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He also wants to increase his claims for damages from various media outlets from R30m to R900m. 00:01
Alec Hogg has had criminal defamation charges filed against him. Image: Moneyweb
Cobus Kellermann has filed criminal defamation charges against Alec Hogg, editor and owner of BizNews, following the publication of a series of allegedly defamatory articles in 2015, written by Hogg and carried on Hogg’s website BizNews and Fin24.
These articles labelled Kellermann and his partner David Cosgrove as criminals and the kingpins behind the so-called Belvedere scheme, which was labelled a “blatantly fraudulent Ponzi scheme” of between R10 billion and R200 billion.