Overview
- The Court of Cassation declared the Milan prosecutor’s appeal inadmissible, leaving in place the Riesame court’s August revocations of custody for Manfredi Catella, Alessandro Scandurra and Andrea Bezziccheri.
- The ruling confirms that the three main suspects remain free pending trial after the higher courts found insufficient serious indications to justify arrests for alleged corruption.
- The Cassation also annulled professional interdictions imposed on ex–city official Giancarlo Tancredi, former commission chair Giuseppe Marinoni and architect Federico Pella.
- The Cassation’s prosecutor general, Cristina Marzagalli, had advised rejecting the appeals, arguing the record did not show an operative corrupt agreement and that payments alone could reflect legitimate work.
- Milan prosecutors had advanced a theory of a systemic scheme and criticized the Riesame’s ‘atomistic’ analysis, while separate cases on alleged building and planning offenses continue in parallel.