The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency organizes a webinar on artificial intelligence on the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day

Valencia, 10 December 2024.- The International Anti-Corruption Day was celebrated on 9 December and on this occasion the Agency has organised a webinar on the use of artificial intelligence in the fight against corruption.

 

On this occasion, Andrés Boix, professor of Administrative Law at the University of Valencia, participated as speakers, who dealt with the legal regime, controls and precautions of the use of artificial intelligence by public administrations for investigation and anti-fraud tasks.

 

For his part, Óscar Capdeferro, Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Barcelona (UB), focused on the automation of the fight against corruption, beyond the protection of the financial interests of the European Union.

 

The United Nations Convention against Corruption declared October 31, 200, December 9, as a date to raise awareness and prevent the importance of the fight against corruption.

 

📹You can see the video of the conference here: 

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has received the visit of the director of the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption

Valencia, 24 October 2024.- The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Eduardo Beut, has received a visit from the director of the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption, Marta Blázquez. At the meeting, they highlighted the collaboration between the two administrations and the need to maintain synergies, exploring new ways of cooperation.

 

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborates with the Attorney General’s Office in a course on public procurement for 50 prosecutors

Madrid, 27 September 2024.- The Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, was in charge of the inauguration of the course “Approach to fraud in public sector procurement” that took place at the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office in Madrid. In this act, the Attorney General announced the creation of two new specialized units to combat corruption and valued the collaboration that his institution maintains with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

On this occasion, the Agency has collaborated with the presentations “Introduction to public sector contracting” and “Authorisation and control of expenditure in the public sector” given by the head of the Agency’s Support and Expert Specialist unit, Amparo Martí.

The course was directed by the prosecutor Jordi Casas and was organised by the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office, addressing aspects such as the crime of embezzlement after the reform of the Criminal Code of LO 14/2022, the authorisation and control of spending in the public sector or administrative prevarication.

The course, which lasted 2 days and in which 50 prosecutors from all over Spain participated, also had as speakers the prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat of the FGE Antonio Colmenarejo, as well as the professor of Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha Adán Nieto, and the professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Complutense University Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina.

 

Press release from the Attorney General’s Office:

https://www.fiscal.es/web/fiscal/-/garcia-ortiz-pone-en-valor-la-creacion-de-dos-nuevas-fiscalias-de-sala-para-combatir-los-delitos-economicos-y-contra-la-administracion-publica

Photo: State Attorney General’s Office.