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Eni officials approached witness to withdraw statements in Nigeria case - prosecutor

Published 17/07/2019, 10:14
Eni officials approached witness to withdraw statements in Nigeria case - prosecutor
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MILAN, July 17 (Reuters) - Officials from Italian oil group
Eni ENI.MI sought to convince a witness, a former Eni manager,
to withdraw some statements he had made during investigations
into a Nigerian corruption case involving the company, a court
heard on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale made the comment in a trial
hearing into the case, during a legal debate over a request by
Eni lawyers to adjourn proceedings to allow more time to
consider new evidence in a related investigation.
"We have become aware that Eni, through its managers, would
have tried to influence and would have approached the defendant
(Vincenzo) Armanna to convince him to withdraw some of his
statements," De Pasquale told the court without elaborating.
Armanna is both a defendant and a prosecution witness in the
corruption trial.
Eni has denied any wrongdoing in the trial, in which it is
accused of buying a Nigerian oil field in the knowledge that
most of the $1.3 billion purchase price would be siphoned off to
agents and middlemen in corrupt payments.
Eni also denies any wrongdoing in relation to a separate
investigation where prosecutors are looking into allegations
that Eni sought to obstruct justice in the Nigeria case.

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