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Reporting Suspected Fraudsand Corruption

Ing. Želmíra Hybská

Central Contact Point for OLAFSection of Control and Fight against Corruption

Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic

• Resolution of the Slovak Government No. 1133 of 28 November 2001 on the establishment of the Central Contact Point for OLAF in the SR

• established: 1 January 2002

• legal framework

Central Contact Point for OLAF AFCOS SR

• co-ordinating service for fighting against frauds in Slovakia – AFCOS• ensuring and co-ordinating the protection of financial interests of the EU

in the Slovak Republic• co-ordinating the activities of the AFCOS network partners on the

national level• providing assistance to OLAF:

- contact point for OLAF in the SR- providing support in administrative investigations- collecting and reporting irregularities - other tasks (GAF, COCOLAF, OAFCN)

Tasks of the Central Contact Point for OLAF

Tasks of the Central Contact Point for OLAF

• carrying out controls

• treating the submissions

• providing information on the protection of financial interests of the EU to the public

• training activities on the protection of EU’s financial interests

• conceptual, methodological and legislative activities in the field of the protection of EU’s financial interests

Basic document

• approved by Resolution of the Slovak Government No. 547 of 27 June 2007

• updates: in 2009 and 2012

• Parts of the National Strategy- Manual for the Cooperation of AFCOS Network Partners- Manual for Reporting Irregularities- Action Plan to the National Strategy for the protection of EU’s Financial

Interests on the Slovak Republic

National Strategy for the Protection of EU’s Financial Interests in the Slovak Republic

Objectives of the National Strategy

• to ensure a consistent protection of the EU’s financial interests in the SR as required by Article 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU

• to increase public trust in the Slovak Republic’s institutions and bodies

• to assure the public that the money of the EU and the money of its taxpayers are spent and used properly

• prevention

• detection and investigation

• corrective action and sanctions

Pillars of the National Strategy

• for more information see: http://www.olaf.gov.sk/• reporting through e-mail: nezrovnalosti@vlada.gov.sk,

afcossr@vlada.gov.skreporting in writing to: Úrad vlády SR

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reporting personally

Reporting suspected frauds and irregularities

Calendar yearNumber

of submissions

How individual submissions were treated

Handled by CCP OLAF

Audit Authority

Procurement Office

National Criminal

Agency/ Prosecutor’s

General Office

Supreme Auditing

Office

Other state administration

body

2008 2 2

2009 10 3 3 4

2010 19 5 1 1 4 8

2011 44 4 4 8 3 1 24

2012 52 11 6 7 28

2013 64 16 8 7 1 2 302014

by 12/03/2014 7 2 1 1 3

Overview of submissions

Analysis provided information Identification of the competent authority

Retrospective check of the selected

solution

Treating the submissions

Related to the EU fund?

- Control by the Slovak

Government Office

- Control or investigation

by other body

- Control by the Slovak

Government Office

- Control or investigation

by other body

Feed-back given to the reporting subject

Reporting irregularities at the national level in SF and CF

Detected irregularity

Beneficiary Managing authority Intermediate body Paying agency Certifying authority

Certifying authority (Section for EU Funds, the Finance Ministry)

Auditing Authority and cooperating bodies Supreme Auditing Office of the SR, Public

Procurement Office and Slovak Government Office

Audit EC, EDA a external auditors

Unit Central Contact Point for OLAF of the Section for Control and Fight against Corruption (Slovak Government Office)

OLAF EC

Reporting irregularities to OLAF

Calendar year

Total number Of whichIrregularities resulted in

criminal prosecution

Reporting Irregularities in the reporting Initial reporting New

irregularities IRQ3 IRQ5

2011 144 1 062 110 186 1 1

2012 337 485 228 298 6 0

2013 340 453 175 212 5 0

Total: 821 2000 513 696 12 1

Reporting of suspected crimes

E-mail box for reporting suspected crimes affecting EU’s financial interests – the box set up by National anti-Corruption Service in cooperation with CCP OLAF infoirq@minv.sk

Calendar year 2011 2012 2013

Number of reported cases 4 0 26

Of which

Unsubstantiated infromation 3 0 22

Substantiated information 1 0 4

Prosecution initiated 1 0 1

Criminal proceedings 2011 2012 2013

Order issued to open judicial enquiry 50 77 64

Order to bring charges (number of criminal acts) 40 51 33

Number of persons charged with offences 56 65 46

Discontinued prosecution 6 19 22

Number of cases completed by conviction 23 27 32

Overview of criminal proceedings

Corruption – submissions in writing

Calendar year Submissions

Forwarded to Anti-Corruption Service/National Criminal Agency

Forwarded to other body Deferred

2011 84 20 35 29

2012 47 10 27 10

2013 33 18 5 10

Total: 164 48 67 49

Submissions in writing:

• By regular post: Office of the Goverment of the Slovak Republic• e-mail to bpk@vlada.gov.sk

Corruption – anti-corruption line

• set up in May 2011 at Information Centre of the Slovak Government Office, as of 1/1/2013 operational at the Control and anti-Corruption Unit

• telephone number: 0850 111 001

• operational on working days from 8:30 to 14:30

• partially charged - phone calls within Slovakia as well as local calls

• for reporting suspected corruption

Anti-Corruption Line – overview of suspicions

Overview from 18/05/2011 to 31/12/2013

Calendar year Total number of suspicions

of which anonymous

Of total:

Forwarded toNational Criminal

Agency (Anti-Corruption

Service)

Forwarded to other public

administration bodies

Deferred

2011 134 49 31 32 71

2012 25 7 10 5 10

2013 - - - - -

Total: 159 56 41 37 81

Thank you for your attention

Ing. Želmíra Hybská

Head of Unit Unit Central Contact Point for OLAFSection for Control and Fight against CorruptionOffice of the Government of the Slovak RepublicNámestie Slobody 1813 70 Bratislava

Tel. 02/572 95 587e-mail: zelmira.hybska@vlada.gov.sk