Overview

• Hearings restart Tuesday with Ibrahim Helmy scheduled to give evidence for several days, and the commission set to sit through October.
• Helmy was arrested in September after failing to appear in July and being missing since May, and he has been detained to ensure his appearance while no criminal charges have been announced.
• Counsel assisting alleges a years-long scheme in which tender information was leaked and panels stacked, with contractors paying in cash, gold and cryptocurrency to secure inflated work.
• ICAC says nine contractors are linked to the alleged payments, including Protection Barriers, whose directors allegedly paid $9.2 million as the firm won about $100 million in work and later had assets seized in administration.
• Helmy joined the agency as a graduate in 2012, moved through procurement roles, was suspended in September 2024 and dismissed in February 2025.