On February 20, the director of the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community, Joan Llinares, appeared before the Economy, Budget and Finance Commission of the Corts Valencianes for the presentation of the Annual Report. AVAF 2022 activity.
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Valencia.- February 7, 2024
5 local entities from across the Valencian Community have been the protagonists of the new online training of the Training Service of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.
The town councils of Crevillent and Jacarilla, from the province of Alicante; The Puig de Santa María from the province of Valencia and the Vall d’Uixò together with the Intermunicipal Association of Alto Palancia from the province of Castellón were the local entities participating in the online conference “Integrity, public ethics and prevention of fraud in the administration local” organized by the AVAF.
On Wednesday, February 7, for 4 hours, more than 90 public employees from the five local entities of the Valencian Community attended a day to learn more about the institutional integrity system in our region, as well as the functions of the Agency, through the presentation of Anselm Bodoque Arribas, head of the AVAF Training Service.
The importance of the culture of public integrity and the risks of fraud and corruption that may exist in the local administration were addressed by Pilar Moreno, the Agency’s training technician. The cycle of anti-fraud measures, with special attention to the detection, correction and prosecution phases, were presented by Marita Oliver, AVAF training technician. During their session, emphasis was placed on the AVAF reporting channel as an external channel for the local entities of the Valencian Community.
The online day ended with a workshop on the management of conflict of interest in local administration, facilitated by the AVAF Training Service. The active participation of public employees at the event made it possible to know that the lack of planning is the most noted risk that must be taken into account when making decisions in the local administration.
The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, with this new training activity, maintains its commitment to training in integrity and prevention of corruption for personnel serving the Valencian local administration.
If you wish to have specialized training in ethics and public integrity in your public administration, do not hesitate to write to formacion@antifraucv.es
València, 7 February 2024.- The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, has appeared online before the Basque Parliament’s Committee on Institutions, Public Governance and Security to make contributions in relation to the draft Transparency Law of the Basque Country.
The hearing, held at the request of the Basque Parliament, is part of the process of processing the aforementioned law that provides for the creation of the Basque Transparency Authority. An Authority that, beyond its functions and its profile as a guardian of transparency in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, stands out as the highest public authority that culminates in the so-called external channel for the reception of informants or whistleblowers, in compliance with Law 2/2023, of 20 February, regulating the protection of people who report regulatory infringements and the fight against corruption.
The contributions made by the director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, have dealt with the need to guarantee the independence of the Authority that is planned to be created and for this they have proposed the law for the creation of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency as a model.
Law 11/2016, of 28 November, of the Generalitat Valenciana, establishes that the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community is attached to Les Corts. It is configured as an entity, with its own legal personality and full capacity to act for the fulfillment of its purposes. Therefore, a dependency of the legislative body is established, in contrast to the proposal of the Basque bill that establishes that the dependence of the Basque Transparency Authority will be on the executive body.
In the same vein, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has proposed the formula of a majority of 3/5 of the Autonomous Parliament for the election of the management of the aforementioned Authority, as established by Valencian legislation, as opposed to the direct election by the Basque Government, which proposes the Basque Transparency Bill.
For his part, Joan Llinares, stressed after his appearance “we are grateful to the Basque Parliament for inviting us to make contributions to a bill that is so relevant for the promotion of integrity and public ethics in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country. It is also an endorsement of the work carried out by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency since its creation after the approval of Law 11/2016”.
