The official Eni document that remains published

Yesterday, we saw how Luigi Zingales, former independent member of Eni's Board of Directors and Professor at the University of Chicago, told me a sentence that I have never forgotten:

🛑 "At Eni, I heard another version of your case".

At that moment, I still did not know what that "other version" was.

Three years later, I finally discovered it.

In April 2017, before Eni's General Shareholders' Meeting, the Company officially published the document:

📌 "Questions & Answers before the General Shareholders' Meeting".

The document contained Eni's responses to the questions submitted by journalist and critical shareholder Mauro Meggiolaro, representing Fondazione Finanza Etica, an organization linked to Banca Etica, regarding the Flinto Case.

It was in that document that, for the first time, I became aware of Eni's official version of my dismissal.

The document states:

🛑 "Contrary to what Mr. Flinto believes [...] the former employee was dismissed together with other individuals guilty of unlawful conduct, for reticence, for breaching his duty of confidentiality, and for attempting to misuse Eni's Code of Ethics in order to obtain personal advantages from the Company".

This statement has remained publicly available on Eni's official website since 2017.

That single paragraph later became the central document in every discussion that followed.

This document subsequently formed the basis for several important institutional and legal initiatives, including:

🔹 my complaint submitted to the Brazilian National Contact Point (Brazilian NCP), based on the identified non-compliance with the OECD - OCDE Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises;

🔹 my formal request for rectification submitted to Eni's Data Protection Officer (DPO), pursuant to Article 16 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);

🔹 the complaint subsequently filed with Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (GPDP);

🔹 and the legal debate concerning the accuracy of the personal data published by the Company itself.

From this point forward, the discussion is no longer based on different versions or personal recollections.

It is based on an official Eni document, publicly available for anyone to read and evaluate.

Tomorrow, we will see why this single paragraph became the center of an international discussion on truth, personal data protection, and corporate accountability.

Because, from this point forward, the documents will continue to speak for themselves.

To be continued on Wednesday.

✅ Learn more:

1️⃣ Questions & Answers before the General Shareholders' Meeting 2017;

2️⃣ Memorial submitted to Eni's Board of Directors;

3️⃣ Chronology of Events for the Reconstruction of the Facts.