The Agency teach a webinar for the State Attorney General’s Office on hiring in local entities

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Within the space “Formative Fridays” organized by the State Attorney General’s Office, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has been invited to give a webinar on “the procedure for authorization of spending and its control in the field of contracting of local entities”

The head of the Agency’s Support and Expertise Unit, Amparo Martí, has been in charge of giving this webinar and showing which are the main irregularities that usually occur in the procedure of inspection and intervention of public spending, making special reference to the figure of extrajudicial recognition of credit.

She has also explained the different phases of spending on contracting, as well as the different types of exercise of the supervisory function in these phases, always within the scope of internal control of local entities.

The Agency has prepared different guides and documents that aim to help in this task of auditing spending and improving contracting processes.

Among other documents that can be consulted and downloaded directly from the Agency’s website are:

– General recommendation on the path of unjust enrichment in the public sector, use or abuse?
– General recommendation on the execution of contracts in the key of public integrity.

The AVAF returns to the classrooms of the Jaume I University of Castellón with the docuforum “Corruption: harmful organism”

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The #DocuforumAVAF activity has returned to the university classrooms of Castellón in this 2022-2023 academic year thanks to the collaboration of Jaime Clemente’s professor, from the Department of Constitutional Law of the UJI.

The learning experience proposed by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) consists of several phases and aims to make students reflect on the importance of promoting integrity in public administration and protecting corruption whistleblowers.

The documentary “Corruption: harmful organism” is viewed in a first phase by students, in this case, from the subject of Constitutional Regulation and Fundamental Rights of the Fundamental Public Management and Administration degree. After it, they have the opportunity to formulate their doubts and questions on the subject, which are received by the technical staff of the AVAF.

Based on the concerns shown by the docuforum participants, the face-to-face session is prepared, where a training technician from the Agency explains the objectives and functions of the AVAF and guides the students in their debate on corruption in public administrations. On this occasion, Pilar Moreno was responsible for invigorating the session at the UJI in Castellón.

The debate in the classroom was dynamic thanks to the use of digital participation tools. This focused on answering questions from the students, giving full prominence to their concerns and resolving the issues raised. Among the doubts expressed, the concern about the relationship between corruption and the increase in poverty and class difference stands out, as well as why in Spain people who denounced corruption were not protected.

A total of 29 students participated in this learning experience in person, where they were able to share the different perceptions they had of public administration, society and the institutional system; being aware, furthermore, that young people and society as a whole can and should be agents in the fight against corruption in order to become active, conscious and free citizens.

If you are a university or high school teacher in the Valencian Community and you are interested in having the training activity “Docuforum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your classroom, do not hesitate to contact the training service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency at through formacion@antifraucv.es

Training in integrity. The FVMP staff receives the Valencian Antifraud Agency

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) and the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) continue their collaboration in prevention and training in integrity and the fight against corruption with a new training session.

The FVMP staff has participated in this new conference with the aim of approaching the necessary integrity strategies that each and every one of the public administrations must develop.

Víctor Almonacid, director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the AVAF gave the presentation “From anti-fraud plans to integrity plans” where he explained that by the new Law 1/2022, of Transparency of the Valencian Community it is mandatory that

  • the Valencian entities have ethical and conduct codes with a minimum legal content
  • the Valencian integrity system take into account in its design both the identification of the most relevant public identity risks and the prevention plans
  • and that public administrations adopt measures that promote a culture of planning and evaluation of services and public policies.

Amparo Martí, head of the Agency’s expert unit, announced the obligations related to the complaint mailboxes that all local entities of the Valencian Community must have and as the external complaint mailbox of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, complies as External mailbox for each and every one of the more than 500 local entities in the territory. To questions from the attendees, the mechanisms for the protection of whistleblowers and the current regulations on the matter were also addressed.

The attendees learned that the Agency provides legal advice to those who need it related to risks of fraud and corruption in the public administration.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has publications and resources to contribute to the learning of personnel at the service of the public sector. Find out here:

The AVAF and the FVMP have agreed to continue collaborating in the dissemination and support of town halls through training sessions.