The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has requested six arrests , including that of Giancarlo Tancredi, the city's councilor for Urban Regeneration, as part of an investigation into urban planning management . Prosecutors have recommended house arrest for Tancredi and a businessman, while prison sentences are proposed for a former president and a member of the landscape commission, as well as two other developers. The charges, variously, include corruption and forgery. Today, in addition to searches and acquisitions, the Financial Police Unit of the Guardia di Finanza is notifying the suspects, including businessman Manfredi Catella, of their preliminary hearings with the investigating judge. Among those under investigation is Stefano Boeri, the star architect known worldwide for his Bosco Verticale.
Based on the outcome of preliminary hearings, investigating judge Mattia Fiorentini will decide whether to accept the prosecutor's requests or revise them. Investigators have so far been unable to serve the document on one of the suspects. The investigation involving Tancredi, Catella, president of Coima, and Andrea Bezziccheri of Bluestone follows the one that last March placed Giovanni Oggioni, architect and former vice president of the Palazzo Marino Landscape Commission, under house arrest. Oggioni is considered the alleged "master manipulator" of a "system" of "wild real estate speculation" favoring the interests of developers.
Also four months ago, a one-year suspension from the profession and holding public office was imposed on Marco Cerri, a design architect and former member of the Landscape Commission. According to prosecutors Marina Petruzzella, Paolo Filippini, and Mauro Clerici, and deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano, Oggioni—who allegedly participated in drafting amendments to the "Save Milan" law to block investigations into urban planning, and allegedly worked to push them through Cerri to Parliament by activating political channels—allegedly facilitated building practices in exchange for benefits. To get certain projects from the Abitare In company approved by the Commission, he allegedly obtained employment at his daughter's company, also an architect, with contracts worth over €124,000 between 2020 and 2023. This was allegedly done without a conflict of interest declaration, which led to charges of perjury.
Secondly, Oggioni , who was also the director of the One-Stop Shop for Construction (SUE), allegedly held a consultancy contract with Assimpredil Ance, a construction association, worth over €178,000 between February 2022 and November 2024. He allegedly influenced the administrative activities of a series of construction applications by member companies, eleven in total. Based on this reconstruction, the two companies are under investigation, while the professional is facing corruption charges. He is also accused of misdirection and other false allegations regarding various real estate projects that have already been the focus of investigations into urban planning in Milan, often passing them off as unlawful renovations without the necessary implementation plans.
(Unioneonline)