VAERSA ​​and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a collaboration agreement to develop a framework of integrity and public ethics

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Valencia, July 13, 2022.- The public company of the Generalitat Valenciana Valenciana D’Aprofitament Energètic de Residus, S.A. (VAERSA) and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have signed a collaboration agreement for the implementation of fraud and corruption prevention activities and the promotion of ethics and public integrity.
The agreement is the first that the Agency signs with a public company and has been signed by the general director of VAERSA, Ferran Vicent García, and by the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares.
Among the actions contemplated by the agreement is that of complying with the requirements of the European Directive 2019/1937 regarding the protection of people who report violations of Union Law with the recognition by VAERSA ​​as an external channel of their complaints to the Agency’s Complaints Mailbox and adhere to it.

In order for the Agency’s Complaints Mailbox to act as an external channel for VAERSA ​​complaints, this entity undertakes to include in a visible place on its website, or any other support it deems appropriate, the link to the AVAF Complaints Mailbox along with clear and precise information about its function and purpose.

The Riba-roja de Túria City Council and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a collaboration protocol to develop public integrity frameworks

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València, July 4, 2022. The mayor of Riba-roja, Robert Raga, has signed a collaboration agreement with the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, which aims to articulate a mechanism to fight fraud and corruption by implementing prevention channels against possible cases of irregularities in the field of local administration.
Local administrations with more than 10,000 inhabitants are obliged to have reporting channels for possible cases or situations of corruption. In addition, they must have external, independent and autonomous channels, to guarantee the integrity of the information, allow it to be stored, carry out new investigations, prevent its access to unauthorized personnel and do not reveal information that could identify the complainant.
To help the Valencian public administrations in achieving these objectives, the Agency provides advice on integrity, public ethics and the prevention and fight against corruption, collaborating in the training of personnel, helping with the competent bodies in conflicts of interest and incompatibilities to prevent and correct actions that could infringe the applicable regime in each case, in addition to contributing to the creation of a social culture of rejection of corruption, with public awareness programs or in coordination with public administrations.
The mayor of Riba-roja de Túria, Robert Raga, has underlined the importance of the protocol with the Anti-Fraud Agency of the Community “because it represents another step in the purpose of this government team to promote transparent and participatory policies in the management of public resources, in addition to continuing the path undertaken years ago to equip ourselves with all the legal instruments that avoid possible irregularities or possible cases of corruption in the administration”.
“The signing of this agreement with the Riba-roja Town Hall marks the beginning of a collaboration between both institutions to work on the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption. From the Agency we want to help prepare anti-fraud plans, as well as the construction of frameworks of ethics and public integrity, complying with the requirements derived from the entry into force of the European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of people who report corruption. ”, declared Joan Llinares, director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

Memoirs of an anti-corruption prosecutor

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València. June 22, 2022. June 23 marks World Corruption Whistleblower Day. As a result of this celebration, on Thursday, June 22, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency organized a conference dedicated to the first anti-corruption prosecutor in Spain, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, on the occasion of the presentation of his book “Memories of an anti-corruption prosecutor”.
The conference took place at the Colomina Palace and was attended by Carlos Granados, a Superior Court magistrate who was State Attorney General between 1994 and 1996. He is currently the director of the Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council.
The Superior Prosecutor of the Valencian Community, Teresa Gisbert, also participated in the act; the Minister of Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, Gabriela Bravo, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares.


You can see the session in the following link: