In the previous episode, I showed that, following the lack of response from Eni’s new Board of Directors, on July 16, 2020, I took the Flinto Case to the NCP Brazil because of what I considered clear instances of the company’s non-compliance with the OECD - OCDE Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
A few months later, another institutional path opened.
This time, through Italian diplomacy.
📌 November 9, 2020.
Following contacts with the then Italian Foreign Minister, the Chief of Staff at the
Farnesina, Italian diplomat Ettore Sequi, referred my case to Italy’s highest-ranking representative in my country, the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Francesco Azzarello, so that I could discuss my case involving Eni.
That same day, I wrote to the Ambassador.
The following day, I received a response from Carlo Jacobucci, Counsellor and Head of the Commercial Department at the Italian Embassy in Brazil, sent on behalf of Ambassador Azzarello:
🔹 “We will contact Eni regarding the matter and, as soon as we receive a response, we will contact you”.
That was important.
🔴 The Italian Embassy in Brazil would contact Eni about the Flinto Case.
I replied to Jacobucci asking only that Ambassador Azzarello also have the opportunity to hear my side of the story:
📌 “I would like Ambassador Azzarello to have the opportunity to hear my version of the facts involving Eni, just as he will hear the Italian oil giant’s version.”
The documents record this sequence of messages between November 9 and 10, 2020.
Just over two weeks later, I would finally speak with Ambassador Francesco Azzarello.
📌 November 26, 2020.
During that conversation, Ambassador Azzarello informed me that he could not take the Flinto Case to the Italian Prime Minister because doing so was outside the scope of his institutional role.
But I would receive another piece of information - one that opened a new possibility in this story:
🔹 an amicable settlement.
25 years later, my request remains 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 all these years.
I am not asking anyone to believe me. I am asking them to examine the documents before reaching an independent conclusion.
📌 NEXT EPISODE:
ENI WAS WAITING FOR A SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL.
❎ Learn more:
1️⃣ Correspondence with the Italian Embassy in Brazil (November 2020)
🔹 Original in Portuguese
🔹 English Translation
2️⃣ Memorial — The Flinto Case
3️⃣ Chronology of Facts for the Reconstruction of Events
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