The alleged mastermind of a kickback scandal engulfing NSW’s transport department told his younger brother he needed to “leg it” to Egypt several months after his home was raided, and the pair later messaged each other and spoke while he was hiding from police, an inquiry has heard.

In a WhatsApp message exchange on December 6 last year, now sacked Transport for NSW official Ibrahim Helmy communicated with his brother about the investigation that was under way into the former’s involvement in allegedly hatching a kickback scheme with road contractors which spanned 12 years.

In the exchange, Ibrahim told his brother Mohamed that “I gota [sic] leg it to Egypt real sooooo”, which prompted his sibling to ask him “how soon” that would happen.

“Either this month or Jan at the latest,” Ibrah

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