Tag: Tvind

Among today’s religion news briefs: a Canadian community tries to keep Scientology’s Narconon quacks from establishing a ‘drug rehab’ center.

A judge rules that a Jehovah’s Witness can be given blood if necessary.

Cult expert Steve Hassan talks with a representative of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, and with a survivor.

And read this before you donate clothes to Planet Aid.

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.

A ‘charity’ connected to a Danish cult harms local community charities.

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

Still eluding Danish authorities, Tvind Humanitarian Fund founder Mogens Amdi Petersen was spotted in Singapore this past week by a Danish teacher.

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.

A district court has found Mogens Amdi Petersen innocent of embezzling funds from the humanitarian organisation he founded Mogens Amdi Petersen, founder of the left-wing Tvind humanitarian organisation, has been acquitted of tax evasion and embezzlement by a district court in Ringkøbing. Petersen, 67, and seven other members of the organisation’s leadership had been under investigation since 2000. At that time a former teacher at one of its schools alleged the group was misusing the organisation’s tax-exempt status to funnel money into their own pockets. Petersen, who disappeared from Denmark in 1979, was found living a life of luxury in