A Milan prosecutor on Monday
asked for a six-year and four-month prison term for former ENI
chief Paolo Scaroni in a trial into alleged kickbacks on
contracts in Algeria involving engineering unit Saipem.
The prosecutor also asked for a 900,000-euro fine for the
fuels group and Saipem.
He also asked for eight years in jail for Farid Noureddine
Bedjaoui, trustee of the then Algerian energy minister, who is
alleged to have been the beneficiary of the bribes.
In his summing up prosecutor Isidoro Palma said Scaroni and
ENI North America chief Antonio Vella "used the subsidiary to
move the kickbacks because it was easier for ENI".
ENI reiterated to ANSA that neither it not Saipem had done
anything wrong.
It said it would prove this during defence arguments over the
coming weeks.
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