Category: Tvind

Poul Jorgensen, one of the leading members of the Tvind humanitarian group, was found guilty of fraud on Tuesday by the Eastern High Court.

Jorgensen was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for being part of a comprehensive fraud operation that involved the establishment of a humanitarian foundation where money taken in was channelled to the organisation’s private businesses and never declared for tax purposes.

George Kwon thought he was doing his part to help less fortunate children in Africa when he agreed to let a nonprofit organization called Campus California TG place a clothing-collection box on his business property. But questions abound about the validity of Campus California TG (Teachers Group), which says it collected 3.2million pounds of donated clothing — worth about $800,000 — from 300 boxes last year.

Do you donate to Planet Aid? You may be surprized to learn where your donations end up.

In 2003, The Guardian newspaper described the founder of the cult-like organisation, Mogens Amdi Pedersen of Denmark, as a kind of hippie guru, a revolutionary firebrand who preached a Maoist-inspired gospel of social renewal.

What Gaia doesn’t advertise is that the used clothes also raise money for a vast, international used clothing empire whose finances are so inscrutable, several European governments have lost confidence in charitable claims of this network — known as Tvind.

Police are again looking for the leaders of the Tvind Humanitarian Fund. They fear the group – which is facing a new embezzlement trial – may have fled the country.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark A local court on Thursday convicted the financial controller of several humanitarian organizations in a major Danish fraud and embezzlement case, but acquitted seven other suspects, including the alleged ringleader. Sten Byrner was given a one-year suspended sentence in a case allegedly involving the embezzlement of 56 million kroner (€7.5 million; US$9.6 million) and tax fraud amounting to 52 million kroner (€7 million; US$9 million) over 14 years. Prosecutor Poul Gade had argued the fraud was orchestrated by Mogens Amdi Petersen, the founder of Tvind, a private Danish foundation he created in 1970 and known worldwide as Humana