Jun12022

X Meeting of the Network of Anti-Corruption Offices and Agencies of Spain

The Agency has participated in the X Meeting of the Network of Anti-Fraud Offices and Agencies of Spain that was held on May 31, 2022 at the headquarters of the Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council.

Within the framework of this meeting, the situation of the processing of the Draft Transposition of the EU Directive 2019/1937 has been addressed and Red GlobE has been informed by the head of the National Anti-Fraud Coordination Service of the General Intervention of the State Administration (SNCA).

The Municipal Office against Fraud and Corruption of the Madrid City Council also participated in the meeting; the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Transparency Agency; the Directorate of the Analysis Service and Ethics Mailbox of the Barcelona City Council; the Antifrau Office of Catalonia; the Office for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption in the Balearic Islands; the Audience of Accounts of the Canary Islands; the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption; the Council of Accounts of Galicia; the National Antifraud Coordination Service of the General Intervention of the State Administration (SNCA); the Independent Office for the Regulation and Supervision of Contracting (OIRESCON); the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC).

Jun12022

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has participated in the training courses of the 60th promotion of the tax career

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency has participated together with the offices and agencies for the fight against fraud and corruption in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Andalusia in the training activity “Crimes against the Public Administration-Anti-Fraud Offices”, in the training courses of the 60th promotion of the fiscal career to be held at the Center for Legal Studies.

The 60th promotion consists of 127 interns, 94 donors (74%) and 34 men (26%), and has an average age of 29.5 years.

Jun12022

First course of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency with the Provincial Council of Castelló: “Prevention of risks of corruption in public management”

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On May 23 and 30, the online sessions of the first course prepared and taught by the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency included in the training offer of the Castelló Provincial Council were held. The 6-hour online course, aimed at officials from the Castelló Provincial Council and the province’s municipalities, has had AVAF staff as teachers.

The director of the Agency, Joan Llinares, was in charge of opening the course with a reflection on the risks of corruption in public administrations. For his part, the head of the Training service, Anselm Bodoque, in the first session of the course presented the Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption in the Valencian Community: origin, functions and independence. And in the second part of the session, he analyzed the costs of corruption and public policies against corruption in Europe and Spain, as well as an approach to institutional quality studies.

The second session of the course was given by the Agency’s training techniques to present the anti-corruption cycle. Pilar Moreno focused on prevention, the importance of public integrity and control systems in public institutions. Marita Oliver dedicated the second part of the session to the contingency of the anti-corruption cycle, as well as to presenting the AVAF complaints mailbox as an external channel for the administrations of the Valencian Community.

Thanks to the collaboration of the Castelló Provincial Council Training Service, the Agency has had the opportunity to share with public employees from the local administration of the province of Castellón and the Provincial Council itself, the importance of integrity plans, the institution to fight corruption and the anti-fraud cycle.