• Who is Claudio Descalzi, Eni's Chief Executive Officer

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11 September 2014 There would also be the new CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi, among the suspects by the Milan Public Prosecutor.

This is what

Corriere della Sera

anticipates

according to which the CEO would be charged with the crime of "international corruption" regarding the acquisition, in 2011, of an oil field off the coast of Nigeria worth one billion and 300 million dollars. .

Among those under investigation there are also the former CEO Paolo Scaroni and Luigi Bisignani.



The Milanese line of investigation on the 'four-legged dog' gained momentum after the acquisition by the Milanese prosecutors of the wiretapping of the 2010 investigation of the Naples colleagues Henry John Woodcock and Francesco Curcio on the so-called P4, in which he was also involved Luigi Bisignani, who negotiated a year and 7 months of imprisonment.

According to the indictment, Eni is under investigation for the offenses committed by its management in relation to the OPL 245 offshore oil field. acquisition agreement signed in 2011 with the Nigerian government and previous negotiations with the Malabu company.



In fact, from the interceptions of the Neapolitan investigation, Bisignani's intervention on the leaders of Eni at the time emerged.

Bisignani was talking on the phone with former Eni number 1 Paolo Scaroni and also with Claudio Descalzi.

That phone call, which would have given a turning point to the investigation of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office on alleged international corruption, was denied by Scaroni himself last April 3 in the Senate: "I never spoke to Bisignani, either by phone or in any other way. , block 245, so that phone call cannot be mine ".



According to rumors reported by the newspaper, around 80 million dollars, that is a part of the alleged maxi-bribe of 190 million that would have been paid to Nigerian public officials, have already been seized in recent months by the Swiss judiciary.

Moreover, from what has been learned, the London authorities yesterday seized approximately 110 million dollars in advance from an English account of the Nigerian intermediary Emeka Obi. 



Eni: "Strangers to illicit"

Eni reiterates "its extraneousness from any illicit conduct".

In a note, the company explains that it has entered into agreements for the acquisition of the block only with the Nigerian government and the Shell company.

"The entire payment for the issue of the relevant license to Eni and Shell was made solely to the Nigerian government. Eni - reads the note - acknowledges that, from documents notified to the company yesterday in the context of a foreign proceeding seizure of a bank account of a third company at the request of the Milan Public Prosecutor, the Chief Executive Officer and the Operations and Technology Director are under investigation at the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office ".

Eni "is collaborating fully with the judiciary and is confident that the correctness of its actions will emerge during the investigation".