Dec142018

The Antifraud Agencies and Offices of Spain hold their second meeting in Valencia

The meeting, organized by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, has brought together the heads of the anti-corruption organizations of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Galicia, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​and the Valencian Community itself.

The meeting was structured around a presentation on gender quotas and corruption and a working session on the use of new technologies applied to the prevention of corruption.

The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community has organized the II Meeting of the Network of Offices and Anticorruption Agencies of Spain. The meeting took place in the Sala Vinatea of ​​Les Corts Valencianes and was attended by the Hon. Mr. Enric Xavier Morera Català, President of Les Corts, who welcomed the attendees. The conference was opened by the Director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares.

The meeting of the Anticorruption Agencies and Offices has brought together the representatives of the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community, Joan Llinares; the Director of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia, Miguel Ángel Gimeno; the Director of the Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption in the Balearic Islands, Jaime Far; the Counselor of the Galician Accounts Council, Beatriz Rodríguez; the Director of the Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council, Carlos Granados; the Head of the Active Advertising Section and Transparency Portal of the Transparency Agency of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Joan Cotxà, and the Director of Analysis of the Office of Transparency and Good Practices of the Barcelona City Council, Rosa María Sánchez.

During the morning, Pablo Fernández-Vázquez, professor from the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburg (USA), gave the presentation “Gender Quotas and Corruption” which was followed by a debate among the participants. This was followed by a working session on the use of new technologies applied to the prevention of corruption. In this session, the Aletheia Project was presented, a system to help traceability of spending in public procurement, which has been carried out by the staff of the Information Service of the Valencian Antifraud Agency and the systems engineer Hervé Falciani.

This meeting reinforces the ties of collaboration between the anti-corruption agencies and offices of the Spanish state, and gives continuity to the first meeting that was held in Barcelona on June 29, sponsored by the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia. In fact, the main agreement reached at that meeting was to create a stable network, with periodic meetings of all existing anti-corruption agencies to share common strategies to fight this phenomenon and share information. Said agreement is circumscribed within a framework in which the lack of a real will to create a National Plan against Corruption and an effective protection of whistleblowers is confirmed.

València, 14 de diciembre de 2018

 
Fecha de publicación: 14/12/2018

Dec72018

Act to commemorate the United Nations World Day Against Corruption

The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community, an independent body attached to Les Corts, was created to prevent and eradicate fraud and corruption in Valencian public institutions and to promote integrity and ethics public. Also to promote a culture of good practices and the rejection of fraud and corruption in the design, execution and evaluation of public policies, as well as in the management of public resources as established in its creation Law.

Next December 10, on the occasion of the celebration of the United Nations World Day Against Corruption, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency joins the group of entities of all kinds that celebrate this day under the motto «United against Corruption for the development of Peace and Security ».

For this reason, an event will be held in the auditorium of the ADEIT Foundation in which two lectures will be delivered by Magistrate Luis Manglano and Engineer Ms. Gracia Ballesteros who will discuss, on the occasion of this world day, how corruption It affects us all, taking into consideration that for its prevention and the fight against it it is necessary to apply a comprehensive approach. This event will also be transmitted in streaming through the Youtube channel of the Valencian Antifraude Agency and can be seen through its website.

The United Nations Convention against Corruption, in force since December 2003, is the first binding international instrument to combat corruption and constitutes a unique mechanism to tackle this global problem. Currently, the Convention has 177 States parties, which means that the majority of the United Nations member states have joined the fight.

As the United Nations itself states: “Corruption undermines the ability of governments to serve citizens by corroding the rule of law, public institutions and trust in leaders. Corruption acts as a brake on development and denies millions of people around the world the prosperity, rights, services and jobs they desperately need and deserve.

Valencia, December 5, 2018

Fecha de publicación: 07/12/2018

Nov212018

Inauguration of the course on “Integrity and prevention in public procurement in the Valencian Community”

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, has inaugurated today the course “Integrity and prevention in public contracting in the Valencian Community”, within the framework of the Training Plan for Public Employees at the Service of the Generalitat, and in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Public Administration.

The course will have the participation as teachers of:

  • Teresa Clemente García, Director of Legal Affairs of the Agency
  • Silvia Vèrnia Trillo, Director of Prevention, Training and Documentation of the Agency.
  • Agustí Cerrillo Martínez, Professor of Administrative Law at the Open University of Catalonia.
  • Francesc Xavier Padrós Castillón, Department of Constitutional Law of the University of Barcelona.
  • Ángeles Jareño Leal, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Valencia.

This first edition will take place in the Escuela Valenciana de Estudios en Salud, C / Juan de Garay, 21, in Valencia, between November 20 and 30.

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