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Who's who in Tvind  -   1    2    3

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Other TG members and associates  -  past and present:

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Index

Helle Aaboe
Hans la Cour Anderson
Graham Bail
Johan Bendtsen
Tove Birke
Henning Bjornlund
Lone Bjerre
Ester Boere
Fred de Borst
Janice Bostic
Jocelyn Boudry
Steen Byrner
Steen Conradsen
Maria Darsbo
Mike Day
Borge Dethlefsen
Birgit Dinesen-Jensen
Wendy Dunnett-Dagg
Ulla Brit Envall
Allan Foighel
Lars Fribert
Annicken Groenvold
Bolette Gunst
Walther Juul Hansen
Marja Hedlund
Sten Hojstrom
Jonas Israel
Christian Jacobsen
Oyestvein Jacobsen
Jane Broen Jensen
Inger Lise Jepson
Finn Jrgensen
Lars Jrgensen
Poul Jrgensen
Steffen Jrgensen
Ann Jonsson
Josefin Jonsson
Kimo Karsikis
Marcus Kozok
Poul Lange
Birgitte Lerbech Larsen
Anne Lausen
Hans Jrgen Laustsen
Helle Lund
Pia Madvig
Anne-Marie Masden
Birgitte Hector Nielsen
Else Kragholm Nielsen
Eva Nielsen
Jytte Nielsen
Anne Sophie Pedersen
Jesper Pedersen
Nis Joan Raun
Birgitte Ring
Michael Rogers
Veren Schafer
Merete Utke Schioler
Birgit Soe
Torben Soe
Elise Srensen
Else Grue Srensen
Sren Srensen
Ulrike Stolsch
Ann Thompson
Ole Thomsen
Joop Trompert
Jan Utzon
Hanne Vesterborg
Rikke Viholm
Mattias Wallander
Henrik Wibrand
yvind Wistrom
Jesper Wohlert

 

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Helle Aaboe

Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, c1988.   One of the people who gave the nod to funding All Europe Satellite Television Ltd in 1988

 

Hans la Cour Andersen

Now left Tvind.   Prosecution witness.

 

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Graham Bail

Planet Aid UK (probably not a TG member)

 

Johan Bendtsen

U'SAgain, Chicago/Seattle.     Danish.    TG member for around 8 years.   Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications.   Supposedly 'contracted to U'SAgain' by Garson & Shaw, for $4,500 a month, according to correspondents, but in fact Operations Manager for Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and is currently in charge of Seattle.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bostic.    July 2003

 

Tove Birke

One of the founders of the Humanitarian Foundation.    Manager of Floresta Atlantica Ltda, which bought Floryl ranch from Shell before 1992.

 

Lone Bjerre

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987.

 

Henning Bjornlund

 

 

Adelaide, Australia.    Danish.   Alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate.      Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.

According to police 'one of the people behind' B&B Shipping, the Cayman-registered Tvind company that owned the Return of MArco Polo vessel used in the IFAS scam, to 1995.    Also a director of Distributors International (c1989), Talata (Guernsey) and Tropical Farming (Caymans).

Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia.   It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.

In 1995, the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet tracked Bjornlund down to his home in Adelaide where he reportedly admitted that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago."  Full article.

A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind.   See Tvind Alert Forum  (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)

 

Ester Boere - Principal, KNEC, South Africa (2002)

 

Fred de Borst

Head of product development at Tvind company in China, Trayton Furniture..   Principal (sole) shareholder of Dutch used clothes company ConMore bv.  In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Inger Lise Jepson.    (2002)

(Both 'living' at the same address as where the firm is listed: Keizersgracht 316)

 

Jocelyn Boudry

In charge, Humana Belgium (2004)   more

 

Janice Bostic

President, U'SAgain   Janice Marie Bostic has been with the TG for approximately 22 years.  Recruited as volunteer at Aka Pecha International College, Virginia, USA (now closed).  Has got a degree in social work from an American school.   Attended Tvind colleges in Denmark and worked in Miami.  Started U'SAgain in Seattle, 1999.   Now president of U'SAgain, based in Chicago covering Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland.    Believed to have a TG husband, Michael, a 'Tvind accountant', assigned outside the USA.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bendtsen.  Updated July 2003

 

Steen Byrner

Danish. Male. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind in the years 1987-92. Described as a 'financial director'. It is believed he was at one time president of BB Shipping in the Cayman Islands, associated with the One World Institute in Norway and company director and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property in St Lucia). In 2000 he was running a bookshop (or publisher?) in Denmark called "forlaget HansGDal", which also uses the name and Internet address 'One World'. Not known if he is still associated with the Teachers Group. 
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.  

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Steen Conradsen

Danish. Male. Was involved in several Tvind schools - Director Small School at Red House (1994), member of Council  Management Small School at Red House (1994), Director Red House Management (1998). Also he was a board member of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).

Conradsen, a well-known and influential TG member, described in the media how he's seen Tvind for many years: 'In the 70s we were the communist commune, training guerilla soldiers in the field. In the 80s were the cult, brainwashing people and in the 90s it is the economy of the Teachers Group that is being focused on.'
Basically Conradsen believes that society wants to eliminate Tvind. But it is a fight against wind mills, he insists. 'Many are against us, but also many are with us. We have a good school with a theory of education so good that people are still supporting us. We see that when social workers, municipalities, parents and all the other authorities still believe, that it is a good idea to send people to a Tvind-institution.'

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Maria Darsbo

Zimbabwe.    "Chairperson of the Federation for Associations
connected to the International HUMANA People to People Movement"

Mike Day

IICD Massachusetts (2003).  Mike Day writes:

"Mike Day, 38,  is a graduate of Manchester and Lancaster universities in the UK (in mathematics and operational research). He spent five years as an operational research scientist with the British railway.   He also graduated from DNS in Denmark in 2000. He has worked as a volunteer at Bustrup Efterskole (1993-5) , where he had a great time. Also at DIE Helsingor (1998-1999) and the teacher training college in Caxito, Angola from 1999-2001 (as a teacher and vice-principal). Since September 2001 he has been at IICD Massachusetts. He has been a member of the Teacher's Group since 1997.  If you have doubts or questions about IICD Massachusetts, the Teacher's Group or anything else associated with "Tvind" , feel free to contact Mike on mikeday68@hotmail.com., and you will get an honest and unbiased opinion."

 

Borge Dethlefsen

Atlanta.    Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.

 

Birgit Dinesen-Jensen

Danish.  Female.   Dinesen is a director of the Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland.    In 1999 she allegedly fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenya) together with Flemming Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax evasion in  relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading.      EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.    According to reports Dinesen drives an expensive recent BMW5 station wagon.   Resident at Maarn, Holland, at the same address as Mikala Gottlob and next door to Jytte Nielsen.      See The Weird World of Humana Holland by Han Gommeren

Wendy Dunnett-Dagg

Hope, Zambia

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Ulla Brit Envall

ADPP Clothes and Shoes Sales, Mozambique.    Swedish.   In Tvind system since early 80s.   Travelling Folk High School, Teacher, project leader Zambia, Mozambique 1994.

 

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Allan Foighel

Danish.  Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.   Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam).    Rooms with Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson.  Father is a well-known Danish academic.   July 2003

 

Lars Fribert

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987

 

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Annicken Groenvold

Norwegian, long-standing TG member.  Recently active in old clothes trading in Europe, Russia and probably the USA.   A correspondent writes:  "The 'Anneken' mentioned in the Tvind Alert information about Great Lakes [newly identified Tvind company in the USA] could be Annicken Groenvald, Norwegian and member of TG.  She oversaw the complete startup of the business in Russia.  Some branches are active still today in Garson and Shaw since EC Trading went bust."

 

Bolette Gunst

Board member, Humanitarian Foundation, c 1987-93

 

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Walther Juul Hansen

Accompanied Amdi Petersen on world trip, 1968-9

 

Marja Hedlund

Mozambique clothes sales, Beira.  Swedish.   In Tvind since 1975, on early Travelling High School journey to India.   Teacher, Travelling High School, Sweden (now closed).  UFF Sweden, 1980-87, UFF Finland 1987-1991, Beira 1996.

 

Sten Hojstrom

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987

 

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Christian Jacobsen

Board member, IFAS, from 1993

 

ystein Kvarv Jacobsen

Teachers Group 1991-2003, now left.  Oystein sent the following message to Tvind Alert:

Hi there,

Honestly what kind of web site is this? I was a member of the Teachers Group from 1991 - 2003. These were the best years of my life. Then I saw my name under "Who's who in Tvind?" on this site. I didn't know that I had such an influence. Fair enough, I don't mind but you could at least get the name right. It's ystein Kvarv Jacobsen or in english Oeystein Kvarv Jacobsen.

I would like to be very open about my time in TG, so anyone that have questions about anything, please send me a line or two. I used to work at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, IICD in Massachusetts from 2001-2003. Before that I worked in Denmark as a teacher and a headmaster/director for one of the schools there. I'm very concerned with misinformation in the media as I feel is getting more and more common, and sometimes the norm.

I had a very positive period in TG and I look back on great times of amazing results. Therefore I'd like to share these good experiences with everyone who is interested. This web-site is not known by being objective and fair, but honestly, I have nothing to loose. I just flipped through your pages and was depressed looking at all those with a negative experience, like Steen Thomson and other like-minded like him. All respect to the man, but honestly, if you are a part of something like the TG for twenty something years and then regret it afterwards like he does, I have problems understanding his way of thinking. Anyway, that was a side-track.

Feel free write to me at: hugoflove@yahoo.com

All the best to you guys...and remember; - be humble

:-) Jacob

 

 

Jane Broen Jensen

Zambia, responsible for finding funding partners (Partnership in Development).    Danish, b 1963.    Solidarity worker, Mozambique, 1985.   Project leader, "Escola dos Continuadores" and "Centro de Cultura", ADPP Mozambique.   Moved to DAPP in Zambia, 1989.    Now in charge off all Hope Projects and Hope Stations in Zambia.

Inger Lise ('Lisa') Jepson

Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.    Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain.    In Holland, listed as a director of ConMore bv, sales agent for Garson and Shaw.  In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Fred de Borst.  Previously may have worked at Floryl plantation, Brazil for some years     July 2003

 

Finn Jrgensen

Member, board, Humanitarian Foundation, c2001

 

Lars Jrgensen

Director of Humana UK, Resources Recycling Ltd (c1986), and All_Europe Satellite TV (c1989)

 

Poul Joergensen

U'SAgain, Atlanta.   A long-standing member of the Teachers Group (but not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark).    Responsible for U'SAgain in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, New York and - soon - Philadelphia.   Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw  July 2003

 

Steffen Jrgensen

Once director, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB, Malaysia, companies associated with sawmill scam.

 

Ann Jonsson

Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.    Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia).  Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain

Josefin Jonsson

Recently (1999) director of Planet Aid in California, and director of Planet Aid central America programmes.    In 1987, one of four founders of the IFAS, currently subject of legal action in Denmark.    We think she was just following orders.

 

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Kimo Karsikis

IICD Massachusetts (2003)

 

Marcus Kozok

Believed to have once been in charge of TG 'management trainees' in former eastern Europe and Russia, and former headmaster, Denmark.  Now reported to have left TG

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Poul Lange

Leader, TCE programme, Namibia.  Mentioned here.

 

Birgitte Lerbech Larsen

Occasional cashier of the Humanitarian Foundation, c1986-88.     Cited in Danish Police report.

 

Anne Lausen

Angola

 

Hans Joergen Laustsen

Director, All Europe Satellite TV, 1986, one of the companies cited in the Danish Police report for allegedly creaming off money supposed to be spent on 'research'.   Also a vice president, B&B Shipping, Cayman Islands, the company that 'leased' the Return of Marco Polo to the Tvind company concerned, IFAS>

HAs been resident in Florida, Holland and Moscow.   Also known to have been a manager, CCTT, and director, Unicorn Trans World Trading Ltd (Holland) 1995.

 

Helle Lund

Gaia, Chicago.   Helle Lund, one of the managers of Gaia in north America, was previously company secretary and director of Humana UK  -  the British used-clothes charity closed down in 1997-8 by the Charity Commission.

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Pia Madvig

Director, South China Sea Farming SB, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB in Malaysia - associated with alleged sawmill scam

 

Anne-Marie Masden

Principal, DRH Holsted (2002).  With Tvind appx 20 years.  Formerly (appx 1987) at Tvind cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia, 'run out of town'.  Son works for Tvind, China.

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Birgitte Hector Nielsen

Chair of IFAS, 1987-1993.  Body allegedly used to launder money from the Humanitarian Fund

 

Else Kragholm Nielsen

Senior Tvind operator.    Member of council of management, Red House School, UK, 1994.   In the 1980s, head of UFF in Helsingborg, Sweden.     In around 1988, one of those who gave the nod to Humanitarian Fund funding of the All Europe satellite Television Ltd.

 

Eva Nielsen

CEO, Gaia, Chicago.    With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years.   Currently head of Gaia, Chicago.   Aged about 55 (in April 02).  A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India.  Rents an apartment in downtown Chicago July 2003

 

Jytte Nielsen

Danish. Female. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group, who has been involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European countries including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK, Austria, Sweden and of course Denmark. In the mid-1990s her address was given as Brussels. She now has a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next to her live TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen is director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Jytte Nielsen has been a member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies. Learned about clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Now director of Humana Holland.
She has been involved with many controversial Tvind enterprises. She was a trustee of Humana UK in the 1980s-1990s, and one of those dismissed by the UK Charity Commission following investigations into its financial affairs in 1996. She has also held official positions in Humana France (secretary and treasurer) just before it was wound up following French government allegations of unpaid taxes. She was a member of the council and a director of the Small School at Red House, UK (1994), prior to the school's closure by the authorities. Nielsen is currently vice-president of Humana Austria, a director of Humana Sweden and according to herself also connected to Humana in Spain.  

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Anne Sophie Pedersen

Deputy chairperson of IFAS, 1987-1993

 

Jesper Pedersen

In charge, UFF Norway.    more

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Nis Joan Raun

Florida in 1980s-90s.   Then director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd

 

Birgitte Ring  

Danish. Female.  Member of board of IFAS 1987-1993

 

Michael Rogers

Geneva, Switzerland.   British-born Lawyer.  Probably not a member of the TG but a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust in Geneva.   According to a press statement by World Wrestling Entertainment, which is in dispute with Rogers, he was controversially involved in establishing Dar Al Maal Al Islam, an Islamic charity.   As well as being a Gaia signatory, Rogers provided Gaia with an accommodation address and forwarded correspondence to Tvind in Amsterdam.

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Veren Schafer

Zambia - wholesale clothing.   German.  Trained at Travelling Folk High School in Norway, volunteer fundraiser in South Africa and New Delhi.  Zambia since November 1999.

 

Merete Utke Schioler

Bunnik, Holland, late 90s.  Director, Planet Aid UK (2000).

 

Torben Soe

Green World Recycling, UK

 

Birgit Soe

Planet Aid UK.  Partner of Torben Soe.

 

Elise Srensen

Child Aid, Zambia

 

Else Grue Srensen

Leader, TCE programme, Namibia.  More about Else Grue Soerensen and the TCE programme here.

 

Henrik Srensen

'Leader' of the All Europe Satellite TV studio, 1988

 

Sren Srensen

Manager, Fazenda jatoba, brazil, since 1000.     Previously, manager of TG-banana plantations in Belize.  Known as 'The Farmer'.

 

Ulrike Stolsch

IICD Massachusetts (2003)

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Ole Thomsen

Malawi.   DAPP Clothes and Shoes, Blantyre.    Travelling High School, 1991, then Angola.  DAPP Malawi since 1995.

Ann Thompson

British.   Runs clothes operation for DAPP, Malawi (2003) .  more

Joop Trompert

Humana, Holland.   Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading.  Currently with Human Holland at Bunnik.  Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland.  (Sept 2003)

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Jan Utzon

Architect, member of famous Danish architectural dynasty - a relative designed Sydney Opera House.  Sympathiser, but probably not a TG member.  Has designed many Tvind buildings including the Zimbabwe headquarters, the new IICD Michigan college, the Trayton furniture factory in China, DNS Chimoio (Mozambique) and DNS Cabinda

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Hanne Vesterborg

Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, 1988.  One of the people who gave the nod to All Europe Satellite television Ltd in 1988.  We assume she was just following orders.

 

Rikke Viholm

Danish, female.   Recently ADPP country representative in Angola, where she is well connected with a place on the board of the state oil company, Sonangol - which plays a significant pat in funding ADPP there.

Board member IFAS, 1987-1993.  Also a founder of the Foundation. (Danish Police report)

 

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Mattias Wallander

CEO, U'SAgain.    Swedish.   TG member for about 12 years (already has his 'TG watch').    Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications.  Joined U'SAgain approximately 2000, and currently CEO, based in Chicago.  Covers Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Became US citizen in appx 2002.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Bendtsen and Bostic.  Updated July 2003

 

Henrik Wibrand

Captain, Return of Marco Polo, c1987-8

 

yvind Wistrom

Norwegian, male.      Long history with TG (1978-1992) but may now have left, as he appears to have cooperated with police.

Involved with the IFAS operation (later told police it was run by Amdi Petersen.)   Prepared fund application to IFAS for All Europe Satellite Television Ltd - Voice of the Third World - with sailing studio on board ship, 1988..

Signed for Faelleseje in Talata deal, 1988.   Director of All Europe Satellite TV, c1989-1992.     Headmaster, One World Institute, Norway, c1991.  Member of Council of Management, Red House School, UK, 1994.

 

Jesper Wohlert

Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'. President of Humana in Spain and Portugal. Director of Planet Aid UK, former board member of Humana Holland, Humana Germany. Trained at Tvind. Previously associated with: Humana UK (director), Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), Small School at Red House (member of council), Humana France (president and secretary) Humana Gent, Belgium (manager). Calls himself a project leader on the website humana.org, one of the international websites of Tvind. He disappeared out of the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers Group member Erik-Dorph Jensen, shortly after publications in the Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.

 

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Birgit Dinesen-Jensen

Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland. Dinesen is director of the Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) together with Flemming Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax evasion in  relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading in Amsterdam. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.

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Mikala Gottlob

Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland in the same house as Birgit Dinesen. Gottlob was connected as a chairman to Humana UK and to Winestead Hall School in Hull, UK. Both organisations were closed down  by the British Charity Commission. Current whereabouts unknown.   

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Erik-Dorph Jensen

Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, same adress as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland, but left shortly after several publications about Humana in the Dutch press. Has also been associated with Humana Spain and Humana France (closed down in 1996 after financial irregularities).  

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Peter Kjaer

Appears to be resident in Fiji.  Was a teacher at DNS (The Necessary Teacher Training College) in 1980-81.   One correspondent recalls him being sent to try to persuade her to return to Tvind after she left DNS in the mid-1980s. "I found him waiting on the stairs when I got home from work one day.... A fairly charming, pleasant fellow."   Was a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust in Switzerland in 1998.

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Lilian Ekbom

Also resident in Fiji, we think.  What is she doing there for Tvind?   With Peter Kjaer, was a Teacher at DNS in around 1980-81 and more recently became a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust, giving her address as Fiji.    

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The following are also believed to be influential TG members

 

Mikael Norling

 

Ole Toft Anderson   In charge of a Tvind-owned banana plantation, la Hacienda Italia, Ecuador.

Sven Petersen - in South Africa

 

Flemming Gustaffson  
Danish. Male. Described as a 'trade manager', currently resident in Amsterdam, Holland. Currently involved with Tvind's clothes trading company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. Among the Anglo-Dutch group of Tvind companies he is known to have been associated with: Customlong Agencies (a UK furniture company - shareholder) which was later renamed Agence Notre Dame (a director); and a Dutch subsidiary Procurement White Hall Enterprises (unspecified trading - director). He had also been director of Textile Transformation EC Trading (used clothes, Holland) before it went bankrupt in 2000 owing 1.4 million. He is believed to be associated with Humana in Holland. 
He is also thought to have been involved with other companies in Hong Kong. Dutch tax-police was trying to get hold of Gustaffson in 1998-1999 because the Hungarian authorities suspected him of tax-evasion in relation to Textile Transformation EC Trading. According to a former employee of EC Trading Gustaffson then fled head over heels from Boedapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) with TG-member Birgit Dinesen-Jensen with whom he now runs the Tvind-textile company ConMore BV in Holland. ConMore BV is trading with Humana Holland and the other Humana offices in Europe.

 

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Other TG members and associates  -  past and present:

Helle Aaboe
Hans la Cour Anderson
Graham Bail
Johan Bendtsen
Tove Birke
Henning Bjornlund
Lone Bjerre
Ester Boere
Fred de Borst
Janice Bostic
Jocelyn Boudry
Steen Byrner
Steen Conradsen
Maria Darsbo
Mike Day
Borge Dethlefsen
Birgit Dinesen-Jensen
Wendy Dunnett-Dagg
Ulla Brit Envall
Allan Foighel
Lars Fribert
Annicken Groenvold
Bolette Gunst
Walther Juul Hansen
Marja Hedlund
Sten Hojstrom
Jonas Israel
Christian Jacobsen
Oyestvein Jacobsen
Jane Broen Jensen
Inger Lise Jepson
Finn Jrgensen
Lars Jrgensen
Poul Jrgensen
Steffen Jrgensen
Ann Jonsson
Josefin Jonsson
Kimo Karsikis
Marcus Kozok
Poul Lange
Birgitte Lerbech Larsen
Anne Lausen
Hans Jrgen Laustsen
Helle Lund
Pia Madvig
Anne-Marie Masden
Birgitte Hector Nielsen
Else Kragholm Nielsen
Eva Nielsen
Jytte Nielsen
Anne Sophie Pedersen
Jesper Pedersen
Nis Joan Raun
Birgitte Ring
Michael Rogers
Veren Schafer
Merete Utke Schioler
Birgit Soe
Torben Soe
Elise Srensen
Else Grue Srensen
Sren Srensen
Ulrike Stolsch
Ann Thompson
Ole Thomsen
Joop Trompert
Jan Utzon
Hanne Vesterborg
Rikke Viholm
Mattias Wallander
Henrik Wibrand
yvind Wistrom
Jesper Wohlert

 

Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, c1988.   One of the people who gave the nod to funding All Europe Satellite Television Ltd in 1988

Hans la Cour Andersen

Now left Tvind.   Prosecution witness.

Graham Bail

Planet Aid UK (probably not a TG member)

U'SAgain, Chicago/Seattle.     Danish.    TG member for around 8 years.   Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications.   Supposedly 'contracted to U'SAgain' by Garson & Shaw, for $4,500 a month, according to correspondents, but in fact Operations Manager for Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and is currently in charge of Seattle.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bostic.    July 2003

One of the founders of the Humanitarian Foundation.    Manager of Floresta Atlantica Ltda, which bought Floryl ranch from Shell before 1992.

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987.

Henning Bjornlund

Adelaide, Australia.    Danish.   Alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate.      Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.

According to police 'one of the people behind' B&B Shipping, the Cayman-registered Tvind company that owned the Return of MArco Polo vessel used in the IFAS scam, to 1995.    Also a director of Distributors International (c1989), Talata (Guernsey) and Tropical Farming (Caymans).

Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia.   It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.

In 1995, the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet tracked Bjornlund down to his home in Adelaide where he reportedly admitted that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago."  Full article.

A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind.   See Tvind Alert Forum  (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)

Ester Boere - Principal, KNEC, South Africa (2002)

Head of product development at Tvind company in China, Trayton Furniture..   Principal (sole) shareholder of Dutch used clothes company ConMore bv.  In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Inger Lise Jepson.    (2002)

(Both 'living' at the same address as where the firm is listed: Keizersgracht 316)

In charge, Humana Belgium (2004)   more

President, U'SAgain   Janice Marie Bostic has been with the TG for approximately 22 years.  Recruited as volunteer at Aka Pecha International College, Virginia, USA (now closed).  Has got a degree in social work from an American school.   Attended Tvind colleges in Denmark and worked in Miami.  Started U'SAgain in Seattle, 1999.   Now president of U'SAgain, based in Chicago covering Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland.    Believed to have a TG husband, Michael, a 'Tvind accountant', assigned outside the USA.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bendtsen.  Updated July 2003

Steen Byrner

Danish. Male. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind in the years 1987-92. Described as a 'financial director'. It is believed he was at one time president of BB Shipping in the Cayman Islands, associated with the One World Institute in Norway and company director and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property in St Lucia). In 2000 he was running a bookshop (or publisher?) in Denmark called "forlaget HansGDal", which also uses the name and Internet address 'One World'. Not known if he is still associated with the Teachers Group. 
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.  

Steen Conradsen

Danish. Male. Was involved in several Tvind schools - Director Small School at Red House (1994), member of Council  Management Small School at Red House (1994), Director Red House Management (1998). Also he was a board member of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).

Conradsen, a well-known and influential TG member, described in the media how he's seen Tvind for many years: 'In the 70s we were the communist commune, training guerilla soldiers in the field. In the 80s were the cult, brainwashing people and in the 90s it is the economy of the Teachers Group that is being focused on.'
Basically Conradsen believes that society wants to eliminate Tvind. But it is a fight against wind mills, he insists. 'Many are against us, but also many are with us. We have a good school with a theory of education so good that people are still supporting us. We see that when social workers, municipalities, parents and all the other authorities still believe, that it is a good idea to send people to a Tvind-institution.'

Zimbabwe.    "Chairperson of the Federation for Associations
connected to the International HUMANA People to People Movement"

IICD Massachusetts (2003).  Mike Day writes:

Borge Dethlefsen

Atlanta.    Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.

Birgit Dinesen-Jensen

Danish.  Female.   Dinesen is a director of the Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland.    In 1999 she allegedly fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenya) together with Flemming Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax evasion in  relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading.      EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.    According to reports Dinesen drives an expensive recent BMW5 station wagon.   Resident at Maarn, Holland, at the same address as Mikala Gottlob and next door to Jytte Nielsen.      See The Weird World of Humana Holland by Han Gommeren

Wendy Dunnett-Dagg

Ulla Brit Envall

ADPP Clothes and Shoes Sales, Mozambique.    Swedish.   In Tvind system since early 80s.   Travelling Folk High School, Teacher, project leader Zambia, Mozambique 1994.

Danish.  Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.   Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam).    Rooms with Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson.  Father is a well-known Danish academic.   July 2003

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987

Annicken Groenvold

Norwegian, long-standing TG member.  Recently active in old clothes trading in Europe, Russia and probably the USA.   A correspondent writes:  "The 'Anneken' mentioned in the Tvind Alert information about Great Lakes [newly identified Tvind company in the USA] could be Annicken Groenvald, Norwegian and member of TG.  She oversaw the complete startup of the business in Russia.  Some branches are active still today in Garson and Shaw since EC Trading went bust."

Board member, Humanitarian Foundation, c 1987-93

Walther Juul Hansen

Accompanied Amdi Petersen on world trip, 1968-9

Mozambique clothes sales, Beira.  Swedish.   In Tvind since 1975, on early Travelling High School journey to India.   Teacher, Travelling High School, Sweden (now closed).  UFF Sweden, 1980-87, UFF Finland 1987-1991, Beira 1996.

One of four founders of IFAS, 1987

Christian Jacobsen

Board member, IFAS, from 1993

ystein Kvarv Jacobsen

Teachers Group 1991-2003, now left.  Oystein sent the following message to Tvind Alert:

Honestly what kind of web site is this? I was a member of the Teachers Group from 1991 - 2003. These were the best years of my life. Then I saw my name under "Who's who in Tvind?" on this site. I didn't know that I had such an influence. Fair enough, I don't mind but you could at least get the name right. It's ystein Kvarv Jacobsen or in english Oeystein Kvarv Jacobsen.

I would like to be very open about my time in TG, so anyone that have questions about anything, please send me a line or two. I used to work at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, IICD in Massachusetts from 2001-2003. Before that I worked in Denmark as a teacher and a headmaster/director for one of the schools there. I'm very concerned with misinformation in the media as I feel is getting more and more common, and sometimes the norm.

I had a very positive period in TG and I look back on great times of amazing results. Therefore I'd like to share these good experiences with everyone who is interested. This web-site is not known by being objective and fair, but honestly, I have nothing to loose. I just flipped through your pages and was depressed looking at all those with a negative experience, like Steen Thomson and other like-minded like him. All respect to the man, but honestly, if you are a part of something like the TG for twenty something years and then regret it afterwards like he does, I have problems understanding his way of thinking. Anyway, that was a side-track.

Feel free write to me at: hugoflove@yahoo.com

All the best to you guys...and remember; - be humble

Jane Broen Jensen

Zambia, responsible for finding funding partners (Partnership in Development).    Danish, b 1963.    Solidarity worker, Mozambique, 1985.   Project leader, "Escola dos Continuadores" and "Centro de Cultura", ADPP Mozambique.   Moved to DAPP in Zambia, 1989.    Now in charge off all Hope Projects and Hope Stations in Zambia.

Inger Lise ('Lisa') Jepson

Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.    Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain.    In Holland, listed as a director of ConMore bv, sales agent for Garson and Shaw.  In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Fred de Borst.  Previously may have worked at Floryl plantation, Brazil for some years     July 2003

Member, board, Humanitarian Foundation, c2001

Director of Humana UK, Resources Recycling Ltd (c1986), and All_Europe Satellite TV (c1989)

Poul Joergensen

U'SAgain, Atlanta.   A long-standing member of the Teachers Group (but not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark).    Responsible for U'SAgain in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, New York and - soon - Philadelphia.   Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw  July 2003

Steffen Jrgensen

Once director, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB, Malaysia, companies associated with sawmill scam.

Garson and Shaw, Atlanta.    Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia).  Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain

Josefin Jonsson

Recently (1999) director of Planet Aid in California, and director of Planet Aid central America programmes.    In 1987, one of four founders of the IFAS, currently subject of legal action in Denmark.    We think she was just following orders.

IICD Massachusetts (2003)

Believed to have once been in charge of TG 'management trainees' in former eastern Europe and Russia, and former headmaster, Denmark.  Now reported to have left TG

Leader, TCE programme, Namibia.  Mentioned here.

Birgitte Lerbech Larsen

Occasional cashier of the Humanitarian Foundation, c1986-88.     Cited in Danish Police report.

Hans Joergen Laustsen

Director, All Europe Satellite TV, 1986, one of the companies cited in the Danish Police report for allegedly creaming off money supposed to be spent on 'research'.   Also a vice president, B&B Shipping, Cayman Islands, the company that 'leased' the Return of Marco Polo to the Tvind company concerned, IFAS>

HAs been resident in Florida, Holland and Moscow.   Also known to have been a manager, CCTT, and director, Unicorn Trans World Trading Ltd (Holland) 1995.

Gaia, Chicago.   Helle Lund, one of the managers of Gaia in north America, was previously company secretary and director of Humana UK  -  the British used-clothes charity closed down in 1997-8 by the Charity Commission.

Director, South China Sea Farming SB, Sedimas SB and Nasib Daya SB in Malaysia - associated with alleged sawmill scam

Anne-Marie Masden

Principal, DRH Holsted (2002).  With Tvind appx 20 years.  Formerly (appx 1987) at Tvind cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia, 'run out of town'.  Son works for Tvind, China.

Birgitte Hector Nielsen

Chair of IFAS, 1987-1993.  Body allegedly used to launder money from the Humanitarian Fund

Else Kragholm Nielsen

Senior Tvind operator.    Member of council of management, Red House School, UK, 1994.   In the 1980s, head of UFF in Helsingborg, Sweden.     In around 1988, one of those who gave the nod to Humanitarian Fund funding of the All Europe satellite Television Ltd.

CEO, Gaia, Chicago.    With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years.   Currently head of Gaia, Chicago.   Aged about 55 (in April 02).  A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India.  Rents an apartment in downtown Chicago July 2003

Jytte Nielsen

Danish. Female. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group, who has been involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European countries including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK, Austria, Sweden and of course Denmark. In the mid-1990s her address was given as Brussels. She now has a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next to her live TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen is director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Jytte Nielsen has been a member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies. Learned about clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Now director of Humana Holland.
She has been involved with many controversial Tvind enterprises. She was a trustee of Humana UK in the 1980s-1990s, and one of those dismissed by the UK Charity Commission following investigations into its financial affairs in 1996. She has also held official positions in Humana France (secretary and treasurer) just before it was wound up following French government allegations of unpaid taxes. She was a member of the council and a director of the Small School at Red House, UK (1994), prior to the school's closure by the authorities. Nielsen is currently vice-president of Humana Austria, a director of Humana Sweden and according to herself also connected to Humana in Spain.  

Anne Sophie Pedersen

Deputy chairperson of IFAS, 1987-1993

Jesper Pedersen

In charge, UFF Norway.    more

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Florida in 1980s-90s.   Then director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd

Birgitte Ring  

Danish. Female.  Member of board of IFAS 1987-1993

Geneva, Switzerland.   British-born Lawyer.  Probably not a member of the TG but a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust in Geneva.   According to a press statement by World Wrestling Entertainment, which is in dispute with Rogers, he was controversially involved in establishing Dar Al Maal Al Islam, an Islamic charity.   As well as being a Gaia signatory, Rogers provided Gaia with an accommodation address and forwarded correspondence to Tvind in Amsterdam.

Zambia - wholesale clothing.   German.  Trained at Travelling Folk High School in Norway, volunteer fundraiser in South Africa and New Delhi.  Zambia since November 1999.

Merete Utke Schioler

Bunnik, Holland, late 90s.  Director, Planet Aid UK (2000).

Green World Recycling, UK

Planet Aid UK.  Partner of Torben Soe.

Child Aid, Zambia

Else Grue Srensen

Leader, TCE programme, Namibia.  More about Else Grue Soerensen and the TCE programme here.

'Leader' of the All Europe Satellite TV studio, 1988

Manager, Fazenda jatoba, brazil, since 1000.     Previously, manager of TG-banana plantations in Belize.  Known as 'The Farmer'.

IICD Massachusetts (2003)

Malawi.   DAPP Clothes and Shoes, Blantyre.    Travelling High School, 1991, then Angola.  DAPP Malawi since 1995.

British.   Runs clothes operation for DAPP, Malawi (2003) .  more

Humana, Holland.   Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading.  Currently with Human Holland at Bunnik.  Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland.  (Sept 2003)

Architect, member of famous Danish architectural dynasty - a relative designed Sydney Opera House.  Sympathiser, but probably not a TG member.  Has designed many Tvind buildings including the Zimbabwe headquarters, the new IICD Michigan college, the Trayton furniture factory in China, DNS Chimoio (Mozambique) and DNS Cabinda

Hanne Vesterborg

Associated with Humanitarian Foundation, 1988.  One of the people who gave the nod to All Europe Satellite television Ltd in 1988.  We assume she was just following orders.

Danish, female.   Recently ADPP country representative in Angola, where she is well connected with a place on the board of the state oil company, Sonangol - which plays a significant pat in funding ADPP there.

Board member IFAS, 1987-1993.  Also a founder of the Foundation. (Danish Police report)

Mattias Wallander

CEO, U'SAgain.    Swedish.   TG member for about 12 years (already has his 'TG watch').    Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications.  Joined U'SAgain approximately 2000, and currently CEO, based in Chicago.  Covers Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Became US citizen in appx 2002.  Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Bendtsen and Bostic.  Updated July 2003

Captain, Return of Marco Polo, c1987-8

Norwegian, male.      Long history with TG (1978-1992) but may now have left, as he appears to have cooperated with police.

Involved with the IFAS operation (later told police it was run by Amdi Petersen.)   Prepared fund application to IFAS for All Europe Satellite Television Ltd - Voice of the Third World - with sailing studio on board ship, 1988..

Signed for Faelleseje in Talata deal, 1988.   Director of All Europe Satellite TV, c1989-1992.     Headmaster, One World Institute, Norway, c1991.  Member of Council of Management, Red House School, UK, 1994.

Jesper Wohlert

Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'. President of Humana in Spain and Portugal. Director of Planet Aid UK, former board member of Humana Holland, Humana Germany. Trained at Tvind. Previously associated with: Humana UK (director), Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), Small School at Red House (member of council), Humana France (president and secretary) Humana Gent, Belgium (manager). Calls himself a project leader on the website humana.org, one of the international websites of Tvind. He disappeared out of the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers Group member Erik-Dorph Jensen, shortly after publications in the Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.

Birgit Dinesen-Jensen

Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland. Dinesen is director of the Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) together with Flemming Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax evasion in  relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC Trading in Amsterdam. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.

Mikala Gottlob

Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland in the same house as Birgit Dinesen. Gottlob was connected as a chairman to Humana UK and to Winestead Hall School in Hull, UK. Both organisations were closed down  by the British Charity Commission. Current whereabouts unknown.   

Erik-Dorph Jensen

Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, same adress as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland, but left shortly after several publications about Humana in the Dutch press. Has also been associated with Humana Spain and Humana France (closed down in 1996 after financial irregularities).  

Appears to be resident in Fiji.  Was a teacher at DNS (The Necessary Teacher Training College) in 1980-81.   One correspondent recalls him being sent to try to persuade her to return to Tvind after she left DNS in the mid-1980s. "I found him waiting on the stairs when I got home from work one day.... A fairly charming, pleasant fellow."   Was a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust in Switzerland in 1998.

Also resident in Fiji, we think.  What is she doing there for Tvind?   With Peter Kjaer, was a Teacher at DNS in around 1980-81 and more recently became a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust, giving her address as Fiji.    

The following are also believed to be influential TG members

Ole Toft Anderson   In charge of a Tvind-owned banana plantation, la Hacienda Italia, Ecuador.

Sven Petersen - in South Africa

Flemming Gustaffson  
Danish. Male. Described as a 'trade manager', currently resident in Amsterdam, Holland. Currently involved with Tvind's clothes trading company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. Among the Anglo-Dutch group of Tvind companies he is known to have been associated with: Customlong Agencies (a UK furniture company - shareholder) which was later renamed Agence Notre Dame (a director); and a Dutch subsidiary Procurement White Hall Enterprises (unspecified trading - director). He had also been director of Textile Transformation EC Trading (used clothes, Holland) before it went bankrupt in 2000 owing 1.4 million. He is believed to be associated with Humana in Holland. 
He is also thought to have been involved with other companies in Hong Kong. Dutch tax-police was trying to get hold of Gustaffson in 1998-1999 because the Hungarian authorities suspected him of tax-evasion in relation to Textile Transformation EC Trading. According to a former employee of EC Trading Gustaffson then fled head over heels from Boedapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) with TG-member Birgit Dinesen-Jensen with whom he now runs the Tvind-textile company ConMore BV in Holland. ConMore BV is trading with Humana Holland and the other Humana offices in Europe.

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