*KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau team in Karachi raided aresidence of private secretary of a top official of Sindh Local GovernmentDepartment and recovered Rs 31.5 million cash, gold ornaments and othervaluables.*

The raid was conducted after Ramzan Solangi, aide of LG Secretary Sindh,confessed to have stashed huge amount of cash and other valuables at hishome in Garden area.

Foreign currency was also recovered during the raid.

According to NAB, preliminary interrogations revealed that the arrestedaccused had been collecting millions of rupees as monthly bribes fromvarious departmental heads.

It has also been unearthed that the accused was running a gang of suchindividuals who were actively involved in working for influential figuresinvolved in misappropriation of funds of local government department

The NAB team says that confessions of the accused could lead to morerecoveries and arrests.