The investigation into urban planning in Milan also involves Stefano Boeri: according to the prosecutor, pressure was exerted on the Municipality to approve his botanical tower
To extricate itself in the last urban planning investigation of the Milan prosecutor’s office, which now risks making the Sala junta shake, you have to return to November 2023, when a file was opened after a report of the ANAC and anomalies in building practices. To suspect the investigators: suspected approvals of strategic projects, use of the wake instead of permits and implementation plans in derogation from the PGT, often not public. In January 2024, access to the urban offices start. In March the names of the commissioner emerge Giancarlo Tancredi and of Giuseppe Marinonipresident of the Landscape Commission. In May seizures are triggered in the construction sites in via Valtellina. In June the existence of a “pgt shadow” is assumed, managed informally by external technicians. November 7th Marinoni receives the warranty notice. In December, despite the investigation, the mayor Room confirms it. In March 2025, the arrest of the former manager Giovanni Oggioni It brings out a wider corruption system. Up to the present day, or to the search and seizure decree of July 2025, which describes in detail a plant in which the urban planning rules of the city were emptied from the inside to encourage multimillic real estate operations.
According to the Prosecutor, the apparatus revolved around an occult control room, with Marinoni to orchestrate “” detail “urban strategies for strategic areas of the city – Cascina Gobba, Famagosta, San Donato, Linate, Assago, Figino, Baggio – all subject of analysis and masterplan produced privately, paid by Real Estate operators and at the same time evaluated by the commission chaired by him. The decree shows that Marinoni He received “parcels” by hundreds of thousands of euros by numerous companies involved in the building interventions assessed by himself. And everything happened while Marinonievery week, signed declarations of non -existence of conflicts of interest expressly requested by the Municipality of Milan. The cards report at least 13 occasions when this declaration was false.
However, it is not only the conduct of a single, but of an institutional system that has allowed, favored or covered its activities. The city council, highlights the Prosecutor, sponsored in January 2023 – through a resolution signed by Tancredi and approved by the Executive – the “Nodi and Metropolitan Porto Milano 2050” study “, entrusting him precisely to the Marinoni studio, despite being already president of the Commission. Not only that: on 22 December 2024, Marinoni He was reconfirmed in the Commission for the following four years 2025-2029, with appointment formalized by the Mayor Roomdespite having received a guarantee notice for over a month.
The same Tancrediaccording to the magistrates, exerted direct pressure on Marinoni To guide the commission’s assessments, not only for the benefit of the J+S, but also in favor of the P39 project – Torre Botany and Pirellino, promoted by Coima e Stefano Boeri. The Commission, which initially expressed a negative opinion, changes orientation on October 5, 2023 after Boerdesigner, would have – according to what is reported in the interceptions – informed “personally the mayor Room to obtain their support “. Tancredireporting this fact to Marinonihe exerts pressure to overturn the outcome. And so it happens. The Commission expresses a favorable opinion, useful indispensable for obtaining building authorizations. Also on the meazza affair, the San Siro stadium, it emerges that Marinoni and the entrepreneur Massimo Caputi they were looking for political shores to obtain assignments in the redevelopment of the area, «on which the mayor Room He had to make a decision ».
But the heart of the investigation is not only in individual corruption. The decree denounces a degeneration of the city’s decision -making system, where a commission appointed by the mayor – with merely consultative tasks – actually becomes a discretionary body, capable of derogating from the constraints of the PGT, acting in agreement with the private individuals and with a part of the municipal administration. The technicians of the Municipality, defined in the “frightened” documents by the volumes and the proposed heights, were “motivated” by Tancredi to express favorable opinions. The urbanization charges were underestimated, the building transformations qualified irregularly (for example as a “renovation” instead of “new construction”), and the conventions entered into by derogation from current regulations, without going through the city council.
Room It is not investigated. However, his name constantly resorts. He is the one who signs the appointments, who received direct information from the designers, who is the last decision maker in some key projects. The administration he led he has never raised the incompatibility of Tancredialready the subject of anac observations (a manager of a municipality with a population greater than 15,000 inhabitants cannot assume the political role in the same municipality), nor has it ever removed or suspended Marinoni Until his forced resignation in April 2025. The Prosecutor does not use a maximum of terms: “The municipal offices, rather than the garrison of the public interest, have been asserted the usefulness of a restricted and elitist circle of private subjects”. The system, add the magistrates, was made possible by “a chain of omissions, covers and political pressures”, which the city will now have to look in the face. Is it possible that the mayor and the junta did not notice anything? Not even after the last year of investigations?
