Sumar proposes creating a National Award for whistleblowers of corruption and urges the development of the law that protects them

Calls for supporting the creation of internal reporting channels in public and private entities and promoting incentives to carry them out.

MADRID, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Sumar considers it urgent that the Government now implement all the measures provided for in the Law for the Protection of Corruption Whistleblowers, approved just a year ago, and has also suggested the creation of an annual National Award to recognize to people who warn about serious corruption.

This is stated by the Izquierda Unida deputy and one of Sumar's deputy spokespersons in Congress, Enrique Santiago, in a non-law proposal registered for debate in the Justice Commission of the Lower House.

Santiago highlights the transposition of the European directive on the protection of corruption whistleblowers as an important milestone and remembers that it was only rejected by the PP and Vox. But he emphasizes that, a year later, the time has come to implement the rule in its full extent.

Thus, in its initiative, reported by Europa Press, it urges the Government to approve "as soon as possible" the royal decree on the Statute of the Independent Authority for the Protection of Informants, so that it can begin to function by deploying the protection measures that The law also contains sanctions for entities that fail to comply, which, remember, can reach one million euros.

This rule obliges public and private entities to create an internal information channel that guarantees that the communications presented can be treated effectively by people trained in the matter, that those who raise them are taken care of and that measures are taken against them. those who have committed irregularities, including possible retaliation against whistleblowers.

In this context, Santiago considers it essential that the State supports, through information campaigns, these public and private organizations in the activation of these internal channels and in the training of the people responsible for them.

Likewise, it is committed to the approval of incentives for reporting in public entities "so that the person reporting corruption is perceived as a model, without this meaning revealing the identity of the reporting person without their express consent."

Furthermore, to encourage complaints, Santiago suggests the convenience of the Ministry of Justice creating the National Award for whistleblowers "in a selfless manner and facing possible retaliation, uncover especially serious cases of corruption."