Senior procurement manager caught in ICAC inquiry

Soon after joining RailCorp last September as a procurement manager in charge of contracts, Wasim Khan noticed holes in its anti-corruption measures. With a wife and four-month-old child to support, it got him thinking.

"I always knew I wanted to try something," he said from the witness stand at the Independent Commission Against Corruption. "I knew in my head that one of the things that could be done is I could get a third party to talk to a particular supplier with regards to any contract, and that was something I did try with regards to this contract."

Yesterday Khan admitted before ICAC to soliciting a $50,000 bribe, through a long-time family friend, from a private security management company, Unisec, which was bidding for a RailCorp contract to monitor the performance of security guards on trains.

He said the realisation that he could elicit bribes "really kicked in" when the tenders closed and he saw the prices each contractor had quoted.

"That's when I really saw an opportunity," he testified, before later admitting, "I know what I've done. I've done wrong. And to be honest, you've caught me out. I know I'm guilty."

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