The audit confirmed irregularities, but...

In my previous post, I presented the Agip do Brasil Internal Audit Report, dated July 26, 2001, prepared after my whistleblowing report and just six days before my dismissal.

Today, I begin examining its contents.

The report analyzed sales made by the Cuiabá unit to TELEMAT (Brasil Telecom) and recorded serious findings:
🔹 vehicle entry and exit control records had been destroyed;
🔹 powers of attorney and transportation responsibility documents were missing;
🔹 invoice receipt stubs contained illegible signatures;
🔹 contractual documents had been misplaced;
🔹 members of the commercial department confirmed “fictitious invoicing”;
🔹 other similar transactions had also occurred;
🔹 one of the companies examined was under investigation by the Fuel Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry.

The document confirmed that invoicing issued in TELEMAT’s name was used to reduce the price of fuel intended for a service station.

It also recorded similar transactions involving 260,000 liters of gasoline, worth R$359,469.50, as well as the sale of millions of liters of fuel to a carrier linked to service stations that did not purchase directly from Agip.

Therefore, these were not merely administrative failures.

The report confirmed irregular commercial transactions, weak internal controls, destroyed or missing documents, and practices known to members of the commercial department itself.

But my whistleblowing report was not limited to TELEMAT.

My dossier, containing more than 200 pages, described conflicts of interest, commercial relationships between employees and customers, company-owned service stations operated through third parties, and the transportation of Agip products by tanker trucks linked to managers.

These facts do not appear in the report’s conclusions.

The question remains:

📌 How could an audit confirm “fictitious invoicing,” destroyed documents and similar transactions - and still fail to investigate all the facts presented by the whistleblower?

In the next posts, I will show some of the main issues that were left out of this report.

For twenty-five years, I have not asked Eni to accept my account.

🛑 I have asked only that it compare my whistleblowing report and the existing documents with what Internal Audit examined - and with what it failed to examine.


✅ Learn more:

1️⃣ Agip do Brasil Internal Audit Report:
🔹 original in Portuguese
🔹 English translation

2️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of the Events

3️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025)

Internal Audit Report

In June 2001, while temporarily heading Agip do Brasil’s Regional Sales Management office in Cuiabá, in the State of Mato Grosso, I reported to the company’s Commercial Directorate internal irregularities that I had identified and described in my “dossier”, indicating estimated diversions of US$20 million per year.

While I was on vacation, Agip carried out an internal audit at that unit.

The document I am presenting today is the INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT dated July 26, 2001, prepared after my report and just six days before my dismissal, which took place on August 1 of that same year.

This document, which was in the possession of the Brazilian state-owned company Petrobras - the company that acquired Eni’s assets in Brazil in 2004 - came into my hands in 2021 under Brazil’s Access to Information Law.

The report was produced by Agip do Brasil itself and signed by the then General Manager of Internal Audit.

Its content is particularly relevant because it confirms that Eni’s Brazilian subsidiary conducted an investigation at the Cuiabá unit immediately after I submitted my whistleblowing report.

Among the facts recorded in the document are irregularities involving the issuance of invoices against an important telecommunications operator in the State of Mato Grosso, TELEMAT - Brasil Telecom, one of the matters I had already brought to the company’s attention.

Therefore, this is not merely my account.

It is an internal Agip document, produced in July 2001, confirming that an audit was carried out after my report and only a few days before my dismissal.

In the next post, I will examine the contents of this report in greater depth and show not only what it recorded, but also the serious issues raised in my report that do not appear in its conclusions.

For twenty-five years, I have asked only one thing of six different compositions of the Board of Directors of the Italian oil giant:

📌 that the documents be examined independently, impartially and transparently.


✅ Read more:

1️⃣ Agip do Brasil Internal Audit Report:
🔹 original version in Portuguese
🔹 English version

2️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of Events

3️⃣ Memorial (1999–2025)