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Sweden
Tvind Alert
country contacts:
'Karin', exmember@spray.se
Nuri Kino
Only 2 per cent
goes
to charity......
Tvind assets: used clothes collection, 11
second hand clothes shops, recruitment, fundraising on the streets, money from SIDA (Swedish
official government agency)
Newspaper reports:
UFF starts again with money from Tvind. 25th May 2003, Dagens Nyheter
The hold on UFF [Humana] tightens.
Changes to UFF in Sweden only confirm Tvind's grip. Dagens Nyheter March 25,
2002
Tvind
is in business
selling wood
to IKEA.
Ikea
gör affärer
med Tvind.
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden,
24th March 2002.
In
English
UFF tied in with Danish fraud case. Evidence of £4,500 a month being transferred from UFF to Tvind accounts. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, March 20, 2002:
UFF
loses its authorized fundraising account - "90-account"
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, March 19, 2002: By
Juan Flores and Nuri Kino
UFF loses its 90-account [authorized account type for charity
organizations only, a guarantee that they meet certain criteria]
The
organization has mismanaged their finances to such extent that the
gifts
from the Swedish people never arrive at the real aim for the fund, but
are used to balance the debts of the organization, says the SFI
[a
Swedish authority for control of fundraising projects].
UFF (Sweden) pays for Danish sect. (Dagens Nyheter, 29 December 2001.) by Juan Flores and Nuri Kino [in Swedish]
Huge amounts of money are channeled into the world wide Tvind-movement, despite the clothes-collector being near bankruptcy. UFF, the clothes collector, is threatened with bankruptcy having 136 complaints of missing payments and 4,5 million Swedish Crowns (£304,000 ) in debts. Dagens Nyheter publishes today documents showing that UFF of Sweden is part of a world wide empire of billions, led by the Dane Mogens Amdi Petersen, who disappeared 20 years ago and is wanted [by the police]. He is suspected of serious tax fraud.
UFF fick pengar av danska sekten
(Expressen, 22 November 2001)
Svenska skattebetalare sponsrar sektledaren (Expressen, 21 November 2001) (Swedish taxpayers support cult leader)
(Your gift to
UFF, and the Swedish government's contributions, sponsor the luxurious
life of the hidden sect leader)
Tvindrörelsens
ledare lever lyxliv i öparadiset
(Expressen, 21 November 2001)
Tvindrörelsens
försvunne ledare hittad på tropisk ö
(Expressen)
Tvind being investigated Caymanian Compass story that mentions the Valdelin report. 1991
The Valdelin Report (December 1990)
Jan Valdelin of the financial consultancy Interconsult was commissioned by the Swedish development agency, SIDA, to write a report on DAPP/UFF in Sweden. The agency wanted to know whether it should give any further grants. SIDA gave Tvind $2 million each year to help in Third World development, and Valdelin told reporters: "We are now wondering where that money has gone."
Valdelin found that only two per cent of UFF's Swedish income went to charity - the other 98 per cent stayed within the Tvind organisation. He concluded that UFF was operating a for-profit business and was not sufficiently open about its activities.
Furthermore, he tried to follow earlier SIDA grants to Africa and the Cayman Islands, and traced some of the money to a clothing company in Morocco which, on investigation, proved to be linked to a Cayman Islands company.
Studie av Sida:s Fraktbidrag till Föreningen U-Landshjälp fran Folk till Folk i Sverige. Interconsult (Jan Valdelin) - Stockholm 18.12.90
The Valdelin Report will be made available here soon (in Swedish)
SIDA stopped making grants to UFF as a result, but resumed in the mid-1990s. A senior SIDA official told Tvind Alert: "For many years, after the Interconsult report, no SIDA money was given to UFF. But around five years ago Tvind started a new company called UFF Sweden, and has applied for money every year since under the new company name. SIDA, through a local agency, has given small amounts to two projects since. [SIDA sources, January 2000]
Other reports
Report on UFF by Föreningen Rädda Individen (FRI)
(The Organisation in Defence of The Individual - Swedish anti-cult
organisation)
Includes comments on the Valdelin Report
Föreningen Rädda Individen (FRI)
Svandammsvägen 10
126 34 Hagersten
Sweden
Tel/Fax 08-709 00 77
Website: http://home.swipnet.se/FRI/
Sweden's leading cult expert, Karl-Erik
Nylund, attacks Tvind
Swedish social services are understood have included Tvind in a
brochure urging people to stay away from cults.
Companies
According to Dagens Nyheter, this is just a front organization.
Shops, clothes boxes, sorting centre, recruitment.
This company appears to have been restructured in the mid-1990s in order to qualify for grants from the Swedish government.
Dagens Nyheter, March 2002: The business is run by the association "UFF in Stockholm" - and in the
board of that organization the Teachers Group is still in the majority.
The board consists of the same persons as in the front organization,
with two exceptions: Kleveman and Dahne are not part of it.
This means that the Teachers Group has kept their right to make
decisions as regards the business itself
Tvind Alert
country contacts:
'Karin', exmember@spray.se
Nuri Kino
Only 2 per cent goesto charity......
Tvind assets: used clothes collection, 11
second hand clothes shops, recruitment, fundraising on the streets, money from SIDA (Swedish
official government agency)
Newspaper reports:
UFF starts again with money from Tvind. 25th May 2003, Dagens Nyheter
The hold on UFF [Humana] tightens.
Changes to UFF in Sweden only confirm Tvind's grip. Dagens Nyheter March 25,
2002
Tvind
is in business
selling wood
to IKEA.
Ikea
gör affärer
med Tvind.
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden,
24th March 2002.
In
English
UFF tied in with Danish fraud case. Evidence of £4,500 a month being transferred from UFF to Tvind accounts. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, March 20, 2002:
UFF
loses its authorized fundraising account - "90-account"
Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, March 19, 2002: By
Juan Flores and Nuri Kino
UFF loses its 90-account [authorized account type for charity
organizations only, a guarantee that they meet certain criteria]
The
organization has mismanaged their finances to such extent that the
gifts
from the Swedish people never arrive at the real aim for the fund, but
are used to balance the debts of the organization, says the SFI
[a
Swedish authority for control of fundraising projects].
UFF (Sweden) pays for Danish sect. (Dagens Nyheter, 29 December 2001.) by Juan Flores and Nuri Kino [in Swedish]
Huge amounts of money are channeled into the world wide Tvind-movement, despite the clothes-collector being near bankruptcy. UFF, the clothes collector, is threatened with bankruptcy having 136 complaints of missing payments and 4,5 million Swedish Crowns (£304,000 ) in debts. Dagens Nyheter publishes today documents showing that UFF of Sweden is part of a world wide empire of billions, led by the Dane Mogens Amdi Petersen, who disappeared 20 years ago and is wanted [by the police]. He is suspected of serious tax fraud.
UFF fick pengar av danska sekten
(Expressen, 22 November 2001)
Svenska skattebetalare sponsrar sektledaren (Expressen, 21 November 2001) (Swedish taxpayers support cult leader)
(Your gift to
UFF, and the Swedish government's contributions, sponsor the luxurious
life of the hidden sect leader)
Tvindrörelsens
ledare lever lyxliv i öparadiset
(Expressen, 21 November 2001)
Tvindrörelsens
försvunne ledare hittad på tropisk ö
(Expressen)
Tvind being investigated Caymanian Compass story that mentions the Valdelin report. 1991
The Valdelin Report(December 1990)
Jan Valdelin of the financial consultancy Interconsult was commissioned by the Swedish development agency, SIDA, to write a report on DAPP/UFF in Sweden. The agency wanted to know whether it should give any further grants. SIDA gave Tvind $2 million each year to help in Third World development, and Valdelin told reporters: "We are now wondering where that money has gone."
Valdelin found that only two per cent of UFF's Swedish income went to charity - the other 98 per cent stayed within the Tvind organisation. He concluded that UFF was operating a for-profit business and was not sufficiently open about its activities.
Furthermore, he tried to follow earlier SIDA grants to Africa and the Cayman Islands, and traced some of the money to a clothing company in Morocco which, on investigation, proved to be linked to a Cayman Islands company.
Studie av Sida:s Fraktbidrag till Föreningen U-Landshjälp fran Folk till Folk i Sverige. Interconsult (Jan Valdelin) - Stockholm 18.12.90
The Valdelin Report will be made available here soon (in Swedish)
SIDA stopped making grants to UFF as a result, but resumed in the mid-1990s. A senior SIDA official told Tvind Alert: "For many years, after the Interconsult report, no SIDA money was given to UFF. But around five years ago Tvind started a new company called UFF Sweden, and has applied for money every year since under the new company name. SIDA, through a local agency, has given small amounts to two projects since. [SIDA sources, January 2000]
Other reports
Report on UFF by Föreningen Rädda Individen (FRI)
(The Organisation in Defence of The Individual - Swedish anti-cult
organisation)
Includes comments on the Valdelin Report
Föreningen Rädda Individen (FRI)
Svandammsvägen 10
126 34 Hagersten
Sweden
Tel/Fax 08-709 00 77
Website: http://home.swipnet.se/FRI/
Sweden's leading cult expert, Karl-Erik
Nylund, attacks Tvind
Swedish social services are understood have included Tvind in a
brochure urging people to stay away from cults.
Companies
According to Dagens Nyheter, this is just a front organization.
Shops, clothes boxes, sorting centre, recruitment.
This company appears to have been restructured in the mid-1990s in order to qualify for grants from the Swedish government.
Dagens Nyheter, March 2002: The business is run by the association "UFF in Stockholm" - and in the
board of that organization the Teachers Group is still in the majority.
The board consists of the same persons as in the front organization,
with two exceptions: Kleveman and Dahne are not part of it.
This means that the Teachers Group has kept their right to make
decisions as regards the business itself
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