Court documents reveal Thai politician's drug jail time in Australia
NEWS: Sydney Morning Herald, citing 26-year-old court documents from NSW District court, has reported that Thailand's Deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao had been jailed for 4 years for his role in trafficking 3.2 kilograms of heroin into Australia in 1990s, which is in contrary to what he told Thai journalists in July this year.

Thailand's Deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao before the swearing-in ceremony of the new Thai cabinet in Bangkok on July 16, 2019. Source: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA /AFP/Getty Images
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Published 10 September 2019 12:01pm
Updated 11 September 2019 11:11am
By SBS Thai
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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