Question 06 to be answered by Eni

This is "Question 06" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 06: Spot & Fraud Audit and Whistleblowing

In 2014, for the third time, Eni had new non-executives and new executives. For this reason, I began to communicate with the new CEO and his new executives as wells as the members of the company’s Board.

One of these executives were the lawyer Francesca Cottone that, since July 2013, integrates Eni’s Department of Audit with the function of Vice President – Spot & Fraud Audit and Whistleblowing (Doc. 01) and currently serves as Senior Vice President of the Department of Compliance Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Reporting.

Ms. Cottone, after Eni “blocked” my emails, became the only one to receive my messages. In one of these messages, I requested that she, for occupying the function she occupies within Eni, should have the dignity of carrying an “investigative audit” to emerge the real truth about my case! (Doc. 02) (Doc. 03) (Doc. 04). Mr. Cottone didn’t reply to my messages!

In 2017, the Brazilian Business Ethics Institute received an "anonymous complaint" involving Eni Americas: executives misconduct, corruption international and nonconformities with the Code of Ethics of the company. Unlike the first complaint, whose letter was sent from the United States, now the complaint was sent from Italy, Eni’s headquarters (Doc. 05) (Doc. 06).

Questions 06:

6-A) Why the Department of Spot & Fraud Audit and Whistleblowing didn’t answered my messages? Isn’t this department responsible for “whistleblowing”?

6-B) Why did the Department of Spot & Fraud Audit and Whistleblowing not accept my suggestion to conduct an “investigation” to clarify my case?

6-C) As CEO of the Brazilian Business Ethics Institute and Eni’s Whistleblower, I received anonymous complaints from employees of Eni Americas e Italy. Basically the complaints involved the same subject and were very “serious”. What were Eni’s attitudes regarding these denounciations involving Eni Americas’ executives in “acts of corruption”, as well as “conflicts of interests” involving Dr. Massimo Mantovani and Mr. Francesca Cottone? What are the results of these investigations? Did any proved what was reported? Has anyone been punished exemplarily? 

6-D) What would be the reason for two Eni employees, one from Italy and the other from the Americas, not to use the “internal channels” of the company, preferring to make serious complaints to a former employee who is also Eni’s whistleblower? Does not making these complaints directly at Eni any indicates that the company’s “Ethics & Compliance Program” has serious “credibility” problems? 

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer.

Question 06 is also in my LinkedIN. 

Question 05 to be answered by Eni.

This is "Question 05" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 05: Dr. Mantovani. False Dossier. Obstruction of Justice.

In 2018, Dr. Massimo Mantovani, began to be investigated by the Public Ministry of Italy for “Obstruction of Justice” given the elaboration of a “Dossier” against Mr. Luigi Zingales involving a “false conspiracy”. 

According to the promoters, the goal of this dossier is only to disturb the investigations against the current CEO of Eni (Doc. 01), Mr. Claudio Descalzi, in the OPL 245 case, in Nigeria, also known as “Bribe of the Year”.

Questions 05:

5-A) Was involving Mr. Luigi Zingales in this “False Dossier” Eni’s way to “avenge” the attitude of its former advisor and the “reasons” alleged by him to the newspapers when he resigned from his position in the Board of the company? 

5-B) What are the attitudes that the Board of Eni is taking regarding the very serious acusation of “obstruction of justice” involving its former Chief Legal Officer? If Dr. Massimo Mantovani’s participation is proven by the Italian Criminal Prosecutor’s Office, what does Eni intend to do? 

5-C) According to Italian prosecutors, the elaboration of this “Dossier” aimed to “protect”, diverting the target of the investigations into the “OPL 245 Case” of Eni’s curent CEO, Mr. Claudio Descalzi. Although Eni states that it “trusts” in the management of its executive, the evidence presented by the Italian Criminal Prosecutor’s Office is “robust” indicating that, indeed, there was a billionaire payment of bribes for the acquisition of this asset in Nigeria. Wouldn’t it be reasonable for Eni to “remove” its CEO until this case is finalized in court? By not removing the CEO, doesn’t it tell the market and Eni’s stakeholders that the company “endorses” acts of corruption that are totally contrary to the words and spirit of Eni’s Code of Ethics? 

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer.

Question 05 is also in my LinkedIN. 

Question 04 to be answered by Eni.

This is "Question 04" to be answered by Eni.

Introduction Question 04: Promise of help!

At the end of 2013, the Italian press gave the news of who would be the new members of the Board of Eni and made their bets on who would occupy the position of CEO. I started writing to these people to tell my story that would complete 12 long years in that year!

Only one of these professionals replied to my email. It was Mr. Luigi Zingales, who served as economic advisor to the Italian government. Despite the Italian nationality, Mr. Zingales has been living in the USA for over 20 years and is an economics professor at the University of Chicago. In his email, he stated that he already knew my story and would do his best to help me (Doc. 01), if he was confirmed at Eni’s Shareholders Meeting, which happened in May 2014.

Some time later, in another email (Doc. 02), professor Zingales stated that he was “working in silence” in my favor. Weeks later, we were together in Brazil, when he came to launch one of his books (Doc. 03). However, fifteen days after our meeting, professor Zingales resigned from his post at the Board of Eni because of “irreconcilable differences with his peers of the Board of Eni regarding how it should be the company’s management” (Doc. 04).

Questions 04:

4-A) Did the Board of Eni know that Mr. Zingales knew my story and was willing to intercede for me before the other members of the Board of the company? 

4-B) What were these “irreconcilable differences with his peers of the Board of Eni regarding how it should be the company’s management” that made Mr. Luigi Zingales resign from the position of non-executive director of the Board of Eni? 

4-C) Was one of these “irreconcilable differences” the fact that Mr. Luigi Zingales tried to help me with the Board of Eni? 

I am Eni's Whistleblower that suffers "retaliation" from this company until today.

There will be a total of "15 questions" which, in these 17 years, Eni has not yet answered.

Follow daily the new questions in this Blog to see if the Italian oil giant will answer.

Question 04 is also in my LinkedIn.