Madrid, 27 September 2024.- The Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, was in charge of the inauguration of the course “Approach to fraud in public sector procurement” that took place at the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office in Madrid. In this act, the Attorney General announced the creation of two new specialized units to combat corruption and valued the collaboration that his institution maintains with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency.
On this occasion, the Agency has collaborated with the presentations “Introduction to public sector contracting” and “Authorisation and control of expenditure in the public sector” given by the head of the Agency’s Support and Expert Specialist unit, Amparo Martí.
The course was directed by the prosecutor Jordi Casas and was organised by the Technical Secretariat of the State Attorney General’s Office, addressing aspects such as the crime of embezzlement after the reform of the Criminal Code of LO 14/2022, the authorisation and control of spending in the public sector or administrative prevarication.
The course, which lasted 2 days and in which 50 prosecutors from all over Spain participated, also had as speakers the prosecutor of the Technical Secretariat of the FGE Antonio Colmenarejo, as well as the professor of Criminal Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha Adán Nieto, and the professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Complutense University Íñigo Ortiz de Urbina.
Press release from the Attorney General’s Office:
Photo: State Attorney General’s Office.
