Ep79 - Eni was waiting for a settlement proposal

In the previous episode, I showed how Italian diplomacy entered the Flinto Case.

After my message was forwarded to the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry, his then Chief of Staff, Ettore Sequi, referred the Flinto Case to the Italian Embassy in Brazil.

On November 10, 2020, Carlo Jacobucci, Economic Counsellor in Brazil, wrote on behalf of the then Ambassador Francesco Azzarello:

🔹 “We will contact Eni regarding the matter and, as soon as we receive a response, we will contact you”.

The Embassy therefore informed me that it would contact Eni.

Just over two weeks later, something happened.

📌 November 26, 2020.

I spoke with Ambassador Francesco Azzarello.

During that conversation, he informed me that he could not take the Flinto Case to the Italian Prime Minister, as doing so was outside the scope of his role.

But there was something else.

And it could change the course of this story.

According to what Ambassador Azzarello told me following the Embassy’s contact with the company:

🔴 Eni was waiting for a proposal for an amicable settlement.

After almost two decades of conflict, that information had a special significance for me.

🔹 In 2015, following the first decision of the Civil Court of Rome, my lawyers had already sought an amicable settlement.

🔹 In 2018, during Eni’s Annual General Meeting, critical shareholder Mauro Meggiolaro, representing Fondazione Finanza Etica, had publicly offered to mediate an attempt to resolve the dispute between the parties.

The meeting never took place.

🔹 In 2020, a court-referred mediation in Rome had also ended without an agreement.

But now there was a new element:

🔹 according to the information conveyed to me by the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Eni was waiting for an amicable settlement proposal.

I decided to submit one.

📌 December 18, 2020.

Through my Italian lawyer, a proposal would be formally submitted.

And then a new wait would begin.

25 years later, my request remains the same:

🔴 That Eni allow a truly independent investigation into the Flinto Case, examining the facts, the documents, and the different versions of my dismissal presented by the company itself over all these years.

I am not asking anyone to believe me. I am asking them to examine the documents before reaching an independent conclusion.

📌 NEXT EPISODE:

THE SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL.


❎ Learn more:

1️⃣ Correspondence with the Italian Embassy in Brazil (November 2020):
🔹 Original in Portuguese
🔹 English Translation

2️⃣ Memorial — The Flinto Case

3️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of Events