The KRO-NCRV program without a trace has at least two people who participated in the program without a trace linked to the wrong family. The broadcaster announced this on Monday in a declarationin response to the broadcast of the talk show Jinek. Journalist Kees van der Spek was a guest there who in Tuesday’s broadcast of his program Scammers Tackled investigating the integrity of a Colombian intermediary.
In the episode, Colombian fixer Edwin Vela is investigated. He worked for years for without a trace, and, on behalf of the program’s regular correspondent, helped locate biological parents. The broadcaster says in the statement that it is examining sixteen cases in which the Colombian fixer was involved.
KRO-NCRV confirms that two ‘mismatches’ have been confirmed, two other matches have now been confirmed by DNA testing. “We will again examine the other twelve cases and, if desired and possible, offer those involved a DNA test. Since 2019, we have done a DNA test as standard in all our searches,” said the broadcaster.
In Jinek Kees van der Spek emphasized not to doubt the intentions of without a trace. “I assume that Spoorloos wants to do good things. But the question of what your identity is is so essential for adoptees that I had to dive into this as a journalist.”
In the broadcast of the talk show, he announced that he had started the investigation into the fixer together with a participant of the program after she had felt suspicious of the search for her biological mother in 2005. The mother in question did not want to contact her for unknown reasons. have hair. This also happened in another case. Vela had played a part in both episodes. “He deserves it. So if he is successful, he is a good seeker,” said Van der Spek about the Colombian.
A former participant who was also a guest on the talk show announced it without a trace to blame for not having listened to him sooner. He would have previously expressed his doubts about his found relative. “I already said at the time: things are not right. But they never answered that.”