Nov292023

The City Council of Manises and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency sign a protocol to launch the complaint mailboxes and the Integrity Plan

València, 29 November 2023.-  The mayor of Manises, Javier Mansilla, and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, have signed a collaboration protocol between the two institutions that will help promote the Integrity Plan on which the Manises City Council is working.

Within the general lines of the Integrity Plan, the implementation of both internal and external complaint mailboxes is contemplated, thus complying with the requirement of Law 2/2023 regulating the protection of people who report regulatory and anti-corruption infractions.

With this Law, published in the Official State Gazette on 21 February, European Directive 1937/2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of EU law, better known as the Whistleblowers Directive, is transposed into Spanish law.

The City Council of Manises 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.

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 Integrity Plan of the City Council of Manises will contain, among others, an institutional declaration of integrity; embedding institutional integrity in strategic planning; the establishment of a dedicated internal whistleblowing channel and the connection to the Agency’s external whistleblowing channel; the regulation and management of conflicts of interest; the training of City Council staff in matters of integrity or the promotion and dissemination of the culture of ethics and public integrity.

Nov292023

The AVAF course on strategies to combat corruption, for public integrity and the protection of informants successfully concludes

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Valencia, November 28, 2023

The two editions of the AVAF course “Laws and strategies to combat corruption, for public integrity and the protection of people who report regulatory infractions” approved by the IVAP, have ended with a practical day led by the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

On November 23 and 28, the students met in person at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia, in the last session of the course, where Anselm Bodoque, head of the Training Service, brought the students closer to public policies and the cost of corruption. The day ended with a workshop on the management of conflicts of interest promoted by the Training Service.

The AVAF course, 16 hours long and in hybrid mode, has held its two editions throughout the month of November 2023 where public employee personnel from city councils of the three Valencian provinces, Departments, as well as company personnel have actively participated. and public universities.

The first two editions of the course took place on November 2 and 7 in person at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia. Throughout the first session, the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, the deputy director and of Legal Affairs, Teresa Clemente and the head of the Prevention Service, Irene Bravo were the specialists who intervened in matters of the integrity system, Law 2/2023 and preventive tools at the service of the public sector.

In the second training session of the AVAF course, the Agency’s Analysis and Research Directorate presented the management of the internal and external information systems included in Law 2/2023, as well as the figure of the person responsible for the system and the management procedure of the AVAF reports.

On the third day of the course, the Legal Affairs Directorate announced the regulation of the protection of informants and the advice and protection instruments developed by the Agency itself.

Those attending the in-person sessions on November 2 and 7, 2023 received, as a complement to the training, the publication of the AVAF Integrity Code of the Valencian Community in physical format, although anyone interested in consulting it can download it online here

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency appreciates the trust placed in the training provided by the institution to the more than 150 participating people and continues as a reference in matters of prevention, protection of informants and investigation in the Valencian Community.

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

Nov292023

The Polytechnic University of Valencia hosts, for the third consecutive year, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in teaching the Master of Cultural Management

In 2021, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) formalized a framework collaboration agreement with the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) for cultural, educational and scientific collaboration. The central and priority objective of the Agency’s training activity is the training of Valencian citizens in civic ethics.

Within the framework of this collaboration, on November 28, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) participated with a conference aimed at students of the subject of Evaluation and Quality Systems and Budget Management of the Master of Cultural Management of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), in collaboration with the University of Valencia (UV), taught by Professor Antonia Ferrer Sapena.

The objective of the conference was to raise awareness about the importance of public integrity and ethics to prevent fraud and corruption in the field of culture and cultural management.

The Master of Cultural Management at the UPV, in collaboration with the UV, is the only one in Spain that serves key sectors in cultural management such as the management of museums and cultural spaces, performing arts, cultural tourism, and ethnological heritage. and popular culture.

This Master’s Degree offers plural training capable of covering the different social, political, institutional and economic sectors that constitute the framework in which cultural management is included. Its purpose is applied research to the cultural sector and training for professional development in cultural occupations and companies and in public cultural management.

37 students participated in the activity, mostly of Spanish origin but also foreign students, with different regulatory frameworks on cultural management; but with a similar general casuistry of problems regarding the prevention of corruption and fraud in cultural management.

The first part of the AVAF intervention corresponded to the head of the Training Service, Anselm Bodoque, who made a brief contextual reference to the need for public strategies against corruption, and to the general functions and activities of the Agency.

The core part of the activity corresponded to the director of the AVAF, Joan Llinares, who focused on the particularities of cultural administrative management, and the main risks of fraud and corruption that can occur in cultural management.

Based on his experience in cultural management, he focused his intervention on the public model of museums and museum collections, highlighting different aspects such as cultural employment and the impact of culture on the Spanish economy as a whole, to reach the deontological framework and focus in aspects of the ICOM code of ethics for Museums.

Subsequently, he developed the main risks of fraud and corruption that can occur in cultural management, emphasizing different situations of conflicts of interest, illustrating his presentation with various examples of malpractice that have ended up prosecuted.

The participation of the students was very intense and active, insisting on issues that have to do with their work experience in the field of cultural management and, in particular, the problems related to patronage, public procurement, value and traffic. of cultural assets.

Much of the debate among the students focused on the difference in problems and forms of management depending on whether cultural management was public or private management, and the differences in culture regarding cultural management and the social punishment of corruption between the different countries.

The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency concluded his speech by thanking the Polytechnic University of Valencia for the invitation and wishing all the students much success in their professional future as cultural managers.