The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency integrates an accessibility platform on its website for people with hearing and visual difficulties

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València, January 31, 2024.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has integrated an accessibility platform on its website: www.antifraucv.es. With the implementation of the new accessible version, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency is committed to equal digital access for all citizens and the promotion of a more inclusive society.

This new service, integrated into the corporate website, goes beyond the standards established by the legal framework for web and mobile application accessibility in the public sector, offering a more accessible online experience.

To activate the accessibility platform on the website of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, users only need to click on the warning tab located on the left margin of the screen. Once activated, the tool adapts the interface and navigation of the website to meet the individual needs of users, both visual and auditory, with the aim of obtaining an optimal web experience accessible to all citizens.

With this new platform, the AVAF advances in the process of continuous improvement on its website, with the aim of achieving 100% accessibility. This commitment to digital inclusion includes the continuous improvement of compatibility with screen readers, the optimization of responsive design or the enrichment of alternative content, subtitles and audio descriptions, to facilitate access to content for users with hearing or visual disabilities.

The City Council of La Pobla de Vallbona and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency have signed a protocol to launch the complaint mailboxes

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València, 30 January 2024.- The mayor of La Pobla de Vallbona, Abel Martí, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration protocol between both institutions for the implementation of both internal and external complaint boxes, thus complying with the requirement of Law 2/2023 regulating the protection of people who report regulatory infringements and the fight against corruption.

The City Council of La Pobla de Vallbona will enable as an external channel for complaints the complaint mailbox of the Valencia Anti-Fraud Agency, which will be visible on the municipal website; A mailbox that guarantees the confidentiality of whistleblowers, as well as allowing the possibility of being able to make complaints anonymously.

It should be recalled that Law 2/2023, published in the Official State Gazette on 21 February, transposes into Spanish law the European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of EU law, better known as the Whistleblowers Directive.

Through this agreement, the City Council of La Pobla de Vallbona incorporates institutional integrity into strategic planning, also enabling a specific internal whistleblowing channel and the connection with the Agency’s external whistleblowing channel.

The collaboration between both institutions will also extend to other actions and activities such as those of a training nature where the staff of the city council 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 National Anti-Corruption Centre of Moldova visits the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to learn about its operation in view of its entry into the European Union

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València, December 19, 2023.- For two days, a delegation from the National Anti-Corruption Center of the Republic of Moldova visited the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to learn about how it works.

The different areas of the Agency have presented in different sessions the functioning of the departments of research, legal, prevention, training, documentation, administration and communication. They were especially interested in the protection of whistleblowers of corruption as they are not exercising these functions.

Likewise, the delegation of Moldova has offered a session to all the staff of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency to inform them of the operation of the National Anti-Corruption Center that has been in operation since 2002 and has about 400 workers.

On behalf of the National Anti-Corruption Centre of Moldova, staff and directors of the directorates of anti-corruption legislation and expertise, education and institutional evaluation were present. Also present were two people from two civic associations that coordinate anti-corruption projects: Homecare and Casmed.

Moldova is one of the candidate countries for entry into the European Union and they wanted to know the work being done by the Valencian Agency to adapt to the community requirements in the fight against corruption.

For more than a year, several international organizations have been interested in the work carried out by the Agency and have come to learn about its operation, such as the Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione of Italy (ANAC), the Anti-Corruption Office of Georgia and the Comptroller of Valle del Cauca of Colombia.