QUETTA: (APP) The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Friday night confirmed the arrest of Balochistan Finance Secretary, Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani and said that local and foreign currency worth over Rs 600 million and gold worth Rs 10 million were also recovered during the raid at his house in the provincial capital.
The spokesman for NAB Balochistan told APP here that following intelligence information and investigation into a case underway since 2013, NAB Balochistan conducted raid at Finance Department at Civil Secretariat in the provincial capital and arrested Provincial Secretary Finance, Mushtaq Ahmed Raisnai.
"NAB had been investigating since 2013 into allegations of financial embezzlement against Secretary Finance, Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani," he said.
He further said that Mr. Raisani was found involved in embezzlement of Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) and Local Government Department Funds.
He said that Mr. Raisani told NAB Investigation team during the interrogation that the embezzled money was hided at his house.
"The NAB team also raided the house of Mr. Raisani and recovered local and foreign currency worth over Rs 600 million and gold worth Rs 10 million," he said.
He added that US dollars and Britain Pounds and Saudi Riyal were also recovered.
The spokesman said that more raids were being conducted to arrest other accused involved in the massive financial corruption. Further probe was underway.