Mushtaq Raisani sent on 14-day physical remand into NAB custody

Balochistan's finance secretary was arrested on Friday following over one billion rupees were found from his...

QUETTA: A sessions court in Quetta sent on Saturday Balochistan’s finance secretary Mushtaq Raisani on a 14-day physical remand in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) custody, a day after more than one billion rupees were recovered from his residence.

Raisani appeared before judicial magistrate Muhammad Hanif following his arrival in the court in a police armored vehicle.



Earlier on Friday, a NAB team had raided the office of the finance secretary inside the Civil Secretariat and formally placed him under arrest, followed by sealing of his office.



The country's top graft-buster had also raided former finance secretary’s residence and seized cash amounting to Rs730 million and jewellery worth nearly Rs40 million. A cache of foreign currencies was also found from the spot.

Sources also confirmed that a large number of documents had also been found during the search, confirming Raisani’s involvement in the real estate business.



According to a spokesperson of NAB, the bureau had kept Mushtaq Raisani under surveillance for the past three years during investigation of cases pertaining to alleged embezzlement of local government funds.

The amount nearly Rs1.5 billion in addition to the misappropriation of funds reserved for Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) during the year of 2013-2015, he added.