A former transport bureaucrat has admitted to being paid with envelopes of cash at an Oporto fast-food restaurant after allegedly asking a contractor to artificially inflate invoices so they could share the difference.

Ibrahim Helmy, 38, appeared before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday for a second day of evidence on his alleged involvement at the centre of a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme.

On Tuesday, he told a hearing he had been hiding in a cupboard when police arrived to arrest him last month, after he failed to appear for an examination as part of the probe in May.

Under questioning from counsel assisting Rob Ranken SC on Thursday, Helmy admitted to elements of an alleged scheme laid out at earlier hearings. NSW official ad

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