Environmental and social justice groups on Wednesday condemned Italy’s anti-corruption laws as “unfit for purpose”. The condemnation followed the acquittal of oil multinationals, Shell and Eni, on international corruption charges in Milan. PREMIUM TIMES reported how officials of the oil companies were acquitted by the court Wednesday. Thirteen other defendants in the case were also found not guilty. But activists and anti-corruption advocacy groups monitoring the case expressed their disappointment in the verdict in a statement Wednesday night. “The judgment brings shame on Italy,” says Lanre Suraju of HEDA, a Nigerian anti-corruption group that was among the first to expose the corruption allegations surrounding the OPL 245 deal. “One court has found the intermediaries of the OPL 245 deal guilty of international corruption, yet this court has found Shell and Eni not guilty. We await the full ruling of the Milan court to explain this bizarre outcome.” The two […]