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.
![ร.อ.ธรรมนัส พรหมเผ่า รมช.เกษตรและสหกรณ์ จากพรรคพลังประชารัฐ](https://images.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/2fa7f1b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1800x1013+0+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fdrupal%2Fyourlanguage%2Fpublic%2Fgettyimages-1155888355.jpg&imwidth=1280)
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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