The French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) is a service with national competence created by the law of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernization of economic life.

Placed with the Minister of Justice and the Minister in charge of the Budget, it helps the competent authorities and the people who are confronted with it to prevent and detect the facts of corruption, influence peddling, misappropriation, illegal taking of interest, embezzlement of public funds and favoritism. Its expertise may be requested by jurisdictions, large companies, administrations or even communities.

The AFA is headed by a magistrate of the judicial order outside the hierarchy, Charles Duchaine, appointed by decree of the President of the Republic for a non-renewable period of six years. The French Anti-Corruption Agency replaced the Central Service for the Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) while benefiting from a strengthening of its powers.

The French Anti-Corruption Agency has administrative powers of control enabling it to verify the reality and efficiency of the anti-corruption compliance mechanisms implemented , in particular by companies, State administrations or local authorities. This control concerns State administrations or local authorities as well as economic actors (private or public companies).