Fugitive's no-frills hideout during kickbacks probe

Fugitive's no-frills hideout during kickbacks probe

A former bureaucrat and key suspect in an $11 million fraud says he was planning on turning himself...

Fugitive’s no-frills hideout during kickbacks probe

Ibrahim Helmy was hiding in a cupboard for the moment he had been warned about. Police had arrived at the share house where the former transport bureaucrat was laying low, living discreetly with strangers after failing to appear before a major corruption probe. He had paid the $175 weekly rent in cash for the unit in Sydney’s southwest as, month by month, he watched his $40,000 departmental termination payment steadily dwindle. It was the only t…