Jun92022

The Observatori Ciutadà contra la Corrupció and the Agency sign a collaboration agreement to carry out joint actions for the next 4 years

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has signed a collaboration agreement with the Observatori Ciutadà contra la Corrupció, a civic association made up of different organizations such as Acció Cultural del País Valencià, Atelier, Ca Revolta, Societat Coral El Micalet, Escola Valenciana i Perifèries and the Plataforma Castelló per la Justícia i contra la Corrupció.

On behalf of the Observatori , Consuelo Vidal has signed the agreement and Joan Llinares has done so on behalf of the Agency and will be valid for 4 years.

The objective of the agreement is to establish a collaborative framework to develop different actions and activities for the fight against fraud and corruption and the promotion of good practices and ethics and public integrity.

Cooperate in training programs for technical, administrative and service personnel; organize seminars or conferences aimed at informing citizens, professionals and organizations of projects and measures that can help to disseminate crime prevention, as well as the fight against fraud and corruption.

Jun82022

Signing of an agreement with the City Council of Sant Vicent del Raspeig

The San Vicente del Raspeig City Council and the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) have sealed the first collaboration protocol between both institutions to start the development of different joint projects with the aim of reinforcing and uphold ethics and public integrity.

The document has been signed jointly by the mayor, Jesús Villar, and the director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, signing the action protocol. Likewise, the deputy director and legal services director of the AVAF, Teresa Clemente, the director of prevention and training, Víctor Almonacid, and different members of the municipal corporation were also present at the event.

The mayor, Jesús Villar, has highlighted that “from the City Council we work to combat corruption and bad practices. Of course, we believe that this agreement with the Agency, which we thank for its availability and predisposition to join forces, will allow us all to give the image that the residents of the municipality require, which is that there is neither corruption nor fraud in San Vicente del Raspeig”.

In turn, the director of the Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, stated that “the signing of this protocol allows us to unite a common project to build an ethical and public integrity framework that allows us to work on the prevention and fight against fraud and corruption. The objective is to help institutions to be able to control, prevent and avoid misconduct that diverts resources, offering both tools and advice”.

Jun82022

The 1st inter-university course on the prevention of corruption in public management, taught by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency in Valencian public universities, begins.

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The five Valencian public universities (Universitat de València, Politècnica de València, Miguel Hernández de Elche, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló and University of Alicante9) have launched, thanks to the collaboration between the AVAF Training Service and its training services, the first interuniversity course on the prevention of corruption and the fight against fraud in public management

The course will be taught by staff from the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and the Services Inspection of the Generalitat Valenciana over five days, where each of the universities will be the host throughout the months of the learning experience. .

On Tuesday, June 7, 2022, the course was inaugurated in a session chaired by Ángeles Solanes, vice-rector for Teaching Transformation and Lifelong Learning at the University of Valencia, and Joan Llinares, director of the AVAF, in the Assembly Hall of the Rectorate building of the UV.

The vice-rector Ángeles Solanes recognized the work of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency and thanked the institution for offering to participate in this course, aimed at PAS personnel and those who exercise responsibilities in governing bodies of Valencian public universities.

The director of the AVAF shared with those present the international context in which the fight against corruption arises, the existing European and international references, as well as the creation of the Agency, its legal nature, functions and most relevant aspects of the entity, like the 27 whistleblowers who hold AVAF protection status.

Anselm Bodoque, head of the Agency’s Training Service, focused the second conference of the day on the social, civil, political, economic and institutional costs produced by irregular practices in public administrations, as well as the negative effects that affect the entire public sector and citizens in general. To put an end to fraud, the main battle is in the mechanisms to improve institutional quality.

The next day of the 1st interuniversity course on “Prevention of corruption in public management” will take place at the Polytechnic University of Valencia on July 6, 2022. In this second session, the staff of the General Services Inspectorate of the Generalitat Valenciana will present the focus on the IGS methodology of the GVA for the preparation of risk exposure maps and risk self-assessment plans in the field of public procurement and personnel management.

*Images courtesy of UV