Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency

The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency is an independent public entity that has its own legal personality and full capacity to act for the fulfillment of its purposes, is attached and accountable to the Corts. Its staff are career civil servants who hold the status of public authority when exercising investigative powers. The Agency is created to prevent and eradicate fraud and corruption in Valencian public institutions and to promote integrity and public ethics. In addition to the promotion of a culture of good practices and rejection of fraud and corruption in the design, execution and evaluation of public policies, as well as in the management of public resources. Among the functions of the Agency is also the protection of people who report or denounce corrupt behavior, passing, if necessary, to the sanctioning power to make this protection effective.