A sacked Transport for NSW official gave $1 million to his close friend, a developer, while arranging for him to receive free concrete for construction projects from a contractor who was struggling to pay cash kickbacks for government work, an inquiry has heard.

In his eighth day in the Independent Commission Against Corruption witness box, former Transport official Ibrahim Helmy was grilled about arranging large amounts of concrete for friend Adam Taki from a contractor, with whom he had improper arrangements, in lieu of kickback payments in cash.

Helmy had previously maintained the concrete was for only one of Taki’s construction projects, but he conceded to the corruption inquiry on Wednesday that it was for three.

The hearing was also told Helmy commended Taki in a WhatsApp messag

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