Eni’s retaliatory SLAPP lawsuits against me

For nearly 25 years, I have faced a sequence of reprisals, institutional silence, and asymmetric litigation after reporting internal wrongdoing within the Brazilian subsidiary of Eni, in accordance with the very principles and spirit of the company’s own Code of Ethics.

Throughout this period:
✔️ I have been subjected to 3 lawsuits filed by the company; including a criminal action in which I was served outside the mechanisms establishedvunder bilateral agreements between Brazil and Italy;
✔️ I have faced the continued public dissemination of narratives that I formally contest based on robust documentary evidence;
✔️ I saw my executive career destroyed and my retirement lost;
✔️ and I witnessed repeated attempts at amicable settlement fail, including in 2015 and 2020, with the direct involvement of the Italian Ambassador to Brazil at the time.

Meanwhile, the company maintained institutional silence before:
🔹 5 different compositions of the Board of Directors;
🔹 3 different CEOs;
🔹 multiple formal complaints;
🔹 a detailed memorial;
🔹 a complete chronology of events;
🔹 and documentary evidence accumulated over more than two decades.

Today, the European Union is finally institutionally recognizing what whistleblowers, journalists, and human rights defenders have been denouncing for years.

The new EU Anti-SLAPP Directive acknowledges that certain lawsuits may display typical characteristics of:
👉 intimidation;
👉 financial exhaustion;
👉 consumption of time and resources;
👉 psychological pressure;
👉 and the silencing of matters of public interest.

It is no coincidence that organizations such as ReCommon have also accused Eni of using mechanisms with typical SLAPP characteristics.

The question that remains is simple:

📌 how many whistleblowers must have their lives destroyed before large corporate and institutional structures finally accept revisiting their own mistakes?

The “Flinto Case” was never merely about a former employee.

It is about:

✔️ corporate ethics;
✔️ accountability;
✔️ whistleblowing;
✔️ governance;
✔️ data protection;
✔️ and the right not to be crushed by structures infinitely more powerful.

Because selective protection, selective justice, and selective accountability cease to be protection, justice, and accountability.

They become merely power.


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

✅ 1) Memorial (1999–2025);

✅ 2) Chronology of facts supported by documentary evidence.