An accountability court on Wednesday extended the remand of Balochistan’s former finance secretary Mushtaq Raisani to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for 14 more days.
The NAB officials produced Raisani before the court after the completion of his earlier remand.
The defence counsel informed the court that Raisani’s eyesight has weakened during the remand and pleaded to the court for examination of the eyesight of his client.
The judge ordered the examination of the eyes of the accused and granted a further 14 days remand for investigation on the request of NAB officials.
The court also granted 14 days remand of Nadeem Iqbal, an alleged facilitator in the corruption scam. Iqbal was an accountant in Khaliqabad municipal committee.
The NAB personnel recovered a ‘treasure’ of local and foreign currency and a sizeable quantity of gold from the residence of the Raisani on May 6 which the officials believe was accumulated through corruption.
The NAB officials raided Raisani’s house and recovered bundles of notes in local and foreign currency worth Rs 730 million. The bundles of notes, from Pakistani rupee to US dollar, were stuffed in large bags, cardboard and plastic boxes.
The corruption treasure also included prize bonds and a fairly large quantity of gold. The amount recovered was so huge that the officials had to bring in counting machines after they got tired of counting the currency notes manually.
Raisani is accused of embezzlement of billions of rupees from the national exchequer and misuse of authority.
