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ABC removes more episodes by sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal after investigation into anonymous sources

An ABC review of sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal's use of anonymous interviewees has found three more episodes of concern from Four Corners and Background Briefing.

Two episodes have been withdrawn and another has had a short segment edited out.

A separate ABC Ombudsman review into two Four Corners episodes is still underway. 

The ABC has withdrawn a further two episodes by sacked Four Corners reporter Mahmood Fazal and edited another due to concerns about anonymous interviewees. 

Fazal's employment was terminated in May after an ABC investigation into his appearance on a podcast with a former underworld figure last year, ABC managing director Hugh Marks confirmed at a Senate estimates hearing in May.

ABC removes third Four Corners episode led by Mahmood Fazal

The ABC has removed two more investigative programs associated with sacked reporter Mahmood Fazal, including a Four Corners episode about hitmen operating in Sydney, after completing its internal review into the journalist’s work for the national broadcaster.

Acting news director Lee Glendinning told ABC staff on Monday that the broadcaster had removed three more pieces of content, including an episode of flagship investigative radio show Background Briefing and part of a separate Four Corners episode Fazal had co-reported.

The removals are part of a deepening scandal at the ABC, which had trusted Fazal to front some of its most prominent programs, but removed him in May after he appeared on an unauthorised external podcast. That led ABC sources to raise concerns about the authenticity of sources on some of Fazal’s broadcasts, three of which have already been pulled.

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