Nov232022

Training in integrity. The FVMP staff receives the Valencian Antifraud Agency

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) and the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) continue their collaboration in prevention and training in integrity and the fight against corruption with a new training session.

The FVMP staff has participated in this new conference with the aim of approaching the necessary integrity strategies that each and every one of the public administrations must develop.

Víctor Almonacid, director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the AVAF gave the presentation “From anti-fraud plans to integrity plans” where he explained that by the new Law 1/2022, of Transparency of the Valencian Community it is mandatory that

  • the Valencian entities have ethical and conduct codes with a minimum legal content
  • the Valencian integrity system take into account in its design both the identification of the most relevant public identity risks and the prevention plans
  • and that public administrations adopt measures that promote a culture of planning and evaluation of services and public policies.

Amparo Martí, head of the Agency’s expert unit, announced the obligations related to the complaint mailboxes that all local entities of the Valencian Community must have and as the external complaint mailbox of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, complies as External mailbox for each and every one of the more than 500 local entities in the territory. To questions from the attendees, the mechanisms for the protection of whistleblowers and the current regulations on the matter were also addressed.

The attendees learned that the Agency provides legal advice to those who need it related to risks of fraud and corruption in the public administration.

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has publications and resources to contribute to the learning of personnel at the service of the public sector. Find out here:

The AVAF and the FVMP have agreed to continue collaborating in the dissemination and support of town halls through training sessions.

Nov212022

Management risks in the electoral period. The AVAF and the FVMP collaborate in the training of elected officials

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The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) and the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Province (FVMP) have held the conference “Management risks in the electoral period” aimed at elected officials at the MUVIM headquarters.

The training session was inaugurated by Tatiana Prades, Deputy Secretary General of the FVMP and Joan Llinares, Director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

The main conference of the day “Municipal public management in the electoral period. Main risks.” It was given by Víctor Almonacid, director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the AVAF.

Throughout the session, the speaker has shown that the key is to identify risks in municipal management and the first step in detecting these is to be aware of them. The recommendation “Catalogue of common risks in decision-making processes and some prevention mechanisms”  details them and specifies prevention mechanisms for the risks warned.

 

The Director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Agency stressed that institutional integrity is articulated as a counterweight to risks and made it clear that the Valencian Community has solid foundations to implement an integrity strategy.


Law 1/2022 of April 13 of the Generalitat of Transparency and Good Governance of the Valencian Community allows establishing solid foundations to implement an “Integrity Strategy”:

  • The promotion of the preparation and approval of risk prevention plans contrary to integrity based on self-diagnosis and identification of the most relevant risks in the organization.
  • Dedication and compatibility regime
  • Mechanisms of intention inhibition and recusal.
  • Protocols for the prevention of conflicts of interest
  • Declarations of activities, assets, rights and obligations.
  • Valencian Antifraud Agency.

 

Some of the most obvious risks for elected officials are related to Law 12/2018 on institutional advertising since the law prohibits, among other issues:

  • The party institutional advertising communication
  • The public acts of handing over the keys to make real estate by elected officials that will be carried out by the competent official personnel and without public staging.
  • The acts of laying the first stones or inauguration of the start of construction of works financed, totally or partially, with public funds by people with elected or high positions.

 

During the electoral period, the Institutional Advertising Law details that you can carry out institutional campaigns aimed at informing citizens about the voting: date, requirements, but it is prohibited

  • Acts of inauguration of public works or services or their projects, whatever the denomination used, without prejudice to the fact that said works or services may come into operation in said period, nothing prevents said works or services from coming into operation in said period.
  • Acts that contain allusions to the achievements obtained, financed directly or indirectly, by the powers, or that use images similar to those used in campaigns by the political entities concurrent to the elections.
  • Acts that contain allusions to the achievements obtained, financed directly or indirectly, by the powers, or that use images similar to those used in campaigns by the political entities concurrent to the elections.

Nov182022

The #DocufòrumAVAF again in the classrooms of the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia

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The activities of the Valencian Antifraud Agency in the universities of the Valencian Community are being more and more often. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia has included the university Docufòrum activity in collaboration with the AVAF in the Center Innovation Project (PIC).

The #DocufòrumAVAF is an activity aimed at promoting the social culture of civic ethics, public integrity, fraud prevention and rejection of corruption among students of all University degrees.

On this occasion, a #DocufòrumAVAF was held at the Faculty of Law, on Thursday, November 17, 2022, with the participation of 53 students from the Administrative Law II subject of the Law Degree, with the collaboration of the professor Reyes Marzal. Anselm Bodoque was responsible for the AVAF for energizing the session with the students.

After watching the documentaries «Corruption: Harmful organism» and «Conflicts of interest and public integrity», the students ask questions, focused on the origin and causes of corruption, its effect and costs, the perception of corruption in our society and with respect to other countries around us, what to do in cases of corruption.

Subsequently, the AVAF representative discusses with the students the issues raised in their questions and others also referred to on public ethics and integrity, as well as on prevention and civic training policies or on the functions and work carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.

The students especially insisted on the consequences of corruption in the institutions and in our society, the non-existence of a State Agency, the crimes of corruption. On the other hand, they delved into the different types of conflicts of interest, and how to proceed before them so that neither irregularities nor crimes occur.

The activity has been organized in collaboration with the University of Valencia, which we thank for its interest and willingness to help create a culture of public integrity and rejection of fraud and corruption.

If you are a University, Secondary or Baccalaureate teacher and you are interested in having the training activity “Docufòrum: Corruption, harmful organism” carried out in your subject, do not hesitate to contact the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency through from formation@antifraucv.es