By Su-Lin Tan
An employee of logistics company Linfox has been arrested for allegedly extorting a sub-contractor for gifts and payments worth about $500,000 over a two-year period.
The gifts that 38-year-old man Badih El Khatib, who is said to be a regional manager with Linfox, is alleged to have demanded included a motor vehicle.
Police allege that the sub-contractor, whose name has been suppressed by the courts, paid Khatib in gifts and money to maintain a transport contract.
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Police arrested Khatib in the Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt on Wednesday and charged him with extortion, corruption and dealing in the proceeds of crime. They also seized cash from
Khatib will re-appear in court in Penrith on June 12.
Linfox declined to comment because the matter was before the courts.