(Update with known Eni) MILAN, January 14 (Reuters) – The prosecutor of Milan has lodged the closing of the investigation in the investigation into alleged bribes paid to obtain contracts by Saipem in Algeria related to eight individuals and two entities. The two intelligence sources report, adding that in addition to the crime of bribery, for some suspects – including ex-CEO of Eni Paolo Scaroni and former COO of Saipem Pietro Varone – is also speculated the crime of tax fraud. The lawyer Scaroni, contacted by email by Reuters at the time had no immediate comment, while the legal Varone told Reuters he had not received any notification of yet for his client. Since the filing of the closure of the dossier to the notifying suspected normally can also pass a few days. The closure investigation, or 415 bis, is the act that ends the preliminary investigation stage. Now suspects have a window of about forty days to ask to be interviewed or to be to further investigations. Usually it is the act prodromal to the request for trial by the prosecution. The companies Saipem and Eni, investigated by the law 231 on the liability of companies for crimes possibly committed by their leaders in the interest business. Saipem, contacted by Reuters, had no immediate comment. While Eni in a statement, “notes the closure by the Milan prosecutors of the investigation … and reiterates its strangeness of the events under investigation on Saipem activities in Algeria.” “Eni – the statement continues – remembers promoted during 2013 an internal forensic part of a law firm International that revealed no illegal conduct by Eni managers. The company also confirms that you have not entered into any agreement for the procurement or use intermediaries for their activities in Algeria. ” More …
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