Dossiers and stolen data case 29 October 2024 1.07pm
Stefano Speroni, head of Eni‘s legal affairs, is among those under investigation in the investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office into alleged data stolen from databases held by the police: he allegedly asked Equalize Srl for information on another oil entrepreneur.
Another suspect in the investigation by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office and the Varese Carabinieri into the alleged data stolen from the database held by the police. After Enrico Pazzali, president of Fondazione Fiera Milano (who suspended himself from his role last night), and Pierfrancesco Barletta, number two of the Milanese airports (he also suspended himself from his role), now there is another name of the high Milanese entrepreneurship: it is Stefano Speronipreviously a lawyer at the Dentons law firm and now leading Eni’s legal affairs. This is just the latest strand in the investigations that have revealed the alleged illegal activities of the Milanese investigation agency Equalize Srl.
The research that the suspect allegedly requested from the Equalize company – where the former policeman worked Carmine Gallo and of which Pazzali had 95 percent of the shares (both under investigation) – would have had the aim of obtaining finished information – as he explains Corriere della Sera – in one of the three reports filed two years ago by Eni at the Terni Court: it would be the civil case against Amara and the criminal case included in the Eni-Nigeria debate. What would they have been looking for?
Speroni would have asked for information – on behalf of the law firm where Equilize worked – on the oil entrepreneur, Francesco Mazzagatti (not investigated), by which Eni believed itself damaged. According to what was revealed by the Prosecutor’s Office, it was Gallo who carried out the research on the entrepreneur and judged him to be close to the ‘Ndrangheta. After all, former policeman Gallo, given his previous roles, was an expert in organized crime.
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When Mazzagatti ends up on trial with the hypothesis of corruption between private individualsthe prosecutors became aware of this report produced by Eni on the accused: the trial ended with the entrepreneur’s acquittal. When Mazzagatti also finds out about this research he presents it complaint for slander and defamationwhich ended with the dismissal requested by the public prosecutor. As he explains The Corriere della Sera, However, Gallo would not have been able to prove to the authorities his sources from which he would have deduced Mazzagatti’s closeness to the mafia.
Ora Speroni was searched on the orders of the public prosecutor Francesco De Tommasi, who is following the case of the stolen data.
