Minister sacked after being charged with child sex and drug offences
Police told a court in Newcastle, north of Sydney, that Aboriginal Affairs Minister Milton Orkopoulos, aged 49, had used government money to pay for sex and supplied marijuana to boys, Australian Associated Press (AAP) said.
According to a police document tendered to the court, Orkopoulos met one victim, then aged 15, in 1997. The boy, now 24, told police that Orkopoulos supplied him with marijuana on two occasions before the first sexual assault. When the boy was 18, Orkopoulos — who has vowed to vigorously defend himself against all charges — paid him about A$250 a week to have sex with him, according to the document.
