The Agency participates in Colombia in the IX National Congress of Comptrollers

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Cali, November 16, 2022 .- The Director of Analysis and Research of the Agency, Gustavo Segura, participated in the IX National Congress of Controllers held in Cali (Colombia) on November 16 and 17.

This congress allowed an exchange of good practices and experiences between different agencies responsible for fiscal control, as well as the fight against fraud and corruption.

Throughout the different tables and presentations, different proposals from experts were announced on the strategies  that can be undertaken to strengthen citizen participation,  as well as existing  digital systems so that complaints can be made with full guarantee for people who report corruption.  

Among the speakers at the congress were Sandra Morelli Rico, former Comptroller of the Republic of Colombia or Rafael Lafont Piandeta, former magistrate of the Council of State of Colombia.

On behalf of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, the Director of Analysis and  Investigation, Gustavo Segura,  participated, who presented the work  being developed by the Agency and its main lines of work both in investigation as well as in training and prevention.

He also showed how the Agency’s complaints mailbox works as well as the Statute for the Protection of the Person Reporting Corruption since it was the first body in Spain to  have a protection system of these characteristics to protect whistleblowers.

The City Council of Benetússer signs a protocol with the Agency to launch the complaint mailboxes and its Municipal Integrity Plan

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Valencia, November 15, 2022.- The mayor of Benetússer, Eva Sanz, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration protocol between both institutions that will help promote the Municipal Integrity Plan in which the City Council of Benetússer is working. 

Within the general lines of theIntegrity Plan, the implementation of both internal and external complaint mailboxes is contemplated, thus complying with the requirement of the European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of persons who report onbreaches of Union Law, better known as the Whistleblowers Directive.

The City Council of Benetússer will enable as an external channel of complaints the mailbox of the Valencia Anti-Fraud Agency which will be visible on the municipal websitepal; a mailbox that guarantees the confidentiality of the complainants, as well as allows the possibility of being able to make the complaints anonymously.

The collaboration between both institutions will also extend to other actions and activities such asthose of a training nature aimed at the staff of the municipality who will receive training in aspects related to the promotion of ethics and public integrity, as well as the prevention and detection of situations constituting fraud and corruption.

The mayor of Benetússer, Eva Sanz Portero, stressed the importance of “contributing to the creation of a social culture of defense of ethics for which we are committed to working, side by side with the AVAF, with the clear objective of advancing in the integrity of public institutions with the collaboration of citizens”.

For his part, the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, said that “it is positive to see how every day more municipalities and institutions begin to provideinstruments to fight fraud and corruption and do so not only with reactive measures such as reporting channels, but also from prevention with training and awareness actions. “

The Agency participates in the delivery of the Infoparticipa Stamps that CEU University grants to the most transparent municipalities and councils

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Friday, 11 November, 2022.- The Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) delivered the Infoparticipa Stamps to the most transparent municipalities and councils in the Valencian Community.

 

After evaluating during 2021 a total of 52 transparency indicators on the websites of Valencian local entities, only 6 of the 542 Valencian municipalities and 2 of the 3 councils have met the requirements to obtain this Seal that accredits their transparency.

 

The rector of CEU UCH, Vicente Navarro de Luján, presided over the award ceremony, held in the auditorium of the Alfara del Patriarca campus. The mayors and councilors of the municipalities of Onda, Denia, Rafelbunyol, Elche, Valencia and Gandía, and representatives of the Provincial Councils of Valencia and Alicante have collected the Infoparticipa 2021 Stamps.

 

Together with the rector of the CEU UCH, the ceremony was chaired by the regional secretary of Participation and Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Antoni Llorente; the deputy of Open Government and Participation of the Diputación de Valencia, Mentxu Balaguer; the head of the Transparency Service of the Diputación de Alicante, Antoni Canet; and the director of Analysis and Research of the Agència Valenciana Antifrau, Gustavo Segura.

 

The municipality of Onda, with 52 indicators, is the municipality of the Valencian Community that has the highest percentage of compliance (100%), followed by Gandía which, with 51 indicators, reaches 98% compliance.

 

Valencia and Elche, with 50 indicators, reach 96% compliance. Denia, with 47 indicators (90%), and Rafelbunyol, with 46 indicators and 88% compliance, complete the list of municipalities that have received the Infoparticipa 2021 seal at CEU UCH.

 

As in previous editions of the study, the CEU UCH Observatory has also analyzed the websites of the three provincial councils: both the Provincial Council of Valencia and the Provincial Council of Alicante comply with 47 indicators (96%) of transparency.

 

For its part, the Provincial Council of Castellón, with 27 indicators and 55.10% compliance, does not reach the level necessary to obtain the Seal in this 2021 edition.

 

The Infoparticipa methodology
The Infoparticipa Stamps are awarded in the Valencian Community by the Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR of the CEU UCH, together with the ComSET Research Group (Sound, Strategic Communication and Transparency) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, following the methodology of the Infoparticipa Map (https://www.mapainfoparticipa.com/index/mapa/), where the results of the Valencian Community are integrated.