The Flinto Case: Eni's AGM

If this had been merely a dispute between a former employee and a company, this story would probably have ended many years ago.

But the opposite happened.

Over the past 25 years, the Flinto Case has gone far beyond an individual dispute.

It reached the highest governing body of Eni.

The Flinto Case was brought four times before the Company's General Shareholders' Meetings (AGM).

🔹 2017

🔹 2018

🔹 2020

🔹 2021

On each of these occasions, shareholders requested clarification regarding the facts, the documents submitted, the absence of an independent investigation, and the amicable settlement proposal I presented at Eni's own request through the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, which was never answered.

Those questions were no longer mine alone.

They became part of the Company's corporate governance debate.

Very few cases remain on the agenda of a global company's General Shareholders' Meetings for so many years.

And that leads to a new question:

📌 What led a critical shareholder to insist on this matter for so many years?

Tomorrow, we will learn the story of the journalist and critical shareholder who decided to bring the Flinto Case before Eni's General Shareholders' Meetings and formally raise questions that the Company has never answered with documentary evidence.

To be continued on Wednesday.

✅ Learn more:

📖 1. Book presentation in Rome (Italian);

📄 2. The Flinto Case excerpt from the book (Italian).

Eni: The Parallel State

Over the past few weeks, I have raised one simple question:

📌 If Eni's version is truly correct, why has there never been an independent investigation?

Today, I would like to show that this story ceased to be merely a dispute between a former employee and a company many years ago.

In 2016, the Flinto Case was included in the first investigative book ever published about Eni.

Entitled "Lo Stato Parallelo – La prima inchiesta sull'Eni tra politica, servizi segreti, scandali finanziari e nuove guerre", the book was written by Italian journalists andrea greco (La Repubblica) and Giuseppe Oddo after five years of research and published by Chiarelettere.

The book examines Eni's enormous political, economic and geopolitical influence throughout modern Italian history, describing the company as a true "State within the State."

Within this broader investigation, the authors decided to include the Flinto Case among the stories examined in the book.

After its publication, I asked the authors why they had decided to include my story.

Their answer was straightforward.

After reviewing the documentation I had provided and speaking with their own independent sources, they concluded that the story had sufficient grounds to be included in the publication.

That was an important milestone.

For the first time, the Flinto Case became part of an independent journalistic investigation into one of the world's largest energy companies.

And that was only the beginning.

Tomorrow, we will see how the Flinto Case reached Eni's General Shareholders' Meetings.

To be continued...


✅ Learn more:

📖 1. Book presentation in Rome (Italian);

📄 2. The Flinto Case excerpt from the book (Italian).