NEWCASTLE - Sacked NSW government minister Milton Orkopoulos has been charged with three new offences bringing to 33 the number of child sex, drugs and child pornography charges laid against the former politician.
A new charge of possessing child pornography and two new charges of supplying a prohibiteddrug were today added to Orkopoulos' list of offences in Newcastle Local Court.
The new offence of possessing child pornography relates to an alleged incident at Redfern in Sydney at midday on November 8 last year, the same day Orkopoulos was arrested.
The two new drug supply charges relate to alleged cannabis supply in Sydney in June 2005.
Orkopoulos, 49, from Belmont North, resigned from state parliament after he was charged last year with supplying drugs to two teenage boys and using government funds to pay one of them for sex.
Less than a week later, Orkopoulos, the former Aboriginal affairs minister and member for Swansea, was hospitalised following a suicide attempt.
A third person has since come forward alleging Orkopoulos supplied him with drugs.
Orkopoulos chose not to appear in court today where Magistrate Richard Wakely adjourned the matters until March 28.
The adjournment will give NSW Premier Morris Iemma an apparent break in a string of criminal charges laid against Labor figures in recent months until at least after the March 24 state election.
Last week, former Orkopoulos staffer and Labor activist Patrick John Roughan faced court on two counts of raping a young girl.
And earlier this month, Macquarie Fields MP Steven Chaytor said he would not contest the March election after being convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend.
