Messages between two sacked Transport for NSW officials at the centre of a kickback scheme reveal they joked about how they would not get “busted” because they used cryptocurrency to conceal the cash benefits they pocketed from their improper dealings with road contractors.

In his tenth day in the Independent Commission Against Corruption witness box, former Transport official Ibrahim Helmy, 38, was grilled about the $413,000 worth of cryptocurrency held by him, and the equivalent of $8 million in cryptocurrency in a Binance account in the name of his sister, seized by ICAC officials before the inquiry commenced.

In July, the inquiry heard evidence that Helmy allegedly regularly gave step-by-step instructions to road contractors about how to transfer cryptocurrency from their accounts t

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