CAIRO - Egypt's Central Auditing Agency (CAA), an anti- corruption watchdog was re-opened Monday after it was closed on Wednesday after violent protests. CAA Chairman Gawdat el-Malat went to the agency's headquarters in the Cairo district of Nasr City on Monday, together with other members of staff, the general secretariat and technical departments, according to Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA). El-Malt closed down the building after protesters from the staff set fire to one floor of the building, saying that “such attempts will not prevent us from issuing reports exposing corruption and the squandering of State-funds by members of the former regime”. He told MENA that they were resuming work to submit more reports on corruption and wasting public funds to the Prosecutor General and the relevant investigating agencies. He disclosed that he would contact the military, the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Interior in order to provide full. The CAA had submitted to the Prosecutor General several reports on corruption of former ministers and officials. The Agency was set up in 2004 by a presidential decree with a mandate to be the main financial supervisory mechanism in Egypt.
