Mar302026

The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency delivers the 2025 Report to the president of Les Corts

Valencia, 30 March 2026.- The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) has presented its 2025 Activity Report, a year in which the anti-fraud control system of the Valencian Community has been strengthened: the entry into force of Law 5/2025, which has consolidated the AVAF as the Independent Authority for the Protection of Whistleblowers (AIPI) of the Valencian Community.

 

Record number of complaints. During 2025, the AVAF registered the highest number of complaints in the Agency’s history: 845 cases; an increase of 49.8% compared to 2024. This figure alone represents a quarter of all complaints received by the Agency in its eight years of existence.

 

Shock Plan. To deal with this volume of complaints and also to deal with the accumulated unresolved files, the AVAF has implemented a Shock Plan aimed at reducing deadlines and optimising the operational load, ensuring a rigorous technical-legal analysis. The Shock Plan has slowed down the increase in complaints to be resolved in previous years, has reduced pending complaints by 40%, has raised the total cases definitively resolved to 81.4% and has reduced the time for analysing new complaints from 16 months to just one.

 

Profile of the investigations and anonymity. The local administration concentrates 56% of the complaints. The most reported matter continues to be human resources management with 264 cases. However, there is an increase in the category of individuals and the private sector according to Law 2/2023 as a result of the entry into force of Law 5/2025, of 30 May: complaints from this group account for 18% of cases (139), almost a fifth of the total.

 

Anonymity is confirmed as the main tool for filing complaints, accounting for 72% of complaints (566 cases). In addition, through the Complaints Mailbox, which guarantees encryption and confidentiality in a reinforced way, 712 of the communications received were channeled.

 

Whistleblower protection. Since its creation, the Agency has recognised the protection status of 37 people (36 natural and 1 legal), of which 30 will remain in force at the end of 2025. The AVAF, in 2025, has intervened in serious cases of institutional harassment, achieving the cessation of reprisals in sectors such as the instrumental public and the university. In addition, the Whistleblower Protection Statute has been strengthened, assuming the defense of the workers’ compensation of whistleblowers against possible retaliation.

 

Prevention and external projection. The paradigm shift, in the preventive field, entails the new capacity to carry out preventive consultations (Art. 5 bis), which allows officials and authorities to consult files in process, before a final resolution is issued, to help deactivate irregularities before they crystallize into administrative or criminal offenses.

 

The AVAF has strengthened its presence in global strategic forums in 2025 to turn integrity into a vector of transformation. These actions include: 1) the development of integrity metrics through the LOCRIiS project with the OECD; 2) the standardization of the fight against corruption through the Hague Declaration 2025 (EPAC/EACN), and 3) the harmonization of whistleblower protection in the NEIWA network.

 

Registry of Heads of the Internal Information System (RSII). The Registry of Heads of the Internal Information System (RSII) has 752 registrations from the private sector and 485 from the public sector.

 

Training and culture of public integrity. 3,190 people, mostly civil servants and university students, have participated in 55 activities of the Agency, during 212 teaching hours. 90% of all AVAF training since its creation has been concentrated in the last five years (2021-2025), consolidating its role as a factor of cultural change in Valencian administrations.

 

Democratic integrity and efficiency. The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, also converted into an Independent Authority for the Protection of Whistleblowers, has reinforced during 2025 the technical and professional foundations of its function of fraud control and prevention in the Valencian Community.

 

You can consult the 2025 Annual Report at the following link:

https://www.antifraucv.es/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Memoria_Avaf_2025_es.pdf

Mar62026

DocuforumAVAF promotes reflection on public integrity among the students of the University of Alicante. #FormaciónAVAF

Alicante, March 5, 2026.- More than 80 university students of the 1st year of Criminology and the double degree in Law and Criminology of the University of Alicante participated last Thursday, March 5, in two sessions of the DocuforumAVAF program, the training activity focused on public integrity and the prevention of corruption aimed at Valencian youth.

 

Pilar Moreno, technician of the Training, Participation, Communication and Relations with other Entities Area of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF), presented the initiatives promoted by the Agency to promote the culture of information and the protection of whistleblowers.

 

Thanks to the collaboration of the teaching staff of the Department of Political Science, Katia Esteve and Manuel Menéndez, the students were able to analyse the obligations established by Law 2/2023 for all public administrations in terms of internal information systems and whistleblower protection.

 

According to the study “Comparative perceptions of corruption in Spain and Portugal” prepared by the Agency, people under 34 years of age are the least aware of the work of the AVAF, so the DocuforumAVAF program is key to bringing the institution closer to the new generations.

 

 If you are a university, baccalaureate or 4th year ESO teacher in the Valencian Community and you want to organise this activity in your classroom, you can write to formacion@antifraucv.es

 

Mar42026

Dénia promotes training in ethics of technical selection bodies together with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency. #FormaciónAVAF

Dénia, March 4, 2026.- More than 50 people actively participated in the integrity training session for technical selection bodies organized by the Dénia City Council and taught by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF).

 

The Municipal Library of the town hosted the session on the ethical and integrity framework taught by Pilar Moreno, senior training technician of the AVAF.

 

The presentation focused on the guiding principles of access to public employment, as well as on the specific duties of people who participate in selection boards, with special attention to the duty of abstention and the prevention of conflicts of interest.

 

The attendees analysed the obligations and responsibilities of members of the technical selection bodies, and reflected on the risks to integrity existing in the management of selection processes.

 

With this initiative, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the Dénia City Council continue in the line of collaboration aimed at promoting institutional integrity, which began in 2022.

 

https://www.antifraucv.es/el-ayuntamiento-de-denia-y-la-agencia-valenciana-antifraude-colaboran-en-materia-de-formacion-en-integridad/

 

Public administrations interested in having specialized training in integrity and irregularity prevention can contact the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency through the email formacion@antifraucv.es