Anti-fraud agencies and offices demand a State Anti-Corruption Strategy

Press release

València, June 11, 2021.- The Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia, the Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption of the Balearic Islands, the Ethics Mailbox of the Barcelona City Council and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have requested the elaboration of a State Fighting Strategy against Corruption during the course of a webinar held jointly by all the offices.
National anti-corruption strategies is a tool that was already included in the United Nations Convention to Combat Corruption in 2003, which was ratified by Spain in 2006 and, in fact, Spain is one of the few countries that it lacks such a strategy.
The agencies and offices make this request since the Ministry of Justice is currently carrying out the transposition into the Spanish legal system of the European Directive 1937/2019 for the protection of whistleblowers and whistleblowers of corruption.
It is therefore a good opportunity to take advantage of this transposition work to develop a State Strategy to Fight Corruption, for which the agencies and offices offer themselves to the Ministry to contribute their knowledge and experience in this matter.
In the webinar, the channels and mailboxes for internal and external complaints that will be mandatory with the entry into force of the Directive both for companies with more than 50 workers as well as for all administrations and public bodies have been announced.
The webinar was moderated by Manuel Villoria, Professor of Political Science and Administration of the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, and the Director of the Balearic Office, Jaime Far; the Director of the Catalunya Office, Miguel Ángel Gimeno; the Director of the Barcelona City Council Ethics Mailbox, Rosa María Sánchez and the Director of the Valencian Agency, Joan Llinares.
The recording of the webinar is available on the channels of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency of

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8GwdQZskc
Ivoox (podcast): https://www.ivoox.com/webinar-sobre-canales-buzones-denuncias-audios-mp3_rf_71266011_1.html

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Transparency, a preventive instrument against Corruption. Unisocietat in Gandía

Courses

With a mixed format, the Unisocietat conference in which the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborates took place in Gandia, with 21 people at the UVGandia headquarters and 44 people following the online session.

The conference, Does this transparency really work, or is it just a fad ?, was given by the professor of Constitutional Law at the University of València, Jorge Castellanos, who focused on the origin of transparency policies and laws and the keys to its subsequent application, together with future prospects in the matter.

The basic conclusion of the intervention and the public debate is that transparency is essential to provide citizens with qualified information on government action and is a fundamental instrument for good governance, accountability by public administrations. and the prevention of fraud and corruption.

Unisocietat is one of the initiatives that are part of the collaboration agreement between the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the University of Valencia, through the Vice-Rector for Territorial Projection and Society of the University of València, and has, among other objectives, promote training activities for good governance and citizen participation in the Valencian territory.