In January 2024, while celebrating Eni’s ISO 37301:2021 Compliance Management System certification, Luca Franceschini - Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary of the Board Of Directors - stated:
‼️ “The certification represents further recognition of Eni’s commitment to promoting and fostering a culture of compliance, guiding corporate conduct and management to respect the values of integrity, fairness, transparency, and sustainability”.
He went even further:
‼️ “...leading to the establishment of an integrated and independent compliance function, focused exclusively on ethical matters, under the direct responsibility of the CEO”.
The statement is powerful.
The narrative is impeccable.
But the reality of my case tells a very different story.
In August 2025, when Eni accepted my formal whistleblowing report for the first time, the minimum expected from an internationally certified compliance system would have been a serious, independent, and document-driven due diligence process.
That did not happen.
There was no investigative depth consistent with the company’s public integrity narrative, nor the level of diligence required for a case involving:
✔️ a formal ethics complaint
✔️ prolonged reputational destruction
✔️ the maintenance of a false corporate narrative
✔️ damages accumulated over decades
✔️ the continued public availability of a harmful official document
The gap between public compliance rhetoric and the actual handling of sensitive reports is precisely where the credibility of internal systems is truly tested.
📌 Certifications matter.
But their real legitimacy is measured when a company is called upon to investigate, with independence and courage, difficult cases within its own power structure.
In my case, this was the test the system failed to pass.
✅ Learn more about my history with the Italian oil giant Eni:
1️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025);
2️⃣ Chronology of facts supported by documentary evidence.
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