Tvind is not allowed to trade with itself

 

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Tvind is not allowed to trade with itself

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Berlingske Tidende, Denmark, 8th June

By  Michael Bjerre

The meshes around Humana's activities in Holland are seriously tightened.
Among other things, it will be forbidden to sell collected clothes to it's
own companies and in this way make big gains for the Teachers Group.

Tvind has not only to deal with court cases for economical fraud in Denmark and Belgium, but it also must stop the controversial model to sell used clothes to itself. The Dutch office for the approval of charities, Centraal Bureau Fondsenwerving (CBF), now requires full economical transparency for Humana Holland - called UFF in Denmark.

After a major revisional investigation of Humana Holland, the office has
just delivered it's conclusions, and if Tvind does not follow them, the
movement will risk to loose approval. This would, in practice, make it
impossible for Tvind to operate in Holland because, without the approval of the CBF, the municipalities will not allow the placement of the containers.

Now we want a clean table and full transparency of Humana Holland. They had a one year's time to make the modifications we have ordered them to do, says Jos Zwarties, the director of CBF, to Berlingske Sndag.

Systematic fraud

Especially, the economical structure of Tvind has come under fire. In the
first place, CBF had a critical eye on a sophisticated corporation model
which last year was exposed by Berlingske Sndag and which enabled Tvind at least during ten years to deceive the donors of clothes in whole Europe. Ten thousands of used winter clothes which were collected by UFF/Humana in Holland, Denmark and other European countries, were resold to other Tvind orgaisations in Holland.

These organisation resold the clothes to Tvind organisations in British tax
havens which resold the clothes to merchants in Eastern Europe.

Have gained milllions

The result of the whole story was that the Teacher's Group, led by founder Mogens Amdi Petersen, could set aside large amounts of millions for themselves instead of passing them to the poorest in the world.

We have told Humana that it cannot be accepted to resell the clothes to
organisations in which the Teacher's Group is involved. Because this they
did. A humanitarian organisation must behave properly and have a proper
image, Jos Zwartjes said.

Jos Zwartjes underlines that CBF has only the possibility to forbid Humana in Holland - and not Humana/UFF in other countries - to resell clothes to Tvinds own organisations.

In view of these facts, the member of Folketing (the Danish parliament, the translator) Ejvind Vesselbo (V = liberal) will raise the question if Tvind operates politically on Danish soil. Even if UFF voluntarily started last year to pay added value tax and abandoned it's status as a charity -
reportedly under the pressure of strong considerastion of Customs & Tax to withdraw their status compulsorily.

At the moment, UFF is not recognized as a charity, but it operates in
public sphere. It is important, that humanitarian work is based on
trustworthyness, says Ejvind Vesselbo.

http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=329726/

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Berlingske Tidende, Denmark, 8th June

By  Michael Bjerre

The meshes around Humana's activities in Holland are seriously tightened.
Among other things, it will be forbidden to sell collected clothes to it's
own companies and in this way make big gains for the Teachers Group.

Tvind has not only to deal with court cases for economical fraud in Denmark and Belgium, but it also must stop the controversial model to sell used clothes to itself. The Dutch office for the approval of charities, Centraal Bureau Fondsenwerving (CBF), now requires full economical transparency for Humana Holland - called UFF in Denmark.

After a major revisional investigation of Humana Holland, the office has
just delivered it's conclusions, and if Tvind does not follow them, the
movement will risk to loose approval. This would, in practice, make it
impossible for Tvind to operate in Holland because, without the approval of the CBF, the municipalities will not allow the placement of the containers.

Now we want a clean table and full transparency of Humana Holland. They had a one year's time to make the modifications we have ordered them to do, says Jos Zwarties, the director of CBF, to Berlingske Sndag.

Systematic fraud

Especially, the economical structure of Tvind has come under fire. In the
first place, CBF had a critical eye on a sophisticated corporation model
which last year was exposed by Berlingske Sndag and which enabled Tvind at least during ten years to deceive the donors of clothes in whole Europe. Ten thousands of used winter clothes which were collected by UFF/Humana in Holland, Denmark and other European countries, were resold to other Tvind orgaisations in Holland.

These organisation resold the clothes to Tvind organisations in British tax
havens which resold the clothes to merchants in Eastern Europe.

Have gained milllions

The result of the whole story was that the Teacher's Group, led by founder Mogens Amdi Petersen, could set aside large amounts of millions for themselves instead of passing them to the poorest in the world.

We have told Humana that it cannot be accepted to resell the clothes to
organisations in which the Teacher's Group is involved. Because this they
did. A humanitarian organisation must behave properly and have a proper
image, Jos Zwartjes said.

Jos Zwartjes underlines that CBF has only the possibility to forbid Humana in Holland - and not Humana/UFF in other countries - to resell clothes to Tvinds own organisations.

In view of these facts, the member of Folketing (the Danish parliament, the translator) Ejvind Vesselbo (V = liberal) will raise the question if Tvind operates politically on Danish soil. Even if UFF voluntarily started last year to pay added value tax and abandoned it's status as a charity -
reportedly under the pressure of strong considerastion of Customs & Tax to withdraw their status compulsorily.

At the moment, UFF is not recognized as a charity, but it operates in
public sphere. It is important, that humanitarian work is based on
trustworthyness, says Ejvind Vesselbo.

http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=329726/

 

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