CAIRO: A fire broke out on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Central Agency for Accounting (CAA) in the Heliopolis neighborhood of Cairo, according to state-run news agency MENA. Reports said the fire took place on the same floor where the office of CAA Chairman Gawdat el-Malt is located but mentioned that the document are safe. The Chairman of the CAA decided to temporarily close the headquarters, which are in charge of monitoring the public sector and has documents that are believed to expose corruption. MENA reported that el-Malt attributed this decision to the lack of sufficient security from the element of the counter-revolution, he said, accusing what he described as allies of the former regime of trying to obstruct the work of the Agency in exposing corruption. “A misled group of protesters who demonstrated against the chairman and the employees of the Agency are behind this fire,” MENA quoted el-Malt as saying on Wednesday. Several employees of the CAA protested against the Chairman and called for his resignation, accusing him of being part of Mubarak's regime. The CAA has submitted 18 reports of corruption by former ministers to the Attorney General. BM
