Eni never contacted me... Why?

Last week, I reconstructed a sequence of events that began after my report reached Eni’s Board of Directors in Italy - in August 2002.

Headquarters instructed that the issues I had raised be reviewed and further investigated.

Angelo Mario Taraborrelli, then CEO of Agip Petroli, came to Brazil. Shortly afterward, Paolo Grossi, an executive expatriated from Eni headquarters in Rome who was already working in Brazil, began directly overseeing the investigations.

Then the dismissals began.

In December 2002, three regional sales executives left Agip do Brasil in less than a month. Other departures followed, reaching different levels of the company’s commercial structure, including the Commercial Director.

For me, at the time, those events had a very particular meaning.

I believed headquarters was taking action.

After everything I had reported and documented, I began to hope that, at some point, Eni would contact me.

Perhaps to hear my side of the story.

Perhaps to request the documents I had gathered.

Perhaps simply to understand why an employee who had reported irregularities in accordance with the company’s own Code of Ethics had been dismissed just weeks later.

So I waited.

And I kept waiting.

But that contact never came.

While I watched what was happening inside the company, another deadline was quietly approaching: the deadline I still had to seek redress before the Brazilian Labor Court.

My hope that Eni would take the initiative was gradually replaced by the realization that I would have to make another decision.

And time was running out.

That is how I reached July 31, 2003 - the final day of the period my lawyers considered available to file my labor lawsuit against Agip do Brasil.

That day, the waiting ended.

A new chapter of the Flinto Case was beginning:

📌 the pursuit of justice.

That is what I will present tomorrow.

After twenty-five years, my request remains the same:

🔴 I am not asking you to accept my interpretation. I am asking you to follow the chronology, examine the documents, and reach your own conclusion.


❎ Learn more:

1️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of Events - Event 22

2️⃣ Documents concerning the dismissals that followed headquarters’ involvement:
🔹 Portuguese
🔹 English

3️⃣ Documents from the labor lawsuit filed on July 31, 2003 (five volumes – over 1,200 pages – original in Portuguese)