A sacked Transport for NSW official has admitted to receiving large bundles of cash from a contractor who flew to Sydney from Queensland five times to pay kickbacks for the work being sent his way at inflated rates.

In his fifth day in the witness box at an anti-corruption inquiry, Ibrahim Helmy also admitted that he received about $8000 in cash from another contractor in August last year – just weeks before police swooped – and gave half to a workmate while trading his own share for cryptocurrency.

He was grilled about a meeting he had at a McDonald’s in Liverpool on August 9 last year with a husband and wife from contractor Direct Traffic about resuming a kickback arrangement which had soured in 2021.

The meeting took place a month before police raided Helmy’s Merrylands home and se

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