Former Sydney nightclub owner turned food importer Adam Freeman will spend at least a week in a cell at Bangkok police headquarters until NSW police can bring him back to face drug manufacturing charges.

Freeman, 28, the son of organised crime figure George, had booked a flight to return voluntarily to Australia this weekend but was told by Australian Federal Police that he would need to enter Thai custody first as there is no extradition agreement with Thailand. Thai police have let Freeman keep his mobile phone, which he is using to call friends, including his model girlfriend of two years, Dominique Le Toullec.

”He has told them he is alone in a cell that has no blanket or pillow, and no one is telling him exactly what is going on,” a family friend said yesterday.

Last month police issued an international arrest warrant, alleging Freeman’s fingerprints had been found on items seized with 20 kilograms of ecstasy.

Australian Fugitive Traced To Thailand; wanted on charges of illicit drug manufacturing

Freeman, who fled to Thailand, after being linked to a lab which produced 19.5 kg of ecstasy seized by police in Australia last December, handed himself  in by prior agreement at the Australian Embassy in Sathorn Road, Bangkok.

A Sydney ‘businessman’ and nightclub owner, Freeman has long associations with Thailand. Shortly after his departure from Australia he was reported to have been joined in Hua Hin by Australian-Moroccan model Dominique Le Toullec.

Adam Freeman and his brother, together with fourteen other close friends, each have matching Thai body tattoos reading ‘ pichay’ – brother. The two brothers also have ‘George’ tattooed on their wrists.

Their father , a crime boss from the 60s to 80s, featured in a documentary ‘Underbelly’. But in a recent interview in the Sydney Telegraph Adam said: “Back then, an underworld figure was a different thing. He was a businessman, our Dad. He never got involved in everything else.”

In the same interview he declined to comment on whether his father ordered the murder of his own bodyguard Chris ‘Rent-a-Kill’ Flannery.

Freeman was reported to have been escorted to Suvarnabhumi International airport and boarded a Sydney bound Quantas flight which departed at 17.15. But airline staff could not confirm. In Sydney newspapers have reported that his fingerprints were found on drug manufacturing equipment.