Monday, August 22, 2016

Involving the President of Italy in my case


If the Board of Eni respected the "Best Practices" of the Corporate Governance - reflected on values as honesty, integrity and transparency - and honored the words and spirit of the Code of Ethics of the company, the Chairman, the CEO and the other directors would be the first ones to emerge the "real truth" about the 15 years story fight of a whistleblower that was fired - in retaliation - after reporting a millionaire scheme of fraud and corruption in the Brazilian subsidiary of the Italian giant Eni.
As three generations of the Board of Eni pretended nothing happened - they spread a "lying version" of facts and keep in the Italian Court a "frivolous lawsuit", demanding an indemnity of US$ 30 million - this whistleblower sent a letter - through the Brazilian Embassy in Rome - to the Chief of State of Italy, the President Sergio Mattarella, so he demands from Eni an "Independent Investigative Auditing" about this case. And this is because the Italian government is the major shareholder of Eni.
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Member of the Board of Eni is under investigation



REUTERS' EXCLUSIVE:

Alexandro Profumo, member of the Board of the Italian giant Eni, is under investigation for alleged false accounting and market manipulation during the time in which he was a Chairman of the Monte do Paschi di Siena Bank, in Italy.

And now Board of Eni?


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Monday, August 08, 2016

Open Letter to the CEO of Enel



OPEN LETTER TO THE CEO OF ENEL - Mr. Francesco Starace.

The Italian market points you as the successor of ClaudioDescalzi to be in charge of the giant oil company. If this really happens, you will need to know my 15 years story fight against Eni to rescue and restore my name, my honor and my reputation unfairly depreciated. 

The Board of Eni will tell you the "lying version" that turns the whistleblower into the villain of this corporate story.
Access Eni's Whistleblower: 15 years in 15 paragraphs and get to know.

Douglas Linares Flinto
Chairman & CEO
Brazilian Business Ethics Institute





Monday, August 01, 2016

Eni's Whistleblower: 15 years in 15 paragraphs!



My story with the Italian giant and one of the largest companies of the planet began back in 2001 when I was an executive of Eni's Brazilian subsidiary and temporarily took over the main sales management of Agip Brazil. There, I received complaints of irregularities involving conflicts of interests, internal corruption, fraud, and even emission of "cold invoices". Respecting the determinations of Eni's Code of Ethics, I reported the misconducts and nonconformities with the words and spirit of the code, that as the company declares, is the guideline for all the six-legged dog's actions.

On the following weeks, little happened and I ended up getting fired. After invoking Agip Brazil's Committee of Ethics, I got an answer from the Brazilian operation saying that my resignation happened due to an "administrative and organizational restructuring" and not because of a "retaliation", as I stated.

It was evident that the millionaire scheme that I had reported had metastasized throughout the company, and in Agip Brazil's backstage, the top management, in collusion, ran the illegalities and illegal activities practiced in Eni's Brazilian subsidiary.

So I decided to write to the Board and to the company's main shareholders, including to the main one, the Italian Government. The PwC, which at that time was the auditing firm hired by Eni, also received a copy of the new corresponding item. It's the Board of Directors the highest authority inside and outside the company walls, the embodiment of the "Corporate Governance" and the "Big Boss" of all the executives, including the CEO. Besides, the Board is responsible for ensuring the Code of Ethics. Above all, it is the "Guardian of Ethics"!

The resignations at Agip Brazil continued until it reached the commercial management. A few months later, Eni announced to the market the sale of all the Brazilian assets to the state oil company Petrobras, currently involved in the largest corruption scandal in Brazil.

However, no contact was ever made with me, and Eni never answered any of my mails! On the contrary, after killing the "whistleblower" in Brazil, the company tried to do the same thing in Italy!

In 2010, Eni decided to file a civil lawsuit in the Court of Rome against me and the Brazilian Business Ethics Institute - an institution I founded in 2003 to promote Ethics in the business and student world - demanding an indemnity of 30 million Euros for damage caused by my libel or slander.

In this action, oddly enough, Eni states that all the facts alleged by me are untrue and that, in fact, the company made an undercover investigation in Brazil to ascertain any damage. And I, for not collaborating, I ceased the trusting relationship, resulting in my resignation.

Instead of Eni accepting its mistakes, ascertain its faults, enhance controls and honor its own Code of Ethics, the company chose to hide behind a "frivolous lawsuit" in an attempt to intimidate and silence me, and leave under the carpet the ills of its managements.

Fortunately, in late 2014, the judge ruled "groundless" Eni's lawsuit. The company didn't accept my proposal agreement, but preferred appeal the sentence.

I became a victim of my own report! Eni destroyed my professional career when it put me on the "black list" of all the companies operating in my country. And there's more! Eni is also responsible for the loss of my retirement.

In march, 2016 my story against the Italian giant Eni was published in an investigative book written by two Italian journalists (Andrea Greco and Giuseppe Oddo). This book is called The Parallel State: The first investigation on the Eni.  

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of my fight story against Eni, completed in August 2016, I created a petition at Change to request the Board of the company the compliance of their own Code of Ethics regarding my case

Now IIA Global will receive a complaint about the "non compliance” practiced by the members of the Internal Auditing Department of the Italian giant Eni, including the Senior Executive Vice-President of Internal Audit (and member of the executive committee of the IIA Italy), Mr. Marco Petracchini, because when an internal auditor does't fulfill the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) of the IIA Global nor its the IIA's Code of Ethics and presents a "lying version" of the results of an internal auditing in a "Frivolous Lawsuit" and also to the global market through the media. This professional may be terminated by IIA Global's Ethics Committee being subject to sanctions and appropriate punishments. This report will be based on the letter requires the Board of Eni to carry out an "Independent Investigative Audit" on my case, sent to the President of Italy (by the Ambassador of Brazil in Rome) and the Prime Minister (by the Senator Italo-Brazilian Fausto Longo). 

Despite everything, I will continue, until my last breath, with my personal quest to rescue and restore my name, my honor, my image and my reputation unfairly depreciated by the six-legged dog.

My fight against a giant continues!