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"Humana - People to People" Association under criminal investigationStrong evidences of many international crimes such as fraud and other economical crimes

 

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* Protest: Do not buy clothes in HUMANA stores, do not give money or do volunteer work to HUMANA *

 

 

Humana is a Tvind used-clothes trading enterprise, part of an $860m family of enterprises controlled by the Tvind Teachers Group. It is one of several Tvind-controlled used clothes charities in Europe. The Teachers Group also controls commercial clothes trading concerns connected to a network of Tvind-controlled, tax-efficient offshore companies. This network of offshore companies is the subject of the current fraud trial. Humana was closed down in Britain in 1997 following an official fraud investigation and in France after an investigation by tax authorities.

 

More detailed history about HUMANA / Tvind:

 

The original volunteering and used clothes charity set up in Europe by the Teachers Group in 1977 as Tvind expanded from an alternative school to a global business. For years Humana People-to-People was based in Denmark. In the late 1990s its world headquarters was moved to Zimbabwe, where its grand headquarters building was opened by Amdi Petersen's friend the Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe. Humana has placed tens of thousands of roadside used-clothes bins in almost every European country, and also has its own shops. We believe most of the clothes collected by Humana in Europe are sold on to Tvind commercial companies such as Garson & Shaw, U'SAgain, Holland House and ConMore BV, ending up in second hand markets in Russia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

 

The profits supposedly support Humana People-to-People volunteer aid projects abroad, but the financial links are far from clear. Investigations into other TG used clothes enterprises have sugested very little money is spent on charity.

 

In January 1998, after an investigation, the British Charity Commission closed down Humana UK alleging serious financial misconduct. Official papers on this affair have never been made public. Humana effectively reopened as Planet Aid and Green World Recycling in the UK in the same year. Humana France was closed in the mid-1990s after the French government classified it as a cult and profit-making concern, not a charity. Humana has never reopened in France. In Holland, Humana has been given a warning by charity regulators because of its failure to comply with financial standards. In Scandinavia Humana is known as UFF, and in North America as Planet Aid or Gaia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leader of "Humana - People to People" and Tvindis acused of several crimes, such as fraud, money laundering and breach of trust.

 

 

Article written by the BBC - Investigation by BBC and The Guardian

 

Ten years ago the Guardian first raised doubts about the Danish organisation behind a chain of used-clothes charity shops. Now Mogens Amdi Petersen, the mysterious, Svengali-like figure behind the organisation is to stand trial in a £15m fraud case. Michael Durham reports (...)

 

Peterson, the overall leader of Humana People-to-People, one of the strangest and largest international humanitarian non-governmental organisations in the world, also known in Scandinavia as Tvind. The hunt for him started in earnest 10 years ago, in 1993, when the Guardian published a two-page special investigation, headlined Alarm Bells Ring over Education Group. The story told of accounts by British college-leavers who had become involved with a strange, cult-like organisation with its own training academies in Scandinavia, and a network of British used-clothes charity shops whose accounts did not seem to add up. (...)

 

Petersen and his girlfriend, Kirsten Larsen, were secretly moving into two $6m (£3.6m) luxury apartments in Miami, bought through a nominee company, and taking possession of the world's biggest glass-fibre ocean-going luxury yacht, the Butterfly McQueen. While accountants in Britain, Denmark, Norway and Holland scratched their heads over Humana People-to-People's accounts, Petersen was - or so it is alleged - secretly building up a multinational business, flitting about the world using charitable money creamed off through offshore accounts. (...)

 

Then there are the "cult" allegations. Petersen is supposed to have created an elite society of highly motivated young people, prepared to give up ordinary life and follow The Leader; known as the Teachers Group, it was one of the foundations of his power. Petersen has denied that the Teachers Group exists. None of this has so far cut much ice with the authorities: Petersen, Larsen and six others are now arraigned before a special court in Aarhus, accused of fraud, money laundering and breach of trust, to the value of £15m. (...)

 

Petersen seems to have gathered around 40 disciples and then set about creating first a school system, then an international relief organisation, and finally the many-tentacled Humana People-to-People NGO, operating under a baffling variety of names and spheres of interest. Used-clothes recycling schemes began in the 70s, more training colleges were opened in the 80s and the organisation expanded dramatically in the US under the name Planet Aid. (...)

 

According to Petersen and Larsen, they severed all links with the organisation and retired to live as private citizens abroad. The police, however, contend that for the next 22 years, the pair were secretly running the show, chairing meetings, directing staff and making investment decisions, all the time laundering charity money to build a multinational empire and buy themselves expensive properties, such as the Miami apartments, and beachside villas in the Caymans. (...)

 

Those who knew of the money transfers and purchases insist they were made legitimately by the Teachers Group and not by Petersen. But two important individuals did eventually come forward to tell their side of the story. Steen Thomsen, a Danish schoolmaster who ran a Tvind school in Britain until 1998, denounced Petersen as a fraud the same year and sent a report to the Danish authorities, claiming Petersen was running a cult, not a charity, from which he was personally benefiting. At the same time another former high-ranking member of the Teachers Group, Hans la Cour, wrote a book in which he described 18 years "inside" Tvind, during which time he alleged he was asked to run non-existent "environmental projects", and then launder the proceeds. While La Cour was bobbing about the south Atlantic on a ship called the Marco Polo inventing plausible "surveys", the money was used to buy a $9m fruit farm in the Brazilian rainforest from Shell. La Cour is likely to be a key prosecution witness.

 

Two years ago Danish police, tax officials and the security services raided seven Tvind addresses, including 13 Plagborgvej, and removed computers, from which they eventually extracted about three million pages of encrypted documents - enough, they say, to build a case. An international arrest warrant was issued for Petersen, and in February 2002 he and Larsen were arrested in transit at Los Angeles International Airport. He has since been extradited to Denmark.

 

Petersen, for his part, denies everything. Many people, however, have been trying to break the wall of silence, including Frede Farmand, who studied 10,000 pages of confidential Tvind documents for his book about Petersen, The Master from Tvind. He compares Petersen to a millenarian cult leader akin to a religious messiah, and among the claims made in his book - and backed up by documents - is that Petersen's last project was to sail away in the Butterfly McQueen with hand-picked members of the Teachers Group to a sun-kissed retirement in the island of Fiji, at a specially constructed jungle paradise. (...)

Tvind (HUMANA People to People) also continues to advertise regularly and widely for "volunteers" in British newspapers. And what of the "training college" in East Yorkshire, where young people regularly sign up for development studies (and often depart in haste soon afterwards, complaining they have been asked to beg on the streets)? Tvind again. The question is, were all these part of Petersen's master plan? And should we take their assurances that they are "nothing to do with Amdi Petersen" so lightly?

 

But perhaps most disturbing of all is the ease with which international "good causes" can spirit money from one country to another without proper restraint - as Petersen is alleged to have done to feather his own nest. Five years ago, Petersen's main UK charity, Humana UK, was closed down on charity commission advice because of financial irregularities.

Source / More information:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,973358,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Humana People to People" is controlled by another organization called TVIND

 

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Where is Tvind? Tvind is everywhere.

 

From Angola to Zimbabwe, via plenty of other countries in between, Tvind has a presence, either collecting money, stashing it away, recruiting 'Development Instructors', farming, trading or manufacturing. In Europe, Tvind runs schools, colleges and teacher training colleges as well as UFF and Humana shops and clothes recycling banks, all of which earn it a small fortune. Most schools are in Denmark, but there is a 'hotel' in the Norwegian Alps and a college in Britain - plus many shops.

Development Instructors come from all over the world - Europe, the United States, even Russia, China and Japan. Some 'train' in Denmark, others in Norway or the UK. All these volunteers pay money in advance for their 'training', and are required to spend weeks raising yet more money. A similar pattern has been established in the United States, where Tvind's main outposts are the 'Institute of International Co-operation and Development' (IICD) in Massachusetts and Michigan, Campus California, Planet Aid, Gaia and U'SAgain (all over the place).

Planet Aid is the US version of Humana or UFF, collecting and trading in old clothes. (It also collects straight cash) It began in the state of Massachusetts in 1997 and has since expanded into at least 16 states. Planet Aid has also set up shop in Canada, with those familiar shops and recycling bins in Toronto. Gaia is big in Chicago. But there is more to Tvind in the US than publicly acknowledged. In Miami, Florida, Tvind operated a large beachside administrative block, two $3m luxury apartments and a seagoing yacht, which you did not read about in the brochures.This is believed to have been the headquarters of a significant new south American operation and a bolt hole for Amdi Petersen. Since Petersen's arrest the properties and yacht have been put up for sale; many of the south American properties remain. In developing countries, like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique, Tvind is a 'development charity', running 'aid projects' where the money raised in Europe and the United States is supposedly spent. It has recently begun to expand into Central America, India and Borneo.

Most of the projects are called by the DAPP, ADPP or Humana People-to-People names. Some are bush schools, training colleges, agricultural schemes or projects with names like 'Child Aid' and 'Children's Town', and there is also a 'Hope' Aids charity. But behind the scenes - and you don't read about this on the web sites - Tvind also owns thousands of acres of plantations and farms in Third World countries where crops are commercially grown and profitably sold on world markets. Tvind is the landlord and employer as well as the 'aid giver', and has sometimes been accused of 'neo-colonialism'.

In Zimbabwe, Tvind has built a new world headquarters which is so big that Mogens Amdi Petersen is once said to have boasted 'you could see it from the moon.'

There are other plantations, too, in places like St Lucia and Brazil, which have nothing to do with 'development' and do not feature in the brochures. The best guess is that they just make a lot of money. It is said to have a clothes factory in Morocco, and owns a number of boats. It has a computer and furniture companies in China and India. Most recently, it has begun trading in timber across the world.

Tvind has been doing so well lately that it is reported to have set up - in one form or another - in a host of new countries. With the collapse of communism, it has found new trading outlets for old clothes in the former Eastern Europe and is attracting recruits from Poland, Romania, Czech, Slovakia and Slovenia. It has also been spotted or set up shop in such diverse countries as Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, Portugal and Fiji, wheeling and dealing - buying plantations, collecting old clothes, trading, and making new recruits - but mostly raising money.

With all that money washing about, Tvind has got to put it somewhere. So it has companies and offshore bank accounts in all kinds of places, many of them tax havens such as Guernsey, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar and the Dutch Antilles. Perhaps it is no coincidence that some of its most desirable and unadvertised properties have been in some of the sunniest parts of the world - such as the Cayman Islands, where it was reliably reported in the late 1980s to have a beachside villa. As far as we know, it's still there.

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