The Independent Commission Against Corruption has expanded its probe into allegedly corrupt procurement practices at Transport for NSW, announcing that a public inquiry that was meant to finish on Friday will instead be extended to investigate other procurement practices at the agency stretching back more than a decade.

For more than 50 days, the ICAC has been holding a public inquiry into procurement processes at the agency since 2019, and for 19 days it has grilled Ibrahim Helmy, a former Transport official accused of being the mastermind behind corrupt relationships with nine contractors, in which he allegedly pocketed $11.5 million in kickbacks.

Ibrahim Helmy and his lawyer leave the ICAC premises on Friday. Credit: Oscar Colman

But on Friday, Chief Commissioner John Hatzister

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