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

Press release

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.

 

The new director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Eduardo Beut, takes office in Les Corts Valencianes

Press release

Valencia, July 24, 2024.- The new director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Eduardo Beut González, took office in a ceremony held at the Hall of Mirrors of the Valencian Corts.

 

The event was attended by the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, the president of the Corts, Llanos Massó, the syndics of the parliamentary groups of the Corts and the ministers of Justice and Education and Culture, Salomé Pradas and José Antonio Rovira, and staff of the Corts.

 

Publication of the appointment in the DOGV. 19/07/2024

Publication in the DOGV. Bug fixes. 23/07/24

The Agency organizes an online workshop on Internal Information Systems for the World Day of the Whistleblower

Press release

Valencia, June 20, 2024.- On June 23, the World Day of the Corruption Whistleblower was celebrated and for this reason the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency organized an online workshop on Wednesday, June 19.

The workshop focused on internal information systems and aimed to answer the doubts and questions that their implementation in bodies, institutions and public administrations has entailed.

The workshop was presented by Anselm Bodoque, acting director of the Agency, who gave way to the deputy director and legal affairs of the Agency, Teresa Clemente, who explained what the internal information systems consist of, the register of those responsible for internal information systems managed by the Agency and the assistance offered by the Agency to the bodies and entities that implement this system provided for in Law 2/2023, of 20 February, regulating the protection of persons who report regulatory breaches and the fight against corruption.

The workshop was attended by Delia Cuenca Antolín, deputy director of the General Inspectorate of Services of the Generalitat Valenciana and Carlos Miñana, coordinator of the Legal Area of the IIS La Fe (La Fe Health Research Institute) who explained their experience in the implementation of their internal information systems in their organizations.

Next, answers were given to the numerous questions posed by the people who registered for the workshop. With all the responses received, an article will be prepared and published on the Agency’s blog that will serve as a practical guide for all those in charge of the management of internal information systems.