By Karen Percy, South East Asia Correspondent
ABC News Online
A Thai airport worker has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of spying on Thailand's former prime minister in Cambodia.
The case surround's last month's controversial visit to Phnom Penh by Thailand's convicted former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thirty-one-year-old Siwarak Chothipong was found guilty of passing on information about Mr Thaksin's flight plans to a diplomat at the Thai Embassy in the Cambodian capital.
During the 6-hour trial today, Mr Siwarak denied the accusations.
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