The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participates in the Training Plan for staff at the service of the Valencia City Council

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Valencia.- October 18, 2023.

The 2nd edition of the course “Public integrity: prevention of corruption risks in public management”, included in the internal training plan of the Valencia City Council, took place on October 16 and 18, 2023 with the active participation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

Over 2 sessions of 5 and a half hours each, the training has been given by staff from the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency’s Training and Prevention services.

On Monday, October 16, 2023, the course began in the Nave de Ribes, located in the Central Park, with the session of Anselm Bodoque, head of the Agency’s Training Service. The institutional system against corruption in Spain and the work of the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community focused the exhibition.

Irene Bravo, head of the AVAF Prevention Service, detailed the initiatives to prevent fraud and corruption in public management that currently exist and are developed by the Agency.

On October 18, the second of the sessions run by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, was taught entirely by the Training Service staff.

Anselm Bodoque, showed the costs of corruption and public policies against corruption to Europe and Spain, while Pilar Moreno, AVAF Training technician, explained the cycle of the fight against corruption, highlighting the importance of integrity public and control systems. Marita Oliver, Training Technician of the Agency, presented throughout her session the alerts, reports and investigations together with the AVAF reporting channel.

With the holding of the workshop “Regular risks and alerts to public management” and the active participation of the attending public employee personnel, the participation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in the course ended, which held a final session on October 20 by the staff of the own town hall.

Our thanks to the Citizen Participation and Open Government Service of the Valencia City Council for the management and coordination of the second edition of this course.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency provides training on the impact of Law 2/2023 to the Valencia Bar Association (ICAV)

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Valencia, October 3, 2023.-

The protection of people who report regulatory violations, contained in Law 2/2023, has been the central axis of the training given by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at the Illustrious Valencia Bar Association, on October 3.

The course, lasting 4 hours, took place at the ICAV headquarters, located at Plaza de Tetuán, 16 in the capital of Turia and could also be followed in the “online” mode.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency made the AVAF “Integrity Code of the Valencian Community” available to all attendees, in person and online, around 170 people. 

The director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, presented the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, an entity attached to Les Corts, its origin, mission and operation. Throughout his presentation, he highlighted with special emphasis the AVAF as a collaborative body with the justice system and the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Teresa Clemente, deputy director and legal affairs of the AVAF, detailed the impact in the Valencian Community of Law 2/2023, of February 20, on the protection of people who report violations of the legal system and the fight against corruption . In the presentation given, he detailed the whistleblower protection procedure developed by the Agency, as well as the protection authority at the national level.

The third session of the day was led by Gustavo Segura, director of analysis and research, who focused on the internal and external information systems detailed in Law 2/2023. The new figure of those responsible for the systems, as well as the rules of operation and organization of the public and private sector channels, were also protagonists of the session taught, along with the technology applied by the AVAF.

The head of the Prevention Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Irene Bravo, outlined the importance of anti-fraud and integrity plans, together with risk studies in the public sphere and its business sector and the prevention of corruption risks.

This first training at ICAV is the result of the meeting held on June 7, 2023, which served to exchange experiences between both entities and is manifested as one of the avenues of collaboration initiated by both institutions.

Find out more information about the meeting on June 7 by clicking here 

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency shows its work at the VIII International Congress of Transparency and Open Government in Alcalá de Henares

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Alcalá de Henares, September 29, 2023. –

The AVAF has been present at the VIII International Congress on Transparency and Open Government held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Alcalá de Henares from September 27 to 29, 2023.

Teresa Clemente, deputy director of the Legal Affairs Directorate of the AVAF, presented the oral presentation “The impact of Law 2/2023 in the Valencian Community”. In it, he explained the effect of Law 2/2023, of February 20, regulating the protection of people who report regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption in autonomous communities with prior existence of competent authorities.

In particular, he detailed the protection of whistleblowers in the Valencian Community. The application of state law and what is established in the specific Valencian regulations is a core part of the exhibition, as well as the non-regression clause and the maintenance of the most favorable provisions for the rights of the person who reports.

The presentation presented was well received among the public specialized in the subject participating in the working group and generated an intense and very interesting debate.

Juan Vega Felgueroso, lawyer from the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, presented a paper with an oral presentation on “Evolution of transparency in the financing of parliamentary groups.”

The lawyer from the Legal Affairs Directorate of the AVAF analyzed the impact, in terms of transparency, of the agreement of the Corts Valencianes, regulator of the accounting and control of subsidies of parliamentary groups, based on the fact that said agreement created, ex novo, a control regime over the transfer of public funds from parliamentary groups to political parties.

The presentation presented by the AVAF lawyer caught the attention of the expert audience of the GT23-17 working group. Political parties, electoral participation and transparency, coordinated by María Salvador Martínez.

Pilar Moreno García, technician of the AVAF Training Service, participated in the working group 23-03 “Ethics and public integrity” with the paper with oral presentation “Training in integrity, the key to the vault of the institutional system. Contributions from the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.” Pilar Moreno explained that the priorities and training strategy of the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency are the promotion of integrity, ethics and public values, through training as a tool for the transformation of public administration.

Prioritizing training in ethics and civic culture of Valencian citizens necessarily implies helping in the development of a critical, participatory, responsible spirit, which is the basis for strengthening institutional and democratic quality.

The protagonists of the integrity training developed by the AVAF are the public employees of all administrations, with special attention to those of the local administrations and the Generalitat Valenciana, together with Valencian university students, children and adolescents.

The International Congress of Transparency and Good Government held in Alcalá de Henares has hosted various meetings of organizations dedicated to improving open government such as the “Network of local entities for transparency and citizen participation of the FEMP”, the “Academic Network of Government Open” or the meeting of the Chairs of Transparency and Good Government.