Geenstijl reports: ‘This recording came via ‘De Drie Musketiers’ (anonymous sources who previously leaked to the A.Ded.) in the hands of it A.D and through them has now also ended up at Geenstijl. We have chosen to publish the recording (with minimal editing).’
According to Geenstijl, confusion has arisen in the public debate in recent days about what exactly former lawyer and TV presenter Kasem was accused of.
Earlier this year, Kasem was featured in several articles in the A.D linked to bribery. The newspaper is said to have recordings from 2019 in which Kasem confirmed to Peter R. de Vries that he had bribed an employee of the Judicial Institutions Agency (DJI) to get a client released earlier.
No clues
The dean said last week that after an investigation he could find no indications of bribery of selection officials or attempts thereto by the former lawyer. Kasem informed Geenstijl, as stated on the site, that he referred to the dean’s findings.
Geenstijl says he cut the recordings in order to ‘not make public’ certain names.
Response AD
AD editor-in-chief Rennie Rijpma emphasizes that the fragment is not via the A.D ended up at GeenStijl. This newspaper itself previously decided not to publish the recordings and continues to support this.
Rijpma: “We chose not to make the recording public because we felt that our story spoke for itself. We have quoted verbatim from the recording. We did that carefully. We keep the recordings to ourselves and protect our source.”
