The Steen Testimony

 

 

 

 

 

 

The FBI file on Tvind 2001

 

 

One document between the legal attaché in Copenhagen and the FBI Investigative Service in Miami, where Petersen had been living

states, "...TVIND derives income from the creation of Developmental Aid Organizations. Money is raised by the collection of used clothes. The clothes are recycled and sold in third world Countries. The proceeds are sent to Charitable trust funds established in Off Shore tax havens. A number of these groups are operating in the United States. They include: UFF, Development Aid from People to People, Humana People to People, Institute of International Cooperation and Development, and Planet Aid."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Public Prosecuter v Mogens Amdi Petersen

 

 

Chief Constable in Holstebro
The Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime, Denmark

 

As presented to extradition proceedings in the USA, 2002. Mogens Amdi Petersen was extradited from USA to Denmark in 2002. The trial of Petersen and seven others began in Aarhus, Denmark, in March 2003, and a verdict will be published on 31st August 2006.

Executive summary: Police claim that Tvind ‘humanitarian' and ‘environmental' projects in 55 countries are covertly linked to a network of brass-plate companies, tax-free trusts and offshore companies, through which money is laundered to the Teachers Group ‘treasury'.  They allege the system is covertly controlled by Amdi Petersen, Kirsten Larsen and a handful of senior members of the Teachers Group who constitute an economic ‘inner circle.'   The money has been used for property and investments unrelated to charitable work...read more