Milan prosecutors seek dismissal for Mayor Sala, Boeri and Catella in urbanism probe

The request

Prosecutors in Milan have asked for the positions of Mayor Giuseppe Sala, former urban regeneration assessore Giancarlo Tancredi, architect Stefano Boeri and Coima chief executive Manfredi Catella to be dismissed. All four were under investigation in the urbanism probe. The same request covers Giuseppe Marinoni, former president of the landscape commission, and Alessandro Scandurra, a former member of that body. Reports published on 10 November 2026 say the allegations were corruption, undue inducement and false documents, and the request applies to all suspects in this strand. The request is not yet a dismissal, because a preliminary investigation judge must decide on it in the coming days.

How the case reached this point

The investigation came to a head in the summer of 2025. Prosecutors sought precautionary measures in June 2025, and arrests followed in the summer. The Tribunale del Riesame annulled those arrests in July 2025, and the Court of Cassation also annulled them. The preliminary investigation judge, Mattia Fiorentini, had signed the custody order but did not recognise undue inducement by the mayor. The Cassation also held that payments Coima made for professional assignments to Scandurra did not amount to an illicit remuneration for a public official. The case later split into several strands, each with different charges and outcomes.

The Pirellino project

The Pirellino redevelopment on Via Melchiorre Gioia was one of the projects at the centre of the file. The prosecutors' hypothesis was that Catella and Boeri pressed, through contacts with Tancredi and Sala, for a favourable opinion from the landscape commission led by Marinoni. The request also seeks dismissal of the undue inducement charge linked to this project, in which Sala was investigated for falsification. Documents cited in the reports include a 21 June 2023 message from Boeri to Sala about a planned commission hearing on the Bosco Verticale project in Porta Nuova.

Prosecutors' reasoning and next steps

In a note, chief prosecutor Marcello Viola set out the office's position on the evidence:

“the evidence gathered does not allow a reasonable prediction of conviction”

According to the prosecutors, conflicts of interest and failures to abstain, while present, do not prove a link between the benefits received and the exercise of public functions. The request follows the reasoning of the Riesame and the Cassation on the lack of proof for corruption. The judge for preliminary investigations will now rule on the request in the coming days.