Overview
- The Sixth Criminal Section confirmed the Riesame’s annulment of arrests for Manfredi Catella, Alessandro Scandurra and Andrea Bezziccheri.
- Written reasons will be filed in the coming weeks, and defense lawyers argued the appeal omitted the required showing of current precautionary needs that the section has often treated as a threshold issue since 2018.
- Procurator general Cristina Marzagalli urged rejection of the appeals, noting the case file did not demonstrate an agreement to trade favors and that payments to Scandurra were consistent with documented professional work.
- Prosecutors had advanced a theory of a broader urban-planning “system” based on conflicts of interest, but judges insisted on concrete evidence of an exchange rather than inferring corruption from frequent contacts.
- The court also annulled the interdiction measures applied to Giancarlo Tancredi, Giuseppe Marinoni and Federico Pella after the Riesame had replaced their house arrest with those bans.