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).