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Eni expressed its gratitude for the trust placed by its stakeholders throughout the course of the trial, particularly in upholding the company\u2019s management and the conduct of its business, and respecting its reputation.<\/p>\n<p>In the court judgment Eni was granted full acquittal of all charges, since there was no case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost three years of trial, the judgment by a Milan Court has finally established that the company, the CEO Claudio Descalzi and the management involved in the proceedings have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nigeria-eni-acquitted-by-milan-court-in-opl245-trial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,11,7444],"tags":[470,768,1749,7953],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-top-news","category-west-africa","tag-claudio-descalzi","tag-eni","tag-nigeria","tag-opl245","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NIGERIA-opl226.png?fit=720%2C666&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2Ci","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1764,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/enis-ceo-coo-under-investigations-on-corruption-allegations-in-nigeria\/","url_meta":{"origin":10062,"position":0},"title":"Eni&#8217;s CEO, COO under investigations on corruption allegations in Nigeria","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"September 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Italian oil and gas giant Eni has said it is cooperating with the Milan prosecutor\u2019s office in relation to the preliminary investigation launched on the acquisition of the Nigerian block OPL 245 in 2011. 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