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The Valencian Antifraud Agency signs an agreement with the College of Registrars to be able to consult the ownership of the commercial companies

Valencia, March 7, 2022.– The Territorial Dean of Valencia of the Association of Property and Mercantile Registrars, Carlos Javier Orts Calabuig, and the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares Gómez, have signed this morning in the headquarters of the College of Registrars a collaboration agreement between both institutions.
The purpose of the agreement is to regulate consultations by the Agency of the information held by the College of Registrars on the actual ownership of the entities registered in the commercial registers.
The access options set out in the agreement regarding commercial records will be of two types. The first access option will be through the web service where the consultation and reception of information is carried out through the AVAF’s own management applications through automated web services.
The second of the access options will be through the Portal of Real Ownerships where the staff of the Agency will be able to realize individual consultations by means of a digital certificate recognized by the Official College of Registrars.
There will be three types of information inquiries that can be made. The first of these aims to know the real owners of a company by introducing the NIF of the company. The second type of consultation will be to know the companies of which a natural person is the real owner; and the third will focus on the companies of which a company is in the chain of control of a real owner.
The Territorial Dean of Valencia, Carlos Javier Orts, explained that the aim is to “put at the service of society essential information for the fight against money laundering and contribute to it being efficient and able to provide the results that the society is waiting “.
For his part, the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, pointed out that “for the Agency the signing of this collaboration agreement with the College of Registrars is a very important step as it will allow us to access to information that is critical to many of the research we conduct. “
“Collaboration between different institutions sharing information is essential because it is precisely with this crossover of data and checks that we can detect acts of fraud and corruption while allowing us to detect possible conflicts of interest,” added Llinares.

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Corruption in public administrations to debate in the AVAF and SFPIE course of the University of Valencia.

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On March 2, the fourth of the sessions of the course “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management” took place for the PAS staff of the University of Valencia. It was of a practical nature.

The format of the session was that of a workshop that combined docu-forums, questions, debate and collective reflection, in which the students participated very actively throughout the day. The session was developed by the technical team of the AVAF Training Service, formed by Anselm Bodoque, Marita Oliver and Pilar Moreno.

“Corruption: a harmful organism”, the Pandora Box documentary, produced through crowdfunding, was viewed by the attendees, who were very interested in situations such as the one reflected in the section “The Solitude of the Financial Controller” and in the experiences of whistleblowers of known cases of corruption.

Throughout the session, the students’ reflections were channeled through gamification tools that allowed ordering participation and contributed to multiplying the responses and views of the problems raised anonymously.

The creation of “a game of random glances” was one of the outstanding phrases of the documentary that included the presentation given by Cristina Fernández González, a researcher on the protection of whistleblowers at the University of Salamanca, who participated in the workshop with a presentation that she had title Detection or prevention of risks?

In his speech, through a criminological approach, he exposed the importance of informal surveillance that generates a preventive work environment and alerts that does not exclude formal surveillance, and that can generate stronger institutions and an effective organizational and prevention culture. .

The docuforum “Planning of public management: a tool of good governance” prepared by the TAU of the University of Valencia, in collaboration with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, and the Vice-rectorate for Territorial Projection and Society of the UV was the second of the documentaries viewed by PAS staff selected to participate in the course.

The joint reflection after the documentary made it possible to highlight the importance of planning in public administration, since it allows taking conscious measures with a strategic vision, organizing resources and avoiding waste, as well as better accountability.

Download the general recommendation Planning: a key tool to prevent the risks of corruption in organizations.

https://www.antifraucv.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Recomendacion_planificacion-cast-1.pdf.