Ep77 - Taking the Flinto Case to the OECD

In the previous episode, I showed that, in May 2020, a newly composed Board of Directors took over Eni’s governance.

That same month, for the fourth time, I took the Flinto Case directly to the company’s governance.

I submitted documents and asked the new Board to have my case investigated and analyzed.

My request was clear:

🔴 Investigate.

Examine the documents.

Compare the different versions.

Establish the facts.

And reach an independent conclusion.

I received no response from the new Board of Directors.

Faced with that silence, I decided to turn to an external institution.

📌 July 16, 2020.

I took the Flinto Case to the Brazilian National Contact Point for the OECD - OCDE Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (NCP Brazil).

It marked an important shift in this story.

For almost two decades, I had tried to obtain answers from within Eni itself - through executives, different Boards of Directors, internal oversight bodies, and Shareholders’ Meetings.

Now, I was taking the conflict beyond the company’s walls.

I filed a complaint with the NCP Brazil concerning Eni’s conduct in relation to the Flinto Case:

🔹 I submitted documents.

🔹 I reconstructed the chronology of events.

🔹 I reported my original whistleblowing disclosure in 2001, my dismissal, and the events that followed.

🔹 And I brought before an institutional mechanism linked to the OECD - OCDE Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises a story that, at that point, was approaching its 20th anniversary.

For me, there was one fundamental question:

🔴 If Eni was not willing to conduct an independent investigation into the Flinto Case, could an external institution finally examine the facts and the documents?

I did not yet know what the answer would be.

But on July 16, 2020, a new chapter was beginning.

The Flinto Case had reached the NCP Brazil.

And just a few months later, another institutional path would open.

This time, through Italian diplomacy.

25 years later, however, my request remains essentially the same:

🔴 That Eni allow a truly independent investigation into the Flinto Case, examining the facts, the documents, and the different versions of my dismissal presented by the company itself over these 25 years.

I am not asking anyone to believe me. I am asking them to examine the documents before reaching an independent conclusion.

📌 NEXT EPISODE:

WHEN ITALIAN DIPLOMACY ENTERED THE FLINTO CASE.


❎ Learn more:

1️⃣ Complaint submitted to the NCP Brazil (July 16, 2020)
🔹 Original document
🔹 English version

2️⃣ Supplement Complaint submitted to the NCP Brazil (July 20, 2020)
🔹 Original document
🔹 English version

3️⃣ Memorial — The Flinto Case

4️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of Events