Johan Derksen is getting an increasingly bad feeling about Khalid Kasem. The Today Inside star also thinks it is not entirely right that the presenter is secretly active as a pawnbroker. “Dark.”
It is extremely intense for Khalid Kasem: in one fell swoop he no longer has a job, now that he has been linked to all kinds of dubious affairs for the second time. “It is a drama for Khalid, because his career as a lawyer is coming to an end and also as a presenter,” says Johan Derksen at the table. Today Inside.
Hate campaign
René van der Gijp notes that Khalid is still very young to end up in the trash. Own fault, says Johan. “He cannot blame someone else, because taking money like that is actually accepting black money as a lawyer.”
According to Wilfred Genee, it seems as if someone is actively trying to destroy Khalid. “People also suspect that he is wanted, also that story with all those buildings and so on. Like someone is running some kind of hate campaign, right?”
Slum landlord
Johan thinks it is a bad idea that Khalid owns all kinds of properties that he then rents out. “I also find it strange that a criminal lawyer is a kind of slum landlord with all kinds of properties. Look, that is not forbidden, but it is a bit shady if you sit in that corner.”
Wilfred, himself a pawnbroker, then said: “Well, it’s not shady, but if you preach the left-wing story and implement the right-wing one… I think that’s what most people were all about…”
Dark world
It gives Johan a bad taste. “It’s all about financing and stuff. It’s a very dark world.”
Wilfred: “Well… Now for pawns…”
Table guest Job Knoester: “I understand that there was criticism because he is in the left-wing corner, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be shady, right?”
Johan: “Well, I think: pawning means making profiteering from rents. Then you’re just a slum landlord if you buy pawns. That is not prohibited by law, but it is unsympathetic.”
Immediate dismissal
Job believes that Khalid has gone too far by accepting dirty money from a client during his time as a lawyer. Peter R. de Vries and son Royce de Vries covered it up. “If someone comes to my office with a story like that (…) he leaves immediately,” says the criminal lawyer.
And what else? “Immediately dismissed, I will go to the dean to report it and also report it. That’s just not possible. Not even if you say (as Peter R. de Vries did, ed.): ‘I have a nice office in the pipeline.’ If that’s how it happened, I think it’s really shameful.”