Nine Network paid $69,000 to man hired to abduct children in Beirut, documents show

Sally Faulkner’s estranged husband says Nine banned from using footage from botched operation as part of agreement

The Nine Network paid $69,000 to a “child recovery agent” hired to abduct two children from a south Beirut street on behalf of their Australian mother, financial documents have revealed. The woman’s estranged husband, the Lebanese national Ali al-Amin, has also revealed the network is banned from using any footage from the botched operation as part of the agreement to free four Nine staff from a Beirut prison.

Bank records obtained by Australian media outlets show the payment was made by Nine on 22 January into a Swedish account named IPCA Limited, understood to belong to Adam Whittington, the British former detective who led the unsuccessful operation to abduct Faulkner’s five and three-year-old children.

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