Balochistan finance secretary's remand extended in NAB custody

Mushtaq Rasiani is being grilled by the country’s top graft-buster over charges of corruption

QUETTA: An accountability court on Friday extended the remand of Balochistan’s finance secretary Mushtaq Raisani in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s custody for 14 days, days after more than one billion rupees were recovered from his residence.

“The accountability court has also granted a 14-day remand of another suspect Accountant Municipal Committee Khaliqabad, Nadeem Iqbal,” NAB Balochistan spokesperson told The Express Tribune.



Further, the court has directed the accountability body to produce both the suspects in the court on June 2, the next hearing of the case.

The top accountability body had rounded up Raisani and several other officials from Quetta’s Civil Secretariat on May 6 over allegations of corruption. A day after his arrest, an accountability court had sent him on a 14-day remand in NAB’s custody.

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 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.