A now-sacked Transport for NSW official sent a close friend a photo of envelopes containing bundles of cash he had received from a road contractor as part of his share of inflated work orders just a few years after he finished the government agency’s graduate program , an anti-corruption inquiry has heard.

In his second day in the witness box, the alleged mastermind of a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme, Ibrahim Helmy, was grilled about his dealings with road contractor Complete Linemarking , and spreadsheets detailing the amount of money he had received for his split of inflated work invoices.

The inquiry into the kickback scandal was shown a text message exchange between Helmy and his close friend and associate Adam Taki on July 24, 2015.

Earlier that day, Helmy had texted Comp

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