The amount was specifically recovered in a project related to the installation of solar streetlights in different municipal and town committee areas under the Roshan Sindh program.
NAB Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal gave a cheque for over Rs224.071 million to Sindh Chief Secretary Mumtaz Ali Shah in a meeting that was also attended by senior officials of the bureau on Monday.
During the meeting, NAB Rawalpindi Director General Irfan Naeem Mangi said the bureau had initiated a probe into illegal award of contracts for installing solar streetlights in municipal and town committees of Sindh and found 19 contractors had deposited kickbacks in different fake bank accounts.