ANAC: New Whistleblowing Report

Today, I formally filed a new whistleblowing report with ANAC – the Italian National Anti-Corruption Authority, under Legislative Decree nº 24/2023, which implements the "EU Whistleblower Protection Directive" (EU 2019/1937).

The new fact underlying this filing is particularly serious.

In August 2025, for the first time in nearly 25 years, Eni formally accepted an internal whistleblowing report submitted by me.

However, despite that formal acceptance, no substantive follow-up ever took place.

The company limited itself to a template-style response, without demonstrating any real investigation, without effective due diligence of the reported facts and, most importantly, without providing the investigation report, even after a formal request submitted to the DPO.

This is the core issue.

A whistleblowing report that is formally accepted but never effectively investigated may represent not only a procedural failure, but also a potential breach of the follow-up, transparency, and whistleblower protection duties established under both Italian and European law.

This was precisely the matter formally brought today before ANAC.

The filing also exposes the broader context:

✔️ the continued public availability, on Eni’s website, of the official “Questions and Answers before the 2017 Shareholders’ Meeting” document, containing false and harmful information;

✔️ the reputational and financial damages accumulated over the years;

✔️ and the history of three lawsuits (SLAPP) brought by the company against me (2010, 2017 and 2022), an element that further reinforces concerns regarding retaliation risk.

The formal protocol issued by ANAC represents, in my view, an important step not only in my personal case, but in the broader debate on:

📌 effectiveness of whistleblowing channels

📌 corporate accountability

📌 real whistleblower protection

📌 consistency between compliance certifications and actual corporate conduct

When a whistleblowing report is formally accepted, yet there is no evidence of a real investigation, the inevitable question becomes:

🛑 does the channel exist to uncover the truth, or merely to satisfy formal requirements?

We move forward.


✅ Learn more by accessing the Flinto Case:

1️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025);

2️⃣ Chronology of facts supported by documentary evidence.