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Seven acknowledges payment for Sunday Night interview

Seven has acknowledged a payment to a third party for its Sunday Night interview with convicted killer Andrew Kalajzich.

The Seven Network has acknowledged a payment for its Sunday Night interview with convicted killer Andrew Kalajzich.

A spokesman for Sunday Night has told The Australian a third party was paid for the interview.

“An intermediary was used to help secure the story,” the Seven spokesman said.

“But it was a written condition of the contract that no money go to Andrew Kalajzich or his family, directly or indirectly.”

Last night A Current Affair hit out at “a shoddy lie detector test and a costly TV deal” claiming Seven paid $50,000 for the story.

It claims the lie detector test failed due to Kalajzich’s nerves and that Sunday Night has “more or less fudged the results, making us believe it has unearthed a shocking revelation.”

Kalajzich spent 25 years in prison after being convicted of hiring a hitman to kill his wife in 1986.

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  1. According to Channel Nine’s A Current Affair, the lie detector test done on Andrew was shoddy and yet another inconclusive lie detector test conducted by that poor fellow Mr. Steven Van Aperen on television over the years.
    It infers that Van Aperen was incompetent when in fact 7 should be the one taking blame for organising the whole fiasco.
    The Sunday program shows Andrew in total control of the interview and making a mockery of the inconclusive lie detector test turning it into a circus.

    The Current Affair story titled “Wife Killer” which ran a few days prior summed up the lie detector test by harshly and unduly calling the polygraph operator Mr. Steve Van Aperen “Australia’s self confessed Lie Detector King.”

    Research shows that it is actually illegal to conduct a lie detector test for any criminal matter in New South Wales.

    Van Aperen’s website infers that he was trained by the American FBI etc so he should be competent otherwise it is misleading and deceptive if he wasn’t. This perhaps supports the label given to him by ACA of being the “Self Confessed Lie Detector King.”
    The whole thing was a joke in the name of entertainment because it is also illegal for 7 to pay a convicted criminal for his story – no matter how that payment is disguised. The truth will come out.

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