The interrogations for preliminary investigations in the field have started today at the Court of Milan of the investigation relating to Milanese urban planninginvestigation that has already led to the resignation of two councilors of the Milanese junta led by Beppe Sala.
The interrogations at the Palace of Justice in Milan
One of them, Giancarlo Tancrediformer councilor for urban planning halving this Mondaywas questioned this morning. The prosecutor added Tiziana Siciliano He made it known that the former councilor “answered all the questions, did not escape anything, deposited a memory and defended himself. He told us that he had asked for a suspension from the managerial assignment he has in common ».
Tancredi’s preventive interrogation lasted about an hour and a half, in the presence of the investigating judge Mattia Fiorentini and prosecutors Marina Petruzzella, Paolo Filippini and Mauro Clerici. “We insisted on the request for arrestSicilian reported, also specifying that the decision on the matter “is up to the investigating judge”. Leaving the classroom, Tancredi did not make statements. “In addition to the role of councilor, he also resigned, but also from the managerial assignment he held in the Municipality,” concluded Sicilian. For the former councilor, the crimes of competition in corruption, false and undue induction are hypothesized.
Before Tancredi was the turn of Giuseppe Marinoniformer president of the landscape commission of the Municipality of Milan and a key figure of the entire Milanese urban investigation. In front of the prosecutors and the investigating judge, Marinoni did not answer the questions, using the right not to respond. The lawyer of the latter, Eugenio Bono, presented a short defensive memory in order to justify the lack of the conditions to proceed with the precautionary measures requested by the Prosecutor (or the prison).
«There are no corruption episodes of any kind, we will clarify our position in the trial. The system outlined by the Prosecutor is not the one described in the act you read,There was no systemSaid Marinoni’s lawyer leaving the court. The Milan prosecutor has instead made the hypothesis that Through him, a “Government Plan of the Shadow Territory” would have passed, aimed at managing an “uncontrolled building expansion” in Milan. Marinoni risks prison for corruption, false and undue induction.
In the defensive memory, Marinoni’s lawyer states that “it is quite clear that the public prosecutor overlaps the role of the final penalty with that of the precautionary need, that it is not expressing the indignation of the Prosecutor or civil society for ethically questionable behaviors, but preventing a concrete and current danger”.
In the afternoon, it was the turn of the architect Federico Pellawho replied to all the investigating judges and submitted a defensive memory, the prosecutor also requested the prison for him. Immediately afterwards it was the turn of Manfredi Catellareal estate and founder of Coima, for which the prosecutor asks for house arrest.
The suspects for the Park Towers has been indicted
Meanwhile, the gup Alessandra di Fazio he sent to trial all the six suspects for the project of Park Towers of via Crescenzago in Milan, which led to the construction of two residential towers near the Lambro Park. The trial will begin on November 12 before the Milan court. Among the defendants for abusive subdivision there is Andrea Bezziccherientrepreneur at the head of the Bluestone construction company, already at the center of another investigative vein that led the prosecutor to ask for its arrest. Bezziccheri also presented himself today to the investigating judge Mattia Fiorentini for the interrogation relating to the request for pre -trial detention.
The designer Sergio Francesco Maria Asti and three former managers and officials of the Single building of the MunicipalityCarla Barone, Francesco Rosata and Maurizio De Luca, and Roberto Vederio, legal representative of Devero Costruzioni.
According to the reconstruction of the Milan prosecutor, The Park Towers project would have represented a speculative operation in favor of private investorsfollowing a scheme already emerged in other cases of the urban investigation. The intervention would have been carried out by circumventing the normal procedures through the use of a Wake (self -certification) presented as a simple renovation of pre -existing industrial warehouses, rather than as a new construction that would instead have requested a regular implementation plan.
This operating mode would have made it possible to avoid the obligations provided for the new buildingsin particular the creation of public services to be paid by manufacturers such as green areas and parking for residents of the area. In addition, violations of urban and landscape regulations would have been found, with particular reference to the impact of the two towers on an area already particularly congested.
A further contested element concerns the payment of urbanization chargeswhich according to investigators would have happened “downward” with discounts up to 60% compared to what is due, causing an estimated tax damage between 300,000 and 310,000 euros. The Lombard Court of Auditors confirmed this aspect in its examination, while the ministries of ministries underline how the lack of an implementation plan has deprived the neighborhood of the interventions necessary to compensate for the impact of the settlement of hundreds of new residents.
