Eni: No independent investigation! Why?

Throughout this week, we have seen how the Flinto Case evolved far beyond a personal story.

It was featured in the first investigative book ever published about Eni.

It reached the Company's General Shareholders' Meetings on four separate occasions.

It was brought before Eni's highest governing body by a journalist and critical shareholder.

During Eni's 2018 General Shareholders' Meeting, a mediation meeting was proposed based on dialogue, transparency, and the principles of good corporate governance.

The proposal was never answered.

Meanwhile, time passed.

Five different Boards of Directors led the Company.

🔹 2002

🔹 2009

🔹 2014

🔹 2020

🔹 2023

Three different CEOs led Eni.

✔️ Vittorio Mincato

✔️ Paolo Scaroni

✔️ Claudio Descalzi

New compliance structures were created.

The Code of Ethics was updated.

The Whistleblowing Policy was strengthened.

The Company publicly announced new commitments to ethics, integrity, and corporate governance, including the ISO 37301:2021 certification, issued by the Italian multinational RINA.

But one question remained unanswered.

📌 Why has no independent investigation ever been conducted into the facts and the body of documentary evidence presented?

Perhaps that is now the most important question of this entire story.

Because when a question remains unanswered for a quarter of a century, it ceases to be just a question.

It becomes part of the story itself.

So far, we have told the story.

Starting next week, we will begin presenting the key documents that will allow every reader to reach their own conclusions.

To be continued on Monday.

✅ Learn more about my history with the Italian oil giant Eni:

1️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025);

2️⃣ Chronology of facts supported by documentary evidence. 

A mediation proposal that Eni neither accepted nor responded to

In 2018, journalist and critical shareholder Mauro Meggiolaro went beyond the written questions previously submitted to Eni.

During the General Shareholders' Meeting, he took the floor and addressed the Board of Directors, the shareholders in attendance, and members of the press.

On that occasion, he publicly presented the Flinto Case.

But his intervention was not intended to make accusations or demand punishment.

Quite the opposite.

Mauro Meggiolaro proposed that Eni and I meet to seek a solution based on dialogue, transparency, and the principles of good corporate governance.

He even offered to act as a mediator between the parties.

The proposal was simple.

Neither to condemn.

Nor to absolve.

Only to allow the facts to be examined transparently.

To talk.

To review the documents.

To seek a solution consistent with the values that the Company itself claims to uphold.

The meeting, however, was never held.

The proposal was never answered.

Nevertheless, Mauro Meggiolaro's intervention remains permanently recorded in the Official Minutes of Eni's 2018 General Shareholders' Meeting.

Perhaps that was the moment when the Flinto Case definitively ceased to be merely a personal story.

It became, in a public, documented, and permanent way, part of the debate on ethics, transparency, and corporate governance within Eni itself.

Tomorrow, we will see why, after five different Boards of Directors and three CEOs, no independent investigation has ever been conducted.

To be continued on Friday.

✅ Learn more about my history with the Italian oil giant Eni:

1️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025);

2️⃣ Chronology of facts supported by documentary evidence.