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Former Transport for NSW manager Ibrahim Helmy.

Transport official cut off work to firm after kickbacks stopped, ICAC inquiry hears

A Sydney road contractor has told an anti-corruption inquiry that work dried up after his company stopped paying kickbacks to an agency official.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Cash and gold bullion were among the items seized from Ibrahim Helmy’s house.

‘I guess it’s not 100 per cent legal’: Secret phone recording played to ICAC hearing

In the recording, an allegedly corrupt government official has urged a contractor not to walk away from an arrangement whereby he received kickbacks.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
The delayed Malcolm Street Bridge barrier project in West Perth.

The traffic barriers that are taking as long to build as Boorloo Bridge

The $1.3 million scheme to build about 150 metres’ worth of road barriers will rival the duration of a $187 million, 440-metre piece of flagship city branding. Why?

  • Hamish Hastie
Complete Linemarking director Saso Gorgovski.

‘You couldn’t get rid of him’: Fugitive in NSW transport kickback scandal described as a ‘leech’

An anti-corruption inquiry also heard how two Transport for NSW officers allegedly approached a family business in 2019 to arrange kickbacks for contracts.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Complete Linemarking director Peco Jankulovski at an ICAC hearing.

Fugitive took bundles of cash at fast-food restaurant, inquiry told

An anti-corruption inquiry has heard how kickbacks were allegedly paid by a Sydney company to a transport official.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Tow truck driver Brett Jenkins at a workshop in Yennora, Sydney, Tuesday, 15 July 2025. Freeway and infrastructure tolls are screwing small business operator and tradies in western Sydney who are dependent on the roads. p5mett . Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald

‘It’s destroying us’: The Sydney workers who don’t qualify for toll cap relief

While drivers of Class A vehicles – cars and motorcycles – qualify for NSW’s $60 toll cap, small businesses and sole traders can spend hundreds a week.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
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Ibrahim Helmy and Meshel Chellew.

‘I am richer haha’: Fugitive transport manager’s message after $150,000 crypto transfer

An anti-corruption hearing has been told the now-sacked manager who is on the run regularly gave step-by-step instructions about how to transfer cryptocurrency.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Protection Barriers founder Jason Chellew appeared for a second day at ICAC.

Secret emails and meetings in Bunnings car park: ICAC hears how kickback scheme worked

The founder of a Grafton company who paid kickbacks to a Transport for NSW manager has faced a second day of questioning at an anti-corruption inquiry.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Cash and gold bullin were among the items seized from Ibrahim Helmy’s house.

Key ICAC witness put the rubbish out on a Sunday night. He hasn’t been seen since

An ICAC hearing has heard explosive allegations of kickbacks that included gold bullion and cryptocurrency payments running into the millions.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Remote pilot Daniel Scandar flies a drone at Mount White on the Central Coast from a transport centre at Auburn in Sydney on Tuesday.

Pilots put eyes in skies over Sydney motorways from 50 kilometres away

Within 90 seconds of being notified of a crash, transport officials will now be able to have a drone in the air to guide emergency efforts.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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