Tvind's financial directorate.
Bolette Gunst, a Tvind 'Teacher' and graduate of the Necessary Teacher Training College, was a board member of the notorious Humanitarian Fund before its dissolution by Danish financial authorities in 2001. (She is the sister of Marlene Gunst, one of the Teachers Group leaders accused of fraud in the 2003-6 Humanitarian Fund fraud case.)
Birgitte Krohn is also a TG member regarded by Danish financial police as central to the Humanitarian Fund affair - she was a board member of IFAS, one of the alleged subsidiary 'environmental front companies' that police claimed was used to launder money. She was cited in the 2001 Danish police evidence, but never charged. In 2002 she was one of eight TG members seperately charged with money laundering in Belgium, but acquitted for lack of evidence.
In this case, Amdi Petersen and other TG leaders were accused of fraud by diverting charity money to buy property in Brazil. Not guilty verdicts were returned in 2006 - but Petersen and other defendants are still wanted by Danish police.
Petersen is believed to spend much of his time at Las Pulgas.
The TG Pacifico project is one of the biggest ever started by the Teachers Group-Tvind-Humana, and shows that despite two court cases and massive adverse publicity - and its claims that it is an impoverished humanitarian movement that supports the poor - the organisation still has vast resources to deploy on big plantations and showcase developments.
In Mexico, the TG is already spending more on construction work at its new Mexican ranch than it spent buying the enormous Floryl plantation in Brazil - $10 million dollars, according to information passed to Humana Alert and confirmed by papers found on the Internet. The Mexican company behind the huge development is TG Pacifico SRL DE CV.
Amdi Petersen was reported to be changing planes between Mexico and London when he was arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles in 2001, fuelling suspicion that the Teachers Group had a big project in the country. There have been suggestions that Humana People-to-People could move its HQ from Zimbabwe to Mexico when the dictator of the African country, Robert Mugabe, dies. Mugabe is a long-time friend and supporter of Petersen's Tvind movement.
The construction project in Mexico - a building of at least 8,000 sq metres and possibly as large as 25,000 sq metres - was so big that it originally inspired rumours among local people that Tvind is opening a mine - it appears the Teachers Group is building down as well as up, suggesting that Tvind is excavating huge cellars under the property. Locals have said the ranch is guarded by 'men with arms'.
Like so many Tvind projects, the new development comes riddled through with controversy and allegations of fraud, malpractice and corruption. According to one account sent to Tvind Alert, the TG has been allowed to proceed with the development in spite of Mexican laws forbidding ownership of beachside properties by non-Mexicans, and ignored restrictions on drilling for water.
There are even allegations the TG does not have legal title for more than half the ranch. According to one informant, Gunst and Krohn acquired 557 hectares from an intermediary, who had recently left prison, who did not have legal title to the property - leaving the original owners dispossessed. "People call them 'The European Mafia'. There is no redress because they buy everybody - delegates, lawyers, authorities, more people than your mind can imagine," our informant alleged.
SkyscraperCity - web page in Spanish (skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-202884.html). The web page is now unavailable but a visit to the cache reveals many details of the 'megaproyecto' construction project (and photograph) in an exchange between officials.
Lores Rodríguez y Cía., S.C. - Mexican firm of Public Accountants and Business Consultants with offices throughout Mexico (http://www.lores.com.mx/ingles/index.html). The web page http://www.lores.com.mx/boletin/htmail/dinamarcaing.html indicates the company has one Danish client - TG Pacifico SRL DE CV. No further information.
Banamex - Mexican banking site (http://www.banamex.com/esp/noticias/20050418historico.html#). The news for 18th April 2005 has an intriguing item, Invertirá TG Pacífico 10 millones de dólares en Ensenada, but unfortunately the link does not work.
Last updated 14th May 2009
A cult active around
the world
A multinational business empire
Exploitation of the developing world: 'it's all about money'
Tvind's leaders are caught in luxury
Fraud charges brought to court
A cult active around
the world
A multinational business empire
Exploitation of the developing world: 'it's all about money'
Tvind's leaders are caught in luxury