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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