The Riba-roja de Túria City Council and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a collaboration protocol to develop public integrity frameworks

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València, July 4, 2022. The mayor of Riba-roja, Robert Raga, has signed a collaboration agreement with the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, which aims to articulate a mechanism to fight fraud and corruption by implementing prevention channels against possible cases of irregularities in the field of local administration.
Local administrations with more than 10,000 inhabitants are obliged to have reporting channels for possible cases or situations of corruption. In addition, they must have external, independent and autonomous channels, to guarantee the integrity of the information, allow it to be stored, carry out new investigations, prevent its access to unauthorized personnel and do not reveal information that could identify the complainant.
To help the Valencian public administrations in achieving these objectives, the Agency provides advice on integrity, public ethics and the prevention and fight against corruption, collaborating in the training of personnel, helping with the competent bodies in conflicts of interest and incompatibilities to prevent and correct actions that could infringe the applicable regime in each case, in addition to contributing to the creation of a social culture of rejection of corruption, with public awareness programs or in coordination with public administrations.
The mayor of Riba-roja de Túria, Robert Raga, has underlined the importance of the protocol with the Anti-Fraud Agency of the Community “because it represents another step in the purpose of this government team to promote transparent and participatory policies in the management of public resources, in addition to continuing the path undertaken years ago to equip ourselves with all the legal instruments that avoid possible irregularities or possible cases of corruption in the administration”.
“The signing of this agreement with the Riba-roja Town Hall marks the beginning of a collaboration between both institutions to work on the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption. From the Agency we want to help prepare anti-fraud plans, as well as the construction of frameworks of ethics and public integrity, complying with the requirements derived from the entry into force of the European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of people who report corruption. ”, declared Joan Llinares, director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

Memoirs of an anti-corruption prosecutor

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València. June 22, 2022. June 23 marks World Corruption Whistleblower Day. As a result of this celebration, on Thursday, June 22, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency organized a conference dedicated to the first anti-corruption prosecutor in Spain, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, on the occasion of the presentation of his book “Memories of an anti-corruption prosecutor”.
The conference took place at the Colomina Palace and was attended by Carlos Granados, a Superior Court magistrate who was State Attorney General between 1994 and 1996. He is currently the director of the Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council.
The Superior Prosecutor of the Valencian Community, Teresa Gisbert, also participated in the act; the Minister of Justice of the Generalitat Valenciana, Gabriela Bravo, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares.


You can see the session in the following link:

The Observatori Ciutadà contra la Corrupció and the Agency sign a collaboration agreement to carry out joint actions for the next 4 years

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has signed a collaboration agreement with the Observatori Ciutadà contra la Corrupció, a civic association made up of different organizations such as Acció Cultural del País Valencià, Atelier, Ca Revolta, Societat Coral El Micalet, Escola Valenciana i Perifèries and the Plataforma Castelló per la Justícia i contra la Corrupció.

On behalf of the Observatori , Consuelo Vidal has signed the agreement and Joan Llinares has done so on behalf of the Agency and will be valid for 4 years.

The objective of the agreement is to establish a collaborative framework to develop different actions and activities for the fight against fraud and corruption and the promotion of good practices and ethics and public integrity.

Cooperate in training programs for technical, administrative and service personnel; organize seminars or conferences aimed at informing citizens, professionals and organizations of projects and measures that can help to disseminate crime prevention, as well as the fight against fraud and corruption.