So far, I have told the story.From today onward, the documents will begin to speak for themselves.
But to understand the first of them, we need to go back to 2014.
That year, I had the opportunity to meet personally with Luigi Zingales, an independent member of Eni's Board of Directors and Professor at the University of Chicago.
Before we met here in Brazil, he had already received my Memorial and other documents related to the Flinto Case.
During our conversation, I explained in detail the facts, the chronology, and the body of documentary evidence I had gathered over more than a decade.
When I finished my account, he made a remark that I have never forgotten:
📌 "At Eni, I heard another version of your case".
I asked him what that version was.
His answer was brief:
📌 "I'll see what I can do to help you".
Two weeks later, the Italian press reported his resignation from Eni's Board of Directors.
According to those reports, the reason was "irreconcilable differences of opinion regarding the role of the Board of Directors in the management of the Company".
At that moment, I still did not know what the "other version" mentioned by Luigi Zingales actually was.
The answer would come only three years later.
In 2017, during Eni's General Shareholders' Meeting, the Company officially published the document "Questions & Answers before the General Shareholders' Meeting", containing its responses to the questions submitted by journalist and critical shareholder Mauro Meggiolaro, representing Fondazione Finanza Etica, an organization linked to Banca Etica.
It was in that document that, for the first time, I became aware of ENI's official version of the Flinto Case:
🛑 "Contrary to what Mr. Flinto believes [...] the former employee was dismissed together with other individuals guilty of unlawful conduct, for reticence, for breaching his duty of confidentiality, and for attempting to misuse ENI's Code of Ethics in order to obtain personal advantages from the Company".
That document became the center of every discussion that followed.
Years later, it became the basis for my formal request for rectification submitted to Eni's Data Protection Officer (DPO) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, subsequently, for the complaint I filed with Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (GPDP).
It is with this document that the next chapter of this series begins.
Because, from this point forward, the documents will speak for themselves.
To be continued on Tuesday.
✅ Learn more:
1️⃣ Questions & Answers before the General Shareholders' Meeting 2017;
2️⃣ Memorial submitted to Eni's Board of Directors;
3️⃣ Chronology of Events for the Reconstruction of the Facts.
