The newest dirt about Khalid Kasem – probably about his connection with Ridouan Taghi – remains covered up for the time being: the AD is not allowed to publish. “Is Yvonne going to leak it now?”
After the bizarre revelations about the shady behavior of Khalid Kasem during his time as a lawyer, the AD has a second article on the shelf that contains even more intense information. The content of this explosive piece is an open secret and is already circulating in the media world, but the judge has ordered the newspaper to publication ban imposed.
Public secret
The latest Khalid dirt will remain covered up for now, but for how long? It has already been leaked that the article is about his connection with top criminal Ridouan Taghi and many people know the exact contents. This is because the AD asked several parties for a response while writing the story, including BNNVARA.
Crime journalist John van den Heuvel writes in The Telegraph: “The reporters sent questions to Kasem, but also to his employer BNNVARA, in the context of hearing both sides of the argument. That questionnaire is now circulating in the broadcasting world and reveals exactly what track the newspaper is on.”
‘Very curious’
While the AD has initiated an emergency appeal, the question marks in the country are only increasing: what is so intense about the article that the judge bans its publication? “This of course makes us very curious about what is on those tapes. I am now even more curious,” says criminal lawyer Clarice Stenger RTL Boulevard.
TV expert Rob Goossens: “Let us not forget one party, namely those who leaked it to the AD. They could also decide to find another route, because they apparently think it is important to make this public and newspapers are of course no longer the only way to do that these days.”
Whole tape online?
You can also just quack it online, says Rob. “Yes, which is dangerous. Even if there is a very great interest in not letting everything come out, you would still rather have a newspaper look at it and put that filter on it yourself: we think this is justified to publish, than for someone to say: we throw the entire tape online.”
Hélène Hendriks thinks the same. She agrees Today Inside: “Can’t the Three Musketeers just throw it on a channel themselves?”
Colleague René van der Gijp: “Isn’t it bizarre that a newspaper now has information that we are not allowed to know?”
Wilfred knows
Wilfred Genee then hints that he knows exactly what is in the second AD article. “It’s already going around.”
René: “You already know what it is.”
Hélène: “It works out. There’s no other way, right?”
René: “You already know what it is.”
Wilfred: “It is published everywhere. The piece was given for inspection to the channel and to Khalid Kasem, who received it. The story is already going around, so it will come out soon.”
René: “One hundred people will know within a week and a thousand within a month.”
See Yvonne later?
Could Yvonne Coldeweijer be running away with it? Show expert Eline de Ruig does not rule it out, she says Show news. “It seems difficult to me. That the person who leaked that information does not now think: I will go to someone else, some juice channel, and then that information will still be on the table.”
Colleague Bart Ettekoven: “Yes. There are many roads that lead to Rome and apparently the people who leaked that tape to the AD benefit from this being made public. If it is not possible now via the AD, they will try to take a different route…”
And so the question is not if, but when, the Kasem files will come out…