An allegedly corrupt Transport for NSW official at the centre of a multimillion-dollar kickback scandal compared himself to Robin Hood and told his close friend “you can’t follow rules in this world”, according to text messages shown to an anti-corruption inquiry.

In his first day in the Independent Commission Against Corruption witness box, developer Adam Taki was grilled about his 20-year friendship with now-sacked Transport for NSW official Ibrahim Helmy, which began when they met as engineering undergraduates at the University of Sydney.

In a WhatsApp exchange between the pair on January 18, 2014 and aired at the inquiry on Tuesday, Helmy made reference to his string of alleged kickback schemes with road contractors and said: “everything I do is illegal lol [sic],” and compared himse

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