A sacked Transport department official told the alleged mastermind of a kickback scandal about his confidential grilling before the corruption watchdog in December last year, warning that investigators “pretty much know everything” about their improper dealings with road contractors.

In a WhatsApp exchange shown to an anti-corruption inquiry on Tuesday, former Transport for NSW official Peter Le told his ex-colleague Ibrahim Helmy that investigators “had 150 pages of evidence”.

“They pretty much know everything. They know about avijohn, kerway, twin city too. And lack too,” Le said in the WhatsApp exchange on December 13 last year about their dealings with contractors.

Le was responding to a message from Helmy about how his compulsory examination before the Independent Commission Ag

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