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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. Published By -Theguardian.com - LifeStyle News, Politics news, UK and world political commentand analysis: Thursday 21 April 2016 11.40 BST

Ali al-Amin’s claim comes as Channel Nine defends involvement in ‘story profoundly in public interest’ The estranged husband of Brisbane woman Sally Faulkner says he took their two children to  Lebanon  because he “just wasn’t OK” with her new partner being prominent in their lives. Ali al-Amin has been speaking to  Australian media  as Channel Nine explicitly defended its involvement in “a story that not only is profoundly in the public interest but also one the public is interested in”. Nine also announced it would fully investigate how four of its staff came to be arrested in Beirut, charged with kidnapping and finally released on Wednesday,  apparently in exchange for compensation . Amin claimed on the Kyle and Jackie O Kiis radio show on Thursday that he decided to take the former couple’s two children, 5-year-old Lahela and Noah, 3, after he “saw a few things happening in regards to Sal’s parenting or relationships”. Published By -Theguardian.com - LifeSty...