Saipem, bribes Algeria acquitted Scaroni and Eni – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 2 October 2015 at 16:08.
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The Gup of the Milan court acquitted Alessandra Clemente Paolo Scaroni, former CEO of Eni, from ‘charges of corruption in international proceedings relating to the alleged payment of 198 million Euros in bribes in Algeria to get Saipem (owned by Eni) contracts to 8 billion Euros. She was acquitted even now Eni, Saipem and go to trial. The company had been investigated by the law 231/2001 on the administrative liability of companies.

In addition to Paolo Scaroni and Eni was also acquitted the former head of Eni North Africa, Antonio Vella. Were indicted, however, in addition to the company Saipem, the former chief operating officer of Saipem, Pietro Varone, the former chief financial officer before Saipem and Eni, Alessandro Bernini, the former president and CEO of Saipem, Peter Such , Noureddine Farid Bedjaoui, trustee of the then energy minister of Algeria and Samyr Ouraied, confidant of Bedjaoui. The trial against them will begin on Dec. 2, 2015 in front of the judges of the Fourth Criminal Court of Milan. The alleged crime by the accused on remand is to competition in international corruption while in Varone, Bernini, Tali, Bedjaoui and Ouraied is also contested the fraudulent misrepresentation of income. Moreover, by virtue of reunification with another line of investigation, the decision on indictment also affects Omar Habour, considered the money launderer of the alleged bribes paid by the Italian group in the North African country. As for the other alleged recycler Yam Atallah, for he was declared the case dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. The former president of Saipem Algeria, Tullio Orsi, has bargained sentence of two years and ten months in prison and confiscation of 1.3 million francs.

“We are happy, we were certain of his innocence,” he said the lawyers Henry de Castiglione and Alberto Moro Visconti, legal Paolo Scaroni, former CEO of Eni, commenting on the decision of the Gup of Milan.

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