The fugitive leader - Amdi Petersen This is the man hunted by police forces around the world, and wanted by Danish prosecutors to answer charges of fraud and financial crime in connection with Humana People-to-People and other development aid charities. After a gap of six years, legal proceedings will resume in Denmark on 6th May 2013 (probably in his absence). Amdi Petersen, born 1939, is the supreme leader of the Tvind Teachers Group, a body that describes itself as ‘humanitarian’ initiative to aid poverty in the Third World. He and colleagues stand accused of cheating on charitable commitments, defrauding hundreds of their own supporters, and evading tax through money laundering. The Teachers Group controls scores of charities and companies connected with Third World development, including Planet Aid, USAgain, Humana People-to-People, The Gaia Movement trust, and IICD schools. Petersen has been missing since 2006, when he and four colleagues fled Denmark to avoid criminal proceedings. Our investigations suggest Petersen is today living in a well-protected hideout in Zimbabwe, under the ultimate protection of President Mugabe, but may travel frequently to similar ‘safe’ locations in Mexico, Brazil and Belize. As befits a fugitive of 30 years, Petersen is likely to use a false name and papers when travelling, and according to some sources may even travel on a diplomatic passport issued by the Mugabe regime. Petersen initially trained as a secondary schoolteacher, but left in 1965 to follow a remarkable career as a counter-establishment activist. He started a highly-regarded alternative schools movement, the Tvind Schools Co-operative, and invented a unique philosophy, ‘Solidary Humanism’. In 1977 he founded The Tvind Teachers Group as an international co-operative, with an idealistic programme of shared property, shared work and a ‘common economy’. Two years later, Petersen vanished from the face of the Earth and was not seen again until 2002, when he was arrested by the FBI and charged with financial crimes. We have established that during those 23 ‘missing years’, Petersen was living in secret luxury hideaways, including a villa in the Cayman Islands and a lavish €7 million apartment on Fisher Island, a high-security ‘millionaire’s retreat’ off Miami. From these luxury hideaways, he directed the transformation of the Teachers Group into the covert business empire that spans the world today.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:41:28 +0000
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