Milan, 22 August (LaPresse) – Manfredi Catella is free again. The Milan Review Court has revoked the house arrest ordered on 31 July by investigating magistrate Mattia Fiorentini for corruption against the founder and CEO of Coima in the urban planning investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office. It will take 45 days to learn the reasons for the decision and whether the annulment of the order concerns serious evidence or precautionary requirements and, therefore, the need to deprive Milan's most important real estate developer of his freedom. Ten days ago, a different panel of judges overturned the house arrest for Alessandro Scandurra, the former member of the landscape commission who, according to prosecutors Petruzzella, Filippini, Clerici and Siciliano, was corrupted by Catella himself, and the preventive detention in prison for the builder Andrea Bezziccheri. The following week, the judges replaced the arrests with one-year suspensions for former councillor Giancarlo Tancredi, former commission president Giuseppe Marinoni, and entrepreneur Federico Pella, reclassifying the charges against all of them from corruption for acts contrary to official duties to corruption in the exercise of their functions.
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