UFF fraud

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden, March 20, 2002:

By Juan Flores and Nuri Kino

UFF //Humana// in Sweden sends money to the Tvind empire's bank. Today
Dagens Nyheter is able to publish a document showing that UFF transfers
great amounts of its charity funds to an organization suspected of
implication in economic crime.

Yesterday Dagens Nyheter could inform that UFF in Sweden loses its
90-account //authorized fundraising account// after having mismanaged
its finances.

Since the arrest of Tvind leader Amdi Mogens Petersen the Danish police
have intensified their actions against the Danish sect the Teachers
Group, constituting the core of the Tvind movement.

Danish authorities, while accusing Petersen of tax evasion crime
amounting to many million Danish kroner, have frozen the transferences
from one of the fonds owned by the Teachers Group, the Foundation, to an
organization tied to Humana People to People. It is called the
Federation.

According to one of Dagens Nyheter's sources with insight into the
operation of Humana People to People, the Federation is nothing less
than the bank of the Tvind empire, to a large extent used to provide
capital for plantations, furniture factories and other commercial
operations run by the Teachers Group from tax havens all over the world.

The transference published by Dagens Nyheter is from October 1998 and
shows that about 66,000 Swedish kronor was transferred that month. From
the notes made on the document it is possible to conclude that it's a
question of a monthly transference. At the same time as Swedish UFF has
mismanaged its finances and incurred over 130 records for non-payment of
debt - unpaid bills and taxes amounting to 4.2 million Swedish kroner -
it might, in other words, have payed huge amounts to the Federation.

- All Humana organizations in the world make monthly payments to the
Federation and other Tvind organizations, another of Dagens Nyheter's
sources says.

It was when the Teachers Group tried to transfer more than 13 million
Danish kroner, described as a loan, to the Federation that the Danish
authorities intervened.

- So far we have turned down Tvind's application and demanded to get
more information, says Ole Lndal, director of the the Danish Erhevervs-
og Selskabsstyrelse, a Government institution which inspects and audits
associations.

For example, the authorities intend to make sure that there isn't a case
of members of the Teachers Group representing both the borrowers and the lenders.

According to the Teachers Group the purpose of the money is support of
the organizations small-scale projects in Africa. However, drop-out
ex-members of the sect tell Dagens Nyheter that this is just an excuse
for getting money out of Denmark while it is still possible.

In connection with Dagens Nyheter's exposure of Swedish UFF's link to
the Teachers Group, made in articles late December 2001, the newspaper
also published documents showing that UFF transfers money to the Net Up
organization, registered at a known Tvind address. Up until last autumn
this was also Mogens Amdi Petersen's Danish address.

Last Tuesday Tvind leader Amdi Mogens Petersen was once again refused
bail in the U.S.  Petersen, who after having been hiding for 20 years
was revealed to be living a life of luxury on Fisher Island on the coast
of Florida, engaged top-notch defense lawyer Robert Shapiro when
arrested about a month ago.

Dagens Nyheter has not managed to reach the UFF chairman Trond Narvestad
to get his comment to the situation.