Abduction charges not up to me, says dad

Ali Elamine says it is up to prosecutors to decide whether any charges should be dropped over the botched attempt to snatch his two children.

The father of the two children involved in a botched snatch attempt in Lebanon says it's up to prosecutors, not him, to decide if any charges should be dropped.

Ali Elamine says the nine people arrested in connection with the attempt, including his estranged wife Sally Faulkner and a 60 Minutes TV crew, had "done something illegal".

"It's all in the prosecutors' hands," he told 3AW in an interview broadcast on Tuesday.