Maxi urban planning investigation, the prosecutor asks to dismiss Sala, Boeri, Catella

The Milan Prosecutor's Office has asked to dismiss the position of the mayor Giuseppe Sala, the former councilor for urban regeneration Giancarlo Tancredi, the architect Stefano Boeri, the CEO of Coima Manfredi Catella, investigated in the maxi investigation into urban planning. The dismissal is also proposed for the former president and for the former member of the landscape commission, Giuseppe Marinoni and Alessandro Scandurra.

The affair led to seven arrests in the summer of 2025 which were later annulled by the Review and Cassation (and also concerned the Pirellino project, in a separate vein). The hypotheses contested in various ways were corruption, undue inducement and forgery.

The line for which the prosecutor's office requested the dismissal is the most impactful from a political point of view, also because it led to precautionary custody for a month. But in the meantime, the first trials, again on the illegal development, also led to the first acquittals.

However, we can try to draw a line in this maxi investigation: the prosecutor's office had to retrace its steps itself, as there was evidently not enough evidence to prove corruption. The main crime on which the investigations could have been based, abuse of office, was not used and was therefore decriminalized. The consequences of the investigations, however, have left profound marks from an administrative point of view, effectively pushing the Municipality to review its practices: the role of the landscape commission has been reduced, variations have been inserted in the PGT, and entrepreneurs have been forced to use the implementation plans as a priority.