Witness tells court Eni official bribed him to retract allegation
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MILAN (Reuters) - A witness in a corruption case involving Italian oil firm Eni told a court on Monday that a senior official from the company had bribed him to withdraw his allegations of graft, which he had agreed to do.Vincenzo Armanna is both a prosecution witness and a defendant in the trial in which Eni is accused of acquiring a Nigerian oilfield in 2011 by corruptly paying middlemen. Both he and Eni have denied wrongdoing.Armanna worked for Eni from 2006 to 2013, when he was sacked in a..