Sep272024

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborates with the Attorney General’s Office in a course on public procurement for 50 prosecutors

Madrid, 27 September 2024.- The Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, was in charge of the inauguration of the course “Approach to fraud in public sector procurement” that took place at the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office in Madrid. In this act, the Attorney General announced the creation of two new specialized units to combat corruption and valued the collaboration that his institution maintains with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

On this occasion, the Agency has collaborated with the presentations “Introduction to public sector contracting” and “Authorisation and control of expenditure in the public sector” given by the head of the Agency’s Support and Expert Specialist unit, Amparo Martí.

The course was directed by the prosecutor Jordi Casas and was organised by the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office, addressing aspects such as the crime of embezzlement after the reform of the Criminal Code of LO 14/2022, the authorisation and control of spending in the public sector or administrative prevarication.

The course, which lasted 2 days and in which 50 prosecutors from all over Spain participated, also had as speakers the prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat of the FGE Antonio Colmenarejo, as well as the professor of Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha Adán Nieto, and the professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Complutense University Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina.

 

Press release from the Attorney General’s Office:

https://www.fiscal.es/web/fiscal/-/garcia-ortiz-pone-en-valor-la-creacion-de-dos-nuevas-fiscalias-de-sala-para-combatir-los-delitos-economicos-y-contra-la-administracion-publica

Photo: State Attorney General’s Office.

 

Sep242024

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency adheres to the Code of Ethics of Les Corts Valencianes

Valencia, 24 September 2024.- The Agency’s latest regulatory amendment included some changes with respect to the Agency’s operation, such as the equalisation of the Agency’s staff salary to that of Les Corts Valencianes, an equalisation motivated by the Agency’s nature as a statutory body.

Following in this footsteps of equalization, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency now adheres to the Code of Ethics of Les Corts Valencianes that is currently being drafted. As a safeguard, the Agency has provided that if the work of preparing Les Corts has not been completed within 6 months, the Agency will provisionally adhere to the Code of Ethics provided by other statutory bodies such as the Catalan Ombudsman or the Audit Office.

The objective of this accession is to avoid duplication and simplify procedures while at the same time it is intended that the staff of the Agency is equal to the staff of Les Corts also in this aspect, since being a public entity dependent on this body its staff must be governed by the same Personnel Regulations.

This adhesion agreement has been adopted unanimously both by the Agency’s Board of Directors, as well as by the unions, staff delegates and by the Corts themselves that have received the application for membership.

Sep232024

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the Valencia City Council collaborate for another year in the integrity training of their staff. #AVAFTraining

Valencia.- September 20, 2024. The AVAF Training Service has collaborated for the third consecutive year in the integrity training provided by the Valencia City Council to the public employees of the institution.


Tabacalera hosted last Friday, September 20, the second session of the course “Key professional skills. Show integrity” in which specialized personnel from the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency collaborate as teachers.


Marita Oliver, a technician from the Agency’s Training Service, began the training session with the presentation “Alerts, complaints and investigations. AVAF external channel” with the aim of providing information on the information system regulated by Law 2/2023, which public employees must be aware of.

Pilar Moreno, a technician from the AVAF Training Service, presented, in her first intervention of the morning, the institutional system against corruption existing in Spain and presented to the attendees the origin and functions of the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community.


After the break, the AVAF staff focused their presentation on the irregularities present in the local administration and the prevention initiatives developed by the current regulations.
The main risks identified in decision-making in the local administration, such as cosmetic transparency or lack of planning, can jeopardize the principles of effectiveness and efficiency that guide the work of public institutions and were developed throughout the session.

 

“Usual risks and alerts in public management” the workshop facilitated by Pilar Moreno, involved the active participation of the attendees through their reflections. The conflict of interest, the risk situation that requires reflection in public administration was the guiding thread of the workshop.

 

The attendees of the course, included in the training plan of the local corporation, have very diverse profiles: local development agents, subordinate staff and technicians from various municipal departments.

With this new initiative, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency continues its commitment to collaborate with the training in integrity and public ethics of public employees of the Valencian Community.

 

If you wish to have specialized training in integrity and prevention of corruption in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to formacion@antifraucv.es