Saturday, April 09, 2022

Eni: reprisals, victimization and bad faith


In this MEMORIAL describes my story with the Italian oil giant since 2001, when I was unfairly fired — after denouncing a million-dollar “scheme” of fraud and acts of corruption, in compliance with the company’s Code of Ethics — going through the systemic imposition of “reprisals” and the strategy of “victimization” instrumentally engineered until the withdrawal of the “good offices” — offered by NCP Brazil, due to non-compliance with the “OCED Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises” — in march 2022.

The facts described (and the documents, incorporated in dozens of web links), are full proof that ENI is not only responsible for unjustly denigrating my name, my honor, and my reputation during all these years, but it is also responsible for destroying my professional career and taking my retirement out of my hands. As if that were not enough, ENI is not fulfilling the commitments assumed to its Stakeholders through its own policies and codes, declarations, norms, and procedures, as well as the international pacts, conventions, principles, and guidelines accepted and followed by ENI, including, the Italian government, the company's controlling shareholder, who appears in many of these international commitments, as an adherent, signatory or ratifying party, including United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

In these more than 20 years, ENI has never carried out a “due diligence” on my case in light of the commitments mentioned here, even though it had asked me for a “proposal for amicable settlement” — in November 2020, through the Italian Ambassador in Brazil — and never having responded to this proposal, not even after being questioned by a critical shareholder during the company's Shareholders' Meeting, held in Rome, in May 2021.

In this document mentioned here, you will know my expectations, not only regarding ENI itself, but also regarding international institutions and other Stakeholders, including the Italian government, the company's controlling shareholder. And that's because, even with the best practices, a company can cause or contribute to causing negative and harmful consequences that it did not foresee or was unable to avoid.