Milan, August 8 (LaPresse) – The Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office today filed an appeal to the Review Court regarding the former Pirellino case, which involves Manfredi Catella, Stefano Boeri, former councilor Giancarlo Tancredi, former chairman of the Landscape Commission Giuseppe Marinoni, and Mayor Giuseppe Sala, all investigated for undue inducement.
The Prosecutor’s Office challenged the ordinance issued by Judge Mattia Fiorentini, which ordered the arrests of architects and entrepreneurs for corruption and forgery, only in the part where it did not recognize the “serious evidence” of undue inducement. Although there was “pressure” from Sala and Tancredi on Marinoni after the threats of “break” from Catella and Boeri, no “personal” benefit or advantage was allegedly promised to Marinoni for changing his opinion on the Pirellino project to a conditional favorable one (June 22, 2023).
Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano and Deputy Prosecutor Marina Petruzzella, who signed the order, disagreed. They stated that “Marinoni’s acquiescence to the undue requests from the Councilor” was in fact “in his interest to perpetuate the position of power he held within the Landscape Commission.” This is confirmed by the fact that at the end of his term, his loyalty to the superior political line ensured that he was reappointed by the Mayor, upon the Councilor’s proposal, even though Marinoni had already been subjected to a phone seizure on November 7, 2024, as he was under investigation in this case—a fact known to the Municipal Administration.