Oct22024

AVAF training on public integrity policies and fraud risk prevention from IVAP

Valencia, 1st October 2024.- The Valencian Institute of Public Administration (IVAP) has counted, one more year, with training given by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF). The course ‘Public Integrity Policies and Fraud and Corruption Risk Prevention’, in its second edition, has been given in the online modality, with a duration of 20 hours and by public employees of the Agency itself.


The AVAF training, given in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Public Administration, the body responsible for the training policy of the personnel in the service of the different public administrations of the Valencian Community, focused on the institutional system against corruption in Spain and in the Valencian Community, the obligation to develop the Law 2/2023, together with the preventive tools of urgent implementation in public institutions.


The training session began on Tuesday 17 September with contributions from the Directorate of Legal Affairs on the protection of informants. Isabel Climent, lawyer of the AVAF, presented Law 2/2023, regulating the protection of persons who inform on regulatory infractions and the fight against corruption.


Araceli Chana, head of unit of the Directorate, explained the protection system developed by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.


On Thursday 19 September, the Directorate of Analysis and Investigation of the AVAF presented the regulation of the information systems included in Law 2/2023. Miguel Furió, Head of the Analysis and Investigation Service, showed the existence of internal and external channels and the Agency’s complaint management procedure.


Pilar Moreno, AVAF training technician, in the third session of the IVAP course, specified the need for public integrity plans in public institutions and presented the numerous risk prevention initiatives in public management.


The head of the Agency’s Training Service, Anselm Bodoque, developed the consequences of corruption and anti-fraud policies in the international, national and regional context in the session on Thursday 26 September.


The active participation of the students throughout the course culminated with the workshop on the ‘Price of alerting’ and the appropriate management of conflict of interest. Facilitated by Anselm Bodoque and Pilar Moreno, the gift and hospitality policy, as well as the importance of integrity training, allowed for a lively and enriching debate among the participants of the training action.

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.