Signing of an agreement with the City Council of Sant Vicent del Raspeig

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The San Vicente del Raspeig City Council and the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) have sealed the first collaboration protocol between both institutions to start the development of different joint projects with the aim of reinforcing and uphold ethics and public integrity.

The document has been signed jointly by the mayor, Jesús Villar, and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, signing the action protocol. Likewise, the deputy director and legal services director of the AVAF, Teresa Clemente, the director of prevention and training, Víctor Almonacid, and different members of the municipal corporation were also present at the event.

The mayor, Jesús Villar, has highlighted that “from the City Council we work to combat corruption and bad practices. Of course, we believe that this agreement with the Agency, which we thank for its availability and predisposition to join forces, will allow us all to give the image that the residents of the municipality require, which is that there is neither corruption nor fraud in San Vicente del Raspeig”.

In turn, the director of the Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, stated that “the signing of this protocol allows us to unite a common project to build an ethical and public integrity framework that allows us to work on the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption. The objective is to help institutions to be able to control, prevent and avoid misconduct that diverts resources, offering both tools and advice”.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has received a visit from a representative of the Departmental Comptroller of Valle del Cauca of the Government of Colombia.

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The director of the Avaf, Joan Llinares, accompanied by the deputy director and legal services director, Teresa Clemente, the director of Analysis and investigation, Gustavo Segura, and the director of Prevention, Training and Documentation, Víctor Almonacid, held a meeting with Jhon Frank Vente, Coordinator of Internationalization and Agenda 2030 of the Comptroller.
Both institutions have agreed to establish collaboration agreements in the fight against corruption and the protection of whistleblowers.

X Meeting of the Network of Anti-Corruption Offices and Agencies of Spain

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The Agency has participated in the X Meeting of the Network of Anti-Fraud Offices and Agencies of Spain that was held on May 31, 2022 at the headquarters of the Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council.

Within the framework of this meeting, the situation of the processing of the Draft Transposition of the EU Directive 2019/1937 has been addressed and Red GlobE has been informed by the head of the National Anti-Fraud Coordination Service of the General Intervention of the State Administration (SNCA).

The Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council also participated in the meeting; the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Transparency Agency; the Directorate of the Analysis Service and Ethics Mailbox of the Barcelona City Council; the Antifrau Office of Catalonia; the Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption in the Balearic Islands; the Audience of Accounts of the Canary Islands; the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption; the Council of Accounts of Galicia; the National Antifraud Coordination Service of the General Intervention of the State Administration (SNCA); the Independent Office for the Regulation and Supervision of Contracting (OIRESCON); the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC).