Former NSW Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos rearrested, charged
Convicted paedophile and former NSW Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos has been charged with three fresh counts of breaching his parole conditions after allegedly being caught with an unapproved mobile phone.
Police arrested the 62-year-old at his home in Malabar in Sydney's east just after 7am on Wednesday and took him to Maroubra police station.
Milton Orkopoulos leaving court last month.Credit:Isabella Porras
He was charged with failing to comply with his reporting obligations and was refused bail.
He is due to face Waverley Local Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Corrective Services NSW said in a statement it had informed police that Orkopoulos was in possession of an unapproved mobile phone in breach of his reporting obligations.
It will now write to the State Parole Authority asking for his parole to be revoked.
The parole authority said in a statement it would wait for that report before taking action.
Orkopoulos was released from Sydney's Long Bay prison late last year following an 11-year stint behind bars for child sex offences.
He was arrested last month for two alleged breaches of parole, including creating an Instagram account.
He has pleaded not guilty to those allegations and parole was not revoked.
Orkopoulos allegedly created the Instagram account early last month and failed to notify police for a number of days. He is also accused of talking to a child while on a call with one of his adult children.
He was scheduled to return to court in March regarding those alleged breaches.
The former NSW Aboriginal affairs minister in the Morris Iemma government was jailed in 2008 after he was convicted of 30 offences, including having sexual intercourse with a male between 10 and 18 years, possessing child pornography and supplying cannabis and heroin.
AAP with staff reporters