Hannes Strydom’s Codeine ring: Carte Blanche producer unravels mystery, O’Sullivan misled.
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- In a story that ranks among the most extraordinary covered by BizNews, Springbok Rugby World Cup 1995 champion and pharmacy group proprietor Hannes Strydom took a massive gamble when hiring renowned forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan. Strydom sought to establish his innocence amidst serious allegations broadcast by M-Net’s investigative programme Carte Blanche. Following an extensive investigation, with O’Sullivan’s backing, Strydom asserted his innocence in an as live interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Strydom, who reported a loss of R50 million, attributed his misfortune to a purported internal criminal ring, which he claimed had also misled the team at Carte Blanche. However, the situation took a dramatic turn when O’Sullivan discontinued his services a month into the investigation due to unsatisfactory responses from Strydom. Two days thereafter, Strydom passed away in a car accident. In this revealing interview, Carte Blanche producer Nicky Troll offers her perspective: she suggests that it was actually O’Sullivan who was misled by Strydom, whom she implicates as the mastermind behind an illegal codeine distribution network. O’Sullivan, citing his devout Catholic beliefs which discourage speaking negatively of the deceased, has declined to comment on Strydom. - Alec Hogg
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Timestamps Below
00:08 - Introduction and Water Shifting
03:05 - Nicky Troll on the allegations against Hannes Strydom
06:33 - Focus on transgressions after Moutton left
07:59 - Illegal sales to the black market & Hannes Strydom involvement
10:09 - Codeine Addiction and Public Interest
15:22 - Verification Process of Carte Blanche
19:43 - Different Time Periods of Investigations
21:51 - Conclusion and Reflections
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Just another great example of how important quality old school journalism is in our world, well done all.
Not sure what you are referring to please clarify.
@@shortMario this whole story has too many loop holes in,a nd now that Hannes is dead noting further will happen,
still waiting patiently for this clarification
How did O'sullivans miss it? A forensic auditor with a 6th sense, gambling with his professional integrity? Then Strydoms life ended in a car crash - it sounds like the bosassa story? There seems to be much more to this than meets the eye.
It all seems quite convenient and beneficial to certain parties...
@@YusufGinnah The more you look the less you see. I am sure all these guilty people that conveniently die before they are prosecuted are all 💩
@@jjhout5988interesting story.
What was Hannes trying to achieve here. Buy a few months to do what exactly….. Maybe liquidate assets and find a non extradition country to move to….
If so, then his “lie” makes sense…
O’S was either in on the lie or a victim himself.
I met Hannes once, more than 20 years ago, but I have no opinion of either these two gentlemen. Based in his track record I find it hard to accept that O’S is a tool. On the other hand I have lost trust in mainstream media and have the perception that they will spin stories to their benefit.
Conclusion: the fourth estate needs to step up and win back respect through good journalism. Telling us that a manufactured consensus, “97% of scientists bla bla” is just not a convincing argument.
In this instance the Carte Blanche comment and explanation seems very plausible……even convincing when one adds in the fact that O’S cuts ties with Strydom days before his accident and death.
Where do people get the money to feed their codine addiction through the consumption of cough syrup. All that sugar will be worse than the harm caused by the codine. This seems like a rather stupid drug of choice. But then again,stupid is as stupid does.
I have said things on here before about O'Sullivan and been immediately censored. Even here, you can see that there are 4 comments listed but only 2 or 3 visible.
@@powerbite92 You're absolutely right. Recently TH-cam has been shadow-banning many of my comments too, in (mostly) the political comments sections.
We need to play within the guidelines and the guardrails...
Paul O'Sullivan, Alec Hogg and myself included - it looks like we all got TROLLed.
Just own the mistake Alec. Also Paul O'Sullivan should show face and own it too, his absence is awfully convenient.
I think the final word on this story is a long way off. I think Alex acted appropriately. There is big issues with Nickys naritive it does not pass the smell test at all. Her report feels much more like a scripted naritive then it does a actual story. The evidence she presents she presents as an neat forensic naritive. A complete accounting trail accurately documenting black market transactions. Illicit smuggling simply does not follow this pattern. The fact she put forth Zero hard evidence in terms of inventory or eye witness accounts from end users are telling omissions. This story feels like a fabrication of evidence to fit a prescribed naritive. Also the time line of the Story does not make sense. the document pile Nicky presented on top of the production work needed to produce this program simply is not in line with reality. There is to mutch documentation for the time line she has mensuoned as the investigatory window. If she started to gather docs, investigate the facts work through, conclude and then on top of this produce the episode I would not expect the process to be complete by this early stage. Ask any person with a few years of production experience and they will tell you that anless Nicky was on Adorol and did not sleep for months this story cannot possibly be on the screen by now. Its mutch more likely that the evidence in documents are stage props. I think wat we have here is a hearsay story that has been scripted and propped to fit with the Cart Blach brand
@@shortMario wow, just looking at your spelling I can understand why you don't think Carte Blanche can produce an episode in that timeline.
@@shortMario wow, just looking at your spelling I can understand why you don't think Carte Blanche can produce an episode in that timeline.
@@koegness Can you please in your expert opinion as somone who have been involved in 100 plus narated investigative films explain to us all the ellemtns that goes into making a program like the one Cart Blance makes. Please take special care to explain exactly how the process works in tems of 1. Research
2. Ducment traffic 3. Investigation Phase 4. Witnesses
5. Evidence varification
6. Script wrighting (compiling of content)
7. Editorial approval
8. Budgetory process and approval
9. Operational fase of filming
10. Editing Process
11. Man power requirement
Take special care in explaining the time lines of the projected, the man hour allocation on each of these ellements taking special care on explaining exactly what ellemtns can be persued in parrellel. and how the final product is integrated and executed in terms of production. Then after you have done this give me a nice tutorial on the virtues and elivs assosiated with poor spelling
Of the characters were of different hue, yho! The floor wd be full of drivel.
Come on alec you dont talk to a woman like that.Its not a pissing contest.I think you owe that lady an apology. Very poor behaviour from you.I thought better of you really.
Agree with you 100%. To err is human and if you made a mistake of sorts ..man up and you will have a degree of credibility left. But to become disrespectful and defensive is not on. I have watched many of Alec and Paul's videos and enjoyed them. Why drop the ball like this now? Just a thought. Cheers.
Agreed, that was an unbecoming response and not very professional, he should have owned up to his error and not used vulgarity to try and cover it. I also expect Paul O'Sullivan to take ownership of his mistake, he's an incredible asset to this country, but we can all make errors in judgement, or in facts.
The pissing contest wasn't won by the biggest swinging di@k this time. 👏
My sentiments exactly Andre
It's called figure of speech
I watched the Carte Blanche story and it made more sense to me than the biznews version
You are right.
Its not a pissing match? Buddy come on.
Weldone to Nikky. She handled this interview very well and held Alec accountable. Carte Blanche was trashed in the initial interview (even in the comments section) and BizNewz should have given them the courtesy of a 4 way interview so that Carte Blanche could have defended themselves. That is fair journalism. Yes Alec, this is not a pissing competition but as a reputable channel, your necessary due diligence should have been done. Own up to it Alec and an apology from BizNews and Paul is in order in this case. Paul didnt do his DD either evidently.
Yes Nicky should have taken him to the cleaners. This exposes Bizz news level of professionalism or lack thereof
I can’t believe BizNews was so reckless by conducting this interview and not even taking the time to watch the Cart Blanche insert.
Not sure I agree with you here. There is plenty of holes in the cart blanch naritive. Chiefe of which I must say is that the overly complete paper trail simply does not hold water for a blackmarket opioid ring. The entire thing feels manufactured and the way Cart Blanch put the story together feels like a scripted naritive with very spisific story beats as apose to an actual situasion. I don't buy it for a second
and now that Hannes has passed on nothing further will happen I think,truth will never come if he was involved or not, @@shortMario
Disappointed, Alec. Instead of accepting that you blundered in that interview, influenced by the personalities and not doing your research, you kept on justifying yourself, using Mr Sullivan as your get out of jail free card. You made it hard for Ms Troll to state her case even though she was clearly in the right. An apology would have been the bigger thing to do, surely? You messed up.
Alex did nothing wrong here. He interviewed two people. One being in the eye of a fire storm and the other a champion of untangling fuckery. If Hannes was enouth of a muppet to leave a invoice train a mile long he surtainly would not have had the engenering ability to co opt Sulivan. This intire Carte Blance Naritive is horse shit. The give away is this lady complaining about platforming a grifter. You would want to platform the grifter so he can expose himself. When ever a astablisment figure insists appon shutting someone up or retrospectively try to cancel them its a sure fire sighn of deflection or retrospectively tweeking the narrative. Its sutch a rudimentary basic play Its in the same league as calling everyone a racist. Please brother don't be blinded by this basic sofistry
I don't agree. Alec Hogg called it as it is. An interview given by request of a trusted and reputable man to give a platform for right of reply.... freedom of speech that Carte Blanche did not want.
BizNews interviews people.... that is their business.... and afforded Carte Blanche a platform for right of reply too.... they wanted the freedom of speech he offered but call out Alec for having given the same thing to the man they publicly condemned!!!! Not right!!!!
Did you watch that interview? Carte Blanche was discredited. Why are you defending BizNews and Alec Hogg? Emotionally based decisions obscure judgement. Hogg was caught up in a preconceived notion. Unwise. He's damaged his reputation and the credibility of BizNews. It's not the first time. I no longer follow BizNews because of it.
@@soaronwingslikeeagles7982 if he is as reputable as everyone believes, he should know the extents that CB goes to before publishing stories… that should have been an alarm bell in its own. That interview was done with bias. He owes her an apology.
Absolutely. He showed his true colours.
The intriguing part of this is Hansie died, Gavin Watson died and now Hannes died. This is what we are told. What are the chances of this?
The Alec Hogg error - I recall when he was all for Bosasa when they turned out to be a complete criminal syndicate - old Alec should stick with the numbers he really sucks at the criminality stuff - always bambozzled by the criminals
Sometime back, Sakina Kwamendo interviewed O'Sullvan on Morning Live...Sakina asked difficulty question, and Paul ended that interview abruptly 😂😂😂
Black African commentators have been all over POS for years because his official back story appears to be a fiction. Alec Hogg and Biz News pumped O Sullivan up and his 'official story' whilst most Black ZA'ns shook their heads at all the irregularities. I dont believe a word POS says at this stage.
Paul is a bully
I love biznews but you guys fucked up
Your loyalty has made you missed the facts
Alec you got your ass kicked .
So who took him out?
I love your programme and will continue to support it. HOWEVER, in this case Nicky was spot on in observing that BizNews should have checked the veracity of the allegations before releasing the O Sullivan interview. After all, your gut feel was that something was wrong with it - you contacted Carte Blanche after airing. Kudos for giving Carte Blanche the opportunity to clarify and situation and to gently reprimand you.
Excellent work by Carte Blanche, Nicky and her team. I must say that ever since I watched an interview with Paul O’Sullivan I felt there is something about this dude.
When POS pretends that he, as just one man, can take down a massive governmental corruption operation - alarm bells should start ringing...
NEVER FORGET: Who stood to benefit from the illegal sales! Follow the money! Where does it lead to? Hannes Strydom.
Well if he meticulously documented every sale it actually leads to the tax man. Thus feels like some sort of extortion type situation to me. Also neatly wraps up his untimely demise.
Alec, an apology to Carte Blanche was all that's needed. Thanks for the content, now we know two sides of the story
Not sure an appology is justified or needed. Alex did nothing wrong at all. The Cart Blanch investigation or at least the way they delivered the results is problematic. Alex is not beholden to Cart Blanch in the least. On top of this Nicky called for a voice to be silenced a voice of the accused non the less. Even if he is lying through his teeth there is no justification to call for his voice to be silenced. If anything Nicky should apologise to the public at large for taking us for muppets.
Alec's content is usually very good as well as his overall attitude but today it feels as if he patronised/was somehow dismissive of Nicky.
rightfully so. This story smells of horse shit. I don't buy it for a second. The naritive simply does not fit a crime of this nature. The documentation and the fact that it documents the actual smuggling in a clean ABC way does not make any sense I am sorry to say. It feels like an naritive story with a ledger being the main protagonist. There is something very fishy about this Nicky woman . I hope someone digs and gets to the bottom of this sofistry.
Hey @@shortMario :) Nice bumping into you under every comment as you become more and more colourful in your attempts to ..Shut It Down. Nice Try. Is it working though?
@powerbite92 There is nothing to "work or not to work" I simply chose to ingage on a spisific topic with multiple entities. Your implication seems to be and correct me if I am wrong is that because I ingaged with multiple parties it somehow diminishes the credibility of the problems I have identified. I would love for you to explain that logic and to then understand how you think that functions.
To get back to the question at hand
I can see obvious problems with this narrative Cart Blanch producers are coming up with. You or anyone else are of course free to follow your own interpretation tempered by your own sensibility and experience. If you feel that what has been presented here by Nicky is a fair representation and that the case she makes is a water tight representation of a plausible reality then so be it.
My suspicion is however that the inherent problem within the container of the Cart Blance production will be broadly challenged. There are obvious problems here and I will contend there is nothing wrong with scrutiny. You can and you should make up your own mind. From your reply I conclude you have made up your mind and of course I respect your position. I happen to think its a sadly naïve position but that is neither here nor there in the grater sceme of things or the realities as apose to naritives that surround this spisific story. You have yourself a nice day and if you have time please feel free to respond and explain your disposition surrounding credibility I would be very interested to see what you come up with.
@powerbite92 On another note very please to see you are reading the comments section of this article. I think it reflects a curiosity about the actual facts surrounding this story and a subconscious unease with what has been presented.. I would incourage you to explore that instinct to its full course
@@shortMarioJust another tool of the Industrial Deception Complex, you will be exposed soon.
Paul O'Sullivan is a forensic investigator who should have verified facts before granting interviews. He had access to Carte Blanche's facts as a starting point. Shoddy work to say the least
Not sure we are actually seeing the full picture via the Carte Blanch lense on this. There are problems with the narrative they present. The chief of which surrounds the nature of the alleged crime and how the alleged criminal party has accurately documented the full extent of the alleged smuggling operation. The intire case seems to rest on this document trail at least vis a vis the defence that Nicky has presented here. On the face of it I can understand why O Sullivan a forensics investigator would see red flags all over this. The document chain seems to be to clean and out of character for a smuggling operation. The story represented by Cart Blanch also feels mutch more like a scripted naritive then it does a actual investigation. The story beats are simply to formulaic with the cast of characters neatly following a overly simplistic story arc. The overall arc follows the Typical structure cart Blanch more or less relies on in every corruption case they expose. I also take exception to the public good naritive that Nicky is evangelising. In the greater sceme of problems concerning public goods. This story is a nothing burger. South Africa has mutch more pressing issues concerning the public integrity that warrants investigation. This is simply not a truth to power moment Paul on the other hand has had many truth to power moments. Nicky's investigation as is the case with most if not all Cart Blance investigations is paramount to chasing rabbits while the dragons ravage the land. If I correctly follows Nickys complaint it boils down to an appeal to be above scrutiny combined with a brittleness regarding the integrity of her own credibility . She is on the one hand saying that her facts speaks for itself and on the other saying that an aposing voice should be deplatformed for daring to challenge the vary facts that she claims is water tight. The very voice of the very entity that she is aiming her allegations at. I for one would have expected a different approach and would have expected her to welcome a rebuttle from Hannes and his proxies. In stead she called for silence from the accused. There is mutch more to this story then O Sullivan mearly being duped ... There is smoke here thick toxic fumes as far as cartBlanch is concerned, my suspicion is that at the hart of it we will find a raging dumpster fire. I would not be surprised if O sullivan turns out to be the very person to expose it. Perhaps he will take a break from slaying dragons and hunt a rabbit for himself.
Alec, really poor of you. I had so much respect for you and your channel.
Egg on Paul and Alec's face. Should checked with Cart Blanche before airing. Damaged reputations.
Thank you for calling Hogg out, Nicky.
You ruffled his feathers because you didn’t back down so he showed his lack of professionalism and said it’s not a pissing contest?
I’ve long maintained that he simply offers a free platform to populist conservative agenda drivers without an iota of journalistic oversight, ethics or integrity. His platforming of the bufoolionaire Hersov is particularly nauseating.
Typical of Hogg’s questionable methods he had the absolute audacity to try to put you on the spot and demand you explain yourself and your research instead of having the integrity to explain why, and apologise for not doing his homework before interviewing Strydom and O’Sullivan. This is what Hogg does. Gives a platform to shady characters to polish their PR.
Perhaps Carte Blanche should investigate more of Hogg’s podcasts and find how many more bold-faced lying crooks have been given a free ride by him.
Hear! Hear!
@@allisonfarah5146NOT!!! Alec handled her with respect and candor. She was out of line being upset at him giving a right of reply to Hannes Strydom.... but wanting it for herself!! Condemning a man on national TV is OK... but allowing the man to defend himself is not? Unprofessional to expect to say anything that you want and want to shut down a reply. And watch... there's too many loose ends in the story she keeps saying she "stands by".
Respect and candor? Seriously?
Respect is not exhibited by dismissing someone with, "This is not a pissing contest".
Candor is not disrespecting someone who has the facts at hand with such a comment because Hogg could not explain why he didn't.
Carte Blanche gave Strydom the right of reply, which he refused. Carte Blanche always approaches the subject of their investigations for their side of the story.
Hogg got the story horribly wrong because he didn't bother to do the professional thing and actually do ANY research before the interview and, as is his wont, simply offered Strydom and O'Sullivan a softsoap platform to say whatever they wanted without any journalistic checks or balances, trashing the CB investigation in the process. The very least he could do was give Nicky the right of reply.
What he should have done is make an unreserved apology to Nicky and his listeners. By not doing so he shows his lack of professionalism and integrity.
If you think CB is so wrong and Alec Hogg so right, why the hell do you think Paul O'Sullivan has gone to ground? With his reputation in tatters, why isn't he shouting how right they are, and how wrong Nicky is, from the rooftops?
@@soaronwingslikeeagles7982
relax buddy
To follow-up my previous post:
an apology to Nicky and her Carte Blanche team for not communicating with them prior to insinuating that they'd been duped and come to erroneous conclusions would be becoming of you as a fellow journalist and program host.
A matter of honoring them as people even if some questions remain over the actual facts.
It would help healing in this.
There is realy no need for an apology and nothing to heal here. Nicky's story feels fabricated and the facts that she is laying out feels like a naritive tail following story beats. The intire naritive she is spinning feels way to clean and ABC. It resembles a story and not actual events. Also her call for deplatforming of a person of intrest is a sure tell she is trying to suppress scrutiny. The move would have been to welcome it so as to grow the story and capatilize on the publicity. ! I smell a big fat rat.
@@shortMario O' Sullivan has told so many fictions in his career and Biz.News hitched their colours to O'Sullivan's mast during that time. Its not surprising that they would be hostile to media who impugn O'Sullivan but what is need is a more open and audited investigation where the public can draw their own conclusions. It seems that Carte Blanche have every right to question O'Sullivan's version of events. As we all do, even in the face of all the previous hostility and censorship that any questioning of POS has brought to people.
Agreed. She comes across as ultra-definsive to such an extent that it immediately raises a big flag of doubt and suspicion. The reek is more of a stench.
@@shortMariothanks for your opinion, but Imm sure even you know the big fat rat you are smelling is your opinion and its lack in substance. Nicky is clearly in the right. She did the work. Period
@jacquescoetzee2323 Can you care to elaborate. Firstly what exactly is Nickey right about and secondly, why is this sutch a clear conclusion in your estimation. From where I stand there is problematic elements to the case Nicky is making, the naritive it drives, the editorial choices in terms of the evidence, and the qwality of evidence in terms of the logic train. Would be extreamly curiouse to try to understand the point you are trying to make.
I love investigative journalism. Interviews can be biased.
Alec was obviously biased. And sloppy by not doing his homework. Prejudice is not a good look.
@allisonfarah5146 I don't agree. His business is interviews. Paul O'Sullivan asked for the interview and I doubt there are many in the world better than Paul O'Sullivan as a forensic investigator. Everyone has right of reply.... especially with Carte Blanche condemning him on PUBLIC media. .... no innocent until PROVEN guilty ... and then she accuses Alec Hogg of giving the right of reply... but.... quick to want it for herself!!! Not right..... I fault her not Alec.
There's only one person in this story coming up smelling like roses here, and that's Nicky Troll. Amazing work that it appears a few others in the story could learn from.
Well done Carte Blanche and my sincerest respects to Paul O'Sullivan and Alex for the work they do at BizNews,. Paul O'Sullivan is the ONLY investigator in SA who has been prepared to take on corruption within the ANC Govt, his affidavits sent to and ignored by the Zondo Commission on numerous occasions. Keep up the good work !
Anything against the ANC clouds ur your peanut sized brain
In the last interview Alec had with Paul O' Sallivan I cld pick up the Strydom was just far to complimentary about how O' Sallivan was the best and the very best Forensic investigator mentioned about 5 times it came across that something more sinister was afoot
My biggest fear is not knowing the truth.
Well that's a wake up call for Paul O Sullivan.
Our heroes cant possibly do wrong, especially not ex springboks. We dont want it to be true
Just happened in Scotland. Scotlands 1984 Grand Slam captain Jim Aitken just got taken down for a multi million con man operation.
Nicky handled this interview with aplomb! No question the boys were too complacent and slipped up but she politely gives them an excuse in the 2 time frames. A real pro. No one wants to think a national hero is a crook but carte Blanche was not bamboozled. No wonder Paul o Sullivan needs down time.
Nicky actually harmed her naritive much more then she helped it. The naritive that she tried to sell is unconvincing and is an obvious fabrication. The document trail that her intire defense is based on cannot possibly hold water. Black Market sales are not meticulously recorded so as to be audited later. No one is going to want to pay tax on black market money or have a paper trail that exposes a crime that is a mile long. It's a preposterous proposition. Also if you want to prove a case like this you need an inventory trail and actual eye witness first hand accounts of the point of entry and preferably some end user examples. Did Cart Blance track down the end users and if they did why not present this as part of the defense . I will tell you why because it opens the door for 3rd parties to also interview the witnesses. There is something completly different going on here that is not remotely attached to Nickys naritive .
Comments being censored.
Good gawd go look at how smug Hogg was on the other interview. Geez.
"O sullivan a reptable guy" - more like hired gun. He even wanted to say Strjdom becuase he is a former springbok makes him beyond reproach.
Hannes Strydom was a drug addict, that's why he "thought the way he did", Alec...
Well done Nikky... Alec you slipped up, best to apologize and do your homework next time..
I don't agree with her. It was an interview. That is what BizNews does.... interview and give right of reply. Different format to Carte Blanche. And good..... not many places you can go to for a public righ t of reply when Carte Blanche publishes about you. Perhaps it differs journalist to journalists, but I remember hearing things some years ago and thinking I would hate to be caught in their cross-hairs. At the time it definitely came over that the sensationalism of a story mattered too much. Maybe things have tightened up since then. Who knows.....
Paul O'Sullivan is definitely a reputable man, and the interview was done at his request. A reasonable response to give the guy a right of reply when backed by such a decent man.
Well done Nicky
Black markets are in every business - the most lucrative are those connected to ESKOM - coal, diesel etc.
Remind us again (again!) about those precise (precise!) dates on which the CB story focused.And therefore where the "blind spots" were allowed to fall.
Biz news …took the story at face value…huge reputational damage, doesn’t help to be defensive.
Paul O’Sullivan has an axe to grind with Carte Blanche so he was not thinking clear and looks like a fool
Sensation seekers, always was, and alwayz will be.
Can you still buy codeïene cough syrup or codeïene containing pain tablets over the counter in South-Africa?
Biznews got slammed!
Gut feeling. The lady is a Journalist not a big media journalist. Clear it up Alex. Don’t let it fall by the wayside again.
Wow!! Sies, shame on you Alec!!!
I have great respect for Paul why would he wash his hands of this?
Protection of vested interests.
Mr Hogg and O’Sullivan sorry to say that you have lost some credibility.
Can this be a Lolly Jackson sequel? Stop the crime, clamp down.. O’ya, SAPS need to do the job. Just saying.
Biznews are not investigative journalists. They have every right to interview whomever they want and put it on TH-cam. Cart Blanch are not perfect either and have got it wrong in the past. so i I think the fact that they are allowing Carte Blanche a right of reply here is good enough.
You're correct. They're not investigative journalists. So no one should take them at their word about anything.
Lady sounds like you had the wool pulled over your eyes
Fascinating the lengths people go for greed and self enrichment... Another Bosasa
is he really dead, don't think so. Go to Mexico and you will find this Hannes on the beach.
Shocking behaviour by Alec and Biznews. No accountability whatsoever. "Just an interview" is the worst excuse ever. I hope you lose viewers by the dozen
We are all fallable
Is Jackie Selebi not dead
Alec not a good performance at all. Pretty sure you understand now. We know who is guilty with regards to the story
Oooops !!!!
Can Chris tell us about Executive Outcomes and Operation Lock links in 1988/9 Especially Brian Davies from Pretoria ?.
Chris was the reporter in the Orlando Cristina murder coverup in "83//4
I told you. Hannes is a crook.
Nikky giving Alec a lesson on investigative journalism 😂😂😂
I don't agree. Her story is incomplete . Too many loose ends.... much more going on. She was also upset that Alec gave Hannes Strydom a right of reply after condemning him on public television.... but wanted that right of reply for herself.... unprofessional.
Waits so Alec Believed O'Sullivan than Carte Blanche story, aii seems biased to me.
Heck this must have been embarrassing Alec😄
Some people lack the self-awareness to be embarrassed.
Alec you got caught short. Man up and own up.
Nikki is a great investigator
So they had an extra line. No worries.
Lol this shebeng is messing with my mind😢
I so trusted the forensic investigator to a point that I totally discredited n doubted Cartblanc but yho tables turned too quickly😢
What happened to diligence🤦🏼
Het dit ni met bi Watson perd wat sy car om I brug pilaar gery het Van bi lughawe ni!!!
It is evident Paul is not as competent as he’s been made to believe he is. How does he not verify ? Amateur things
Areyou ? Paul is a HUMAN, just like anyone else. It is very possible to pull the wool over a forensic investigator's eyes. They don't have super powers
He was misled, Hannes didn't give him the correct information to divert his attention.
@hendrikperkins8741 100% that's exactly what he did.
This is a frustrating interview 7 minutes into it and one still does not know what the issue is a better intro would have helped.
And here everone is an expert. Come now the man is dead. No one knows what caused the accident or whether he was taken out.
This is a strange situasion. The focus on the document trail seems to me to be counter to how a operation like this would work. When I sell goods on the bla k market I surtainly avoid invoicing and a paper trail. This seems to me like the most honest or stupid criminal syndicate I have ever heard off. It could all be real but my bullshit detector is bleeping. Also the very fact that the lady was complaining about platforming is a move that smaks of deflection and a brittle ego. Her story has to many scripted like naritive elements complete with turn beats. I don't buy the story and I don't trust the weaver of this tale
Kudos! This is a k@k piece by both sides.
The paper trail legitimizes the transactions by presenting them as sales to legit businesses.
Otherwise how do they reconcile their books? Purchases, inventory, sales, bank statements reflecting income on these sales etc?
@veziqiniso4425 what are you talking about. If you hide a transaction the way to do it is to forge the transaction to resemble a legitimate one. For example you sell 500 bottles of vitamin supplements to a non existing entity or you enter hundreds of insignificant entries on a range of fake products. Or you simply avoid the invoicing situasion completly so as to not face tax situasions. Alternatively you open a bank account in a non tax jurisdiction and invoice yourself for consulting work. that you then outsource to multiple non existing consultants yourself . Its not rocket science . You can also have a zero document regime and simply purchase political cover so as to avoid prosecution. The last thing you do is create a paper trail that document the actual thing that's the thing you are doing. You could also if you want to really be on the line generate invoices substituting your cash sales for sales implicating legitimate goverment entities as your final client. Goverment entities are so inept no one would ever be able to untangle it. This story is a complete fabrication or the late Hannes rest his soul was a complete muppet. I am sorry. I sense that Alex is very suspicious of the intire situasion and is probably going to keep digging.
Agreed crap blanche are scamsters and of that i have personal experience
Carte Blanche 🤗 Respect
O'sullivan is no such an angel ask him about the old age village in Northwold?
It is obvious that there are two stories here. Related only by the product being sold. The previous CEO (the ring leader which O' Sullivan was investigated) had his own network of dealers which he supplied. Nicky's investigation starts after he left. If true it seems as if some or one of the pharmacies dealt to black market actors the same product. Might it be that the CEO had direct influence at this pharmacy. Mr Strydom was probably the listed pharmacist for all the pharmacies ?
I don’t buy this accusation, O’Sullivan is no fool. Present the facts in front of him and get him to agree and I’ll accept finding but not until then. Why only a specific timeline and don’t wait until he is dead and unable to present his side of the story to come out.
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The whole story sounds a bit far-fetched to me, Carte Blanche et al looking for likes.
It is not a pissing match ????
Is Hannes really dead
Yes
Doesn't Codeine when entering the liver turn into Morphine changing the whole breakdown of the drug .................
Moti and Paul ?
I enjoy watching BizNews, but this interview should really have started with Alec apologising to Nicky for discrediting her work.
BizNews made a mistake, under whatever circumstances, and that's fine, anyone can make a mistake, but just own it.
After the apology she would be more receiving to a good interview, rather than just being offended, defensive and trying to discredit BizNews for the entire interview.
Not talk evil of the dead.......Catholic tradition right. Yeah.
Strydom became the fallguy. He passed on, and now everyone blames him.
Time to retire grand pa..
Biased Biznews stuffed up once again
I was shocked out of my shoes, actually this man's character was shocking. He sat there like a poor innocent angel, looking like a middle-aged grand-dad, In the first BN interview! Rapport front page had a 'take no prisoners' version of this man's bad character, even smoking a crack pipe on the front page!!😮Which clearly gave a true picture of a liar and a con, a drug pusher, and street drug user, called Hannes Strydom!? I then watched the Carte Blanche doc, which had the truth all along! Sies man!!His wife and kids have to carry this stigma of who, and what there husband and father really was!?? Biz News were clearly as naive as most of the public were,so was I, how could this '95 WC Springbok' be such a, liar (with a straight face) and absolutely without any shame or conscience???
Thanks Alec. You obviously found yourself in an awkward spot; between loyalty to Paul & his credibility, & the trust that you placed in that (and Hannes' hiring of Paul to clear his name), and the veracity of the Carte Blanche investigation; the direct involvement of Hannes in this criminality isnt however clearly evidenced, other than inferrals from the continuation after Moutons departure, and the inferral that the fund from these illegal sales were accruing to Hannes' business, hence the invoices presenting thexssles as legitimate sales, and the assumption thatvfunds werent been siphoned off from the business by an organised criminal network inside Hannes business; so there are still loose ends.
Nicky must also remember that Mr O' Sullivan said that some of the people involved were still in the company. So it is probable that it was they who made invoices out to non existing pharmacy's. There is no one so blind like Self righteous people Nicky.
This woman reacts strangely to the query around legitamacy "... lots of leg work ..." , " ... OSullivan looked at different time ..." "... look at all my many boxes ..." fact is, she does not once base her story on facts arising since carte blanch piece, and kick heels in and only relies on the controvertial piece as if it is the gospel. Not being able to put my finger on it, but it seems reliance on "facts" that are common or applicable to both sides of the story and then she concludes "... we stick to our story ...". Not convincing at all. Maybe Strydom was the master mind since 1995, but this woman fails proving anything. Shame that osullivan has such skew morals, "... not talking about the dead ..." seems more damaging than to state what is true. There is much more than meets the eye.
Carte Blanche producer Nicky Troll is very defensive from the outset and lacking credibility when it comes to specifics. Body language also tells a story. Just admit it.. Sometimes even the great Carte Blanche makes mistakes. Just get over it and move on by adjusting the narrative and stop trying to avoid pointed questions.
Sorry, who cares ??? With all the problems in the country, who cares about this ???
Paul O'Sullivan sometimes!