A report by the Central Auditing Agency (CAA) on the financial irregularities at the Bar Association in 2007 said LE 21 million were spent by the branches of the Bar Association without any documents. It also said the Bar Association did not report to CAA the budgets of the branches and their income statements. The report, which Al-Masry Al-Youm will start publishing as of tomorrow together with the 2008 report, also said that the above amount was disbursed from the assets and from the pension and health care funds, and that the Fund's Assistant Secretary spent from the general reserve that no one other than the general assembly has the right to touch. It said the Bar Association wrote-off the money without knowing where it was spent, which suggests a grave financial irregularity. The report revealed more financial irregularities of wasting millions of pounds, such as depositing 50,000 euros in Misr Bank as money that would be transferred to the 'uprising' of the Palestinian Authority, and cashing them in the same day, although there is no such thing as an 'uprising' of the Palestinian Authority this year. It also said that LE 1 million were spent on hotel accommodation to attend the conferences that the former Bar Chairman Sameh Ashour held, including LE 278,000 to attend the General Conference in Port Said, LE 231,000 for the accommodation of 3000 members at the Seagull Hotel, and LE 47,000 for more accommodation for the members and their guests. It said hotel accommodation and transportation expenses of LE 213,000 were spent by Khaled Abu Kreisha, the member of the board, Mohamed Akif Gad, Sameh Ashour's undersecretary, and Daramalli Abdel Razeq. It said Kreisha alone spent 113 nights at the Cairo Khan Hotel for LE 29,000, whereas the allocated budget for these things was LE 14,000 only.
