{"id":752,"date":"2022-07-19T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=752"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:50:41","slug":"italy-court-confirms-acquittal-of-eni-shell-in-nigeria-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/752\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Court confirms acquittal of Eni, Shell in Nigeria case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>A Milan Appeal Court acknowledged on Tuesday the dropping of criminal proceedings in a Nigeria corruption case, finalising the acquittal of Eni&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/ENI.MI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(ENI.MI)<\/a>&nbsp;and Shell , as well as managers including Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General prosecutor Celestina Gravina, in an unprecedented move in a Milan court, had filed a waiver request at the start of the appeal trial earlier on Tuesday, saying the case had no grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tribunal Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, which is a separate body, and the Nigerian government had previously sought to appeal a March 2021 ruling acquitting the two companies and defendants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the appeal will only continue for the civil proceedings, as Nigeria has sued for compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporting by Emilio Parodi, editing by Keith Weir<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2022-07-19T15:50:41+00:00\"> 19 July 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Milan Appeal Court acknowledged on Tuesday the dropping of criminal proceedings in a Nigeria corruption case, finalising the acquittal of Eni&nbsp;(ENI.MI)&nbsp;and Shell , as well as managers including Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi. General prosecutor Celestina Gravina, in an unprecedented move in a Milan court, had filed a waiver request at the start of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,36,19,16],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}