The Agency participates in a course of the Attorney General’s Office for the training of prosecutors

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València, November 28, 2023.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has participated as a teacher in the course “Crimes against the public administration: fraud in administrative contracting” organized by the Center for Legal Studies under the Ministry of Justice.

The course was held on November 27 and 28 in Madrid and was aimed at prosecutors with the aim of acquiring knowledge in this area given their high specialization and thus being able to safely address cases of administrative contracting of great technical-procedural complexity.

The course was inaugurated by the Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, and was attended by the Agency, the Director of Analysis and Research, Gustavo Segura, and the head of the Support and Expertise Unit, Amparo Martí, who presented the contracting in the public sector and the experience in the Agency in the main problems that arise in the execution of these contracts.

Other topics discussed throughout the two days were the most controversial aspects of embezzlement crimes, the problems associated with extrajudicial credit recognitions or the administrative malfeasance of authorities and public officials.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has been collaborating with the State Attorney General’s Office for several years in different training activities for prosecutors and this collaboration, which covers other areas of action, materialized with the signing of a collaboration agreement between both institutions on June 19.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency presents its complaint mailbox to organisations and entities throughout Europe in Brussels

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Brussels, November 17, 2023.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency participated in a conference organized by Transparency International in Brussels in which representatives of different entities, governments and associations dedicated to the fight against corruption from all over Europe participated.

The first part of the day focused on the implementation of whistleblower protection best practices across the EU to combat corruption and showcased the work being done by representatives of the European Union Directorate-General for Justice, members of Transparency International Hungary and representatives of the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice.

The second session focused on the advantages of secure and easy-to-use online platforms such as GlobaLeaks to denounce corruption and in which representatives from Slovenia, Finland and Italy and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency showed their experience.

Javi Alamá, head of systems of the Agency, was in charge of presenting to all the attendees the accumulated experience of the Agency in the last 5 years when it comes to receiving and processing complaints. To this end, it presented data and statistics on the use of external open source reporting channels. It also showed videos of the Agency’s staff in charge of handling complaints in which they explained their experience and shared recommendations and a set of good practices that were very well received by the participants.

In addition to secure reporting channels and effective systems for acting on whistleblowing, strong legal protection is essential to incentivise people to report corruption and other malpractices. To find out the extent to which EU countries protect whistleblowers, Transparency International examined the laws protecting corruption whistleblowers in 20 Member States against key EU requirements and best practices.

The director of the Georgia Anti-Corruption Office visits the Agency

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València. november 13, 2023.- Razhden Kuprashvili, director of the Georgia Anti-Corruption Office, has visited the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to learn about its operation. Georgia is currently immersed in the process of integration into the European Union and is being evaluated by the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe to learn about the legislation and active policies it is developing in the fight against corruption. The Georgia Office has been recently created and with this visit they wanted to learn about the operation of the Valencian Agency and its experience in the field of investigation, training and protection of people who report corruption. Staff from the different areas of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have given a presentation of the work they do.