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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: [email protected],
[email protected] 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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
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: [email protected]