Question 11 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 11" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 11: One version is more harmful and damaging than the other.

In 16 years Eni presented three different versions on my dismissal, se equivocando, at each new version, the facts that originally motivated the complaints lodged by me. It is easily noted that one version was more harmful and damaging than the other.

In the 1st Version, the company doesn’t mention the "complaints" made by me and nor does it mention that my dismissal in Brazil was “unfair”, claiming that it was only a simple and ordinary "administrative and organizational restructuring". In the 2nd Version, I "did not collaborate" and had a "reticent stance" when Eni carried out "secret investigations" in Brazil. And, surprisingly, in the 3rd Version, the company says that I was criminally involved in the scheme of internal fraud and corruption (which I denounced), and that my dismissal occurred along with other actors of "illegal behavior".

In addition, Eni states that I didn’t preserved "confidentiality", and of being an "opportunistic" person because I had used Eni's Code of Ethics (which I fulfilled in full) to build an untrue story with the intention of obtaining financial advantages of Eni.

It is to be noted that in all those years Eni doesn’t admit its “mistakes” and “errors” towards me. It is easily noted that I: (a) simply complied with the determinations of Eni’s Code of Ethics; (b) that I was the "whistleblower" who stripped away the dark facts that were happening in the backstage of Eni Brazil; (c) that I denounced a millionaire fraud and corruption scheme at Eni's Brazilian subsidiary, providing the company with the necessary measures to correct such non-conformities with the Code of Ethics and to stop the millionaire deviations in the coffers of Eni’s Brazil; (d), nor did it finally admit that I was dismissed “unjustly” when I should have been “protected” by the instruments present in Eni's Code of Ethics.

Questions 11:

11-A) Why did Eni, in 16 years, presented three different “versions” about my dismissal?

11-B) Why with each new version was Eni more harmful and damaging?

11-C) Why doesn’t Eni admit that I am a “whistleblower”? Why doesn’t Eni admit that I protected the name, the image, the assets and the reputation of the company by reporting a millionaire scheme of fraud and corruption in Eni’s Brazilian operation? Why doesn’t Eni admit that, because of my complaint, Eni was able to annihilate the said scheme and stop the looting of the company’s coffers in Brazil? Why doesn’t Eni admit that my dismissal in Brazil was “unjust”?

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

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Question 10 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 10" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 10: The Third Version of my dismissal 

In April 2017, Mr. Mauro Meggiolaro, as "Critical Shareholder" of Eni (shareholder Fondazione Finanza Etica - Gruppo Banca Etica) took my case to the Eni Shareholders’ Meeting. 

Under Italian law, Mr. Meggiolaro wrote 10 (ten) questions about my history (Doc. 43-A). These questions would have to be answered by the Board of Eni. However, the members of the Board of Directors of the company did not answer to the questions that were individually formulated to them and preferred to respond in a long text (Doc. 43-B). In this text, Eni wrote a "new version" (The Third Version) about my dismissal.

"The former employee was fired together with other actors of unlawful behavior, by reticence, for having violated the obligation of confidentiality and by trying to use instrumentally Eni's Code of Ethics to gain personal advantages of the company".

This was the THIRD VERSION of my dismissal without Eni having submitted one single proof on its charges.

In fact, Eni tried to prove what the company said. In this same document Eni also says: 

“Contrary to his belief, from the investigations performed by Eni, following the notices received in 2002, it emerged that, as reported by the Board of Statutory Auditors of Eni SpA in the Shareholders’ Meeting Report included in the Eni 2002 Financial Statements”. 

But, this “Eni 2002 Financial Statements” has 354 pages and there is no mention of my case (Doc. 43-C). 

Questions 10:

10-A) Eni presented the “third version” about my dismissal. The company tried to prove its claim by citing “Eni 2002 Financial Statements”. This document is no longer available on the company’s website. I found it doing a Google search. In the 354 pages of this official document there is no mention about my case! Why does Eni claims something about me that is not the truth? 

10-B) What is the company’s intention to quote an official document to try to make prove, knowing that there is no mention about my case? Doesn’t this attitude demonstrates Eni’s “bad faith” regarding my case, and the only intention is to denigrate and discredit me? 

I am #Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

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Question 09 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 09" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 09: My story published in an “Investigative Book”

In March 2016, in the year that my story with Eni would complete 15 years, two renowned Italian journalists (Mr. Andrea Greco and Mr. Giuseppe Oddo) published my story in an “investigative book” (Doc. 36). This work entitled “The Parallel State: The first investigation against Eni” (Doc. 37) became, in a few weeks, a “bestseller” in Italy. 

Mr. Greco wrote me that: “The authors decided to include your story because, after reading most of the documents you sent and talking with their sources, they convinced themselves that the story had roots, and that was right and interesting to include it in the context of “Stato parallelo” (Doc. 37-A).

Questions 09:

9-A) After an exhaustive research of nearly five years, the journalists mentioned above published the first investigative book on the last 25 years of the management of Eni. It was narrated several cases of corruption. Even though the book “Eni: The Parallel State” became a “best-seller” in Italy, Eni didn’t dispute a single paragraph of the book much less filed a lawsuit against its authors. Does it means that the facts narrated in this book are real and true? Why did Eni not react in Court as it did with me, against professor Albina Colela and the journalist Milena Gabanelli?

9-B) The authors, after verifying my documents and also hearing its “sources”, decided to publish my story with Eni in the book “The Parallel State” because they were convinced that my story is real, true and is well founded. If two journalists believed the facts I narrated with all the evidence and proofs I have, why isn’t Eni convinced that everything I speak is the honest truth?  

9-C) Why, instead of being convinced, even if it is necessary to conduct an “investigation” into my case, Eni preferred to present “three different versions” about my dismissal? 

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer.

Question 09 is also in my LinkedIN.

Question 08 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 08" to be answered by #Eni.

Introduction Question 08: A defeat of the Italian Oil Giant

Fortunately, at the end of 2014, the judge didn’t accept Eni’s (unproven) arguments in the lawsuit moved against me and the Brazilian Business Ethics Institute. In the sentence, the magistrate alleged that the lawsuit was “groundless” (Doc. 31).

After this sentence unfavorable to Eni, my lawyer and Eni’s outsourced lawyer, elaborated a deal (Doc. 32), accepted by the parties, however, Eni preferred to appeal to the Italian second instance. To confirm the company’s position, I sent a “notice” of this same subject but Eni alleged that our case was still in court (Doc. 33).

In the Court of Appeal, Eni maintained the “characteristics” in the lawsuit against me (Doc. 34). But contrary to Italian law, Eni “reduced” the indemnization from “15” million Euro to “5” million Euro. In addition, it gathered more evidence in its appeal. Reducing compensation and gathering more evidence are acts that Italian laws prohibit. And that can be easily confirmed in my defense (Doc. 35).

Questions 08:

8-A) “Judicial agreements” are made by the attorneys of the “author” and the “defendant” of the lawsuit with “consent” of both. Why did Eni not “comply” with the agreement proposed by the company’s “outsourced lawyer” and preferred to appeal the sentence?

8-B) Even though it is contrary to Italian laws, why did Eni reduce the compensation amount of the lawsuit filed against me from “15” million Euro to “5” million Euro, and also gathered more evidence in the appeal? 

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer.

Question 08 is also in my LinkedIN.

Question 07 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 07" to be answered by Eni. 

Introduction Question 07: Eni vs Whistleblowers

In October 2016, the Italian Senate began to analyze a “Whistleblower Protection Law” which was approved in the Chamber of Deputies in January this year. The International Transparency is the main leader of this movement (Doc. 40). In November 2017, Italian parliamentarians approved a "Whistleblower Protection Act" (Doc. 40-A).

Even though the subject “whistleblower” is in the journalistic agenda, no Italian journalist of the so called “mainstream media” was interested in publishing my story with Eni. The market says that Eni has a 400 million Euros budget on advertising and nobody dares to “badmouth” the largest company in Italy! (Doc. 41-A).

And the indication of this statements is that only the small newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano” published, in 2016, a story of a data center employee of Eni, project costing 100 million Euros, that after reporting that his coworkers watched pornographic videos while working, was fired! The newspaper headline was “Eni: games and porn movies in the control room. Fired after speaking the truth!” (Doc. 41-B).

In 2013, Eni also fired a captain of one of its oil ships after he fulfilled the company’s Code of Ethics and provided a complaint. A blog of the newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano” also broke the news! (Doc. 42).

These dismissals are more similar to my dismissal! 

Questions 07: 

7-A) Why don’t the great majority of the Italian newspaper publish “negative news” about Eni? Is this Eni’s “marketing strategy”: investing millions of Euro in advertising in order to contain the negative news against the company? 

7-B) Given the “Whistleblower Protection Law” that will “protect” whistleblowers from public and private companies, what will change in Eni’s “Ethics & Compliance Program”? What new actions will any take to comply with this new law? Does Eni have any concern about this new law? 

7-C) The stories of whistleblowers that are “silenced” and have their carreers “interrupted” by companies who don’t respect its Code of Ethics are very commom in the global corporate world. What does Eni have to say about it? 

7-D) It seems people claiming to be fired after reporting to Eni’s internal channels are commom. What does Eni have to say about it?


I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered. 

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer. 

Question 07 is also in my LinkedIN.