Milan, 16 September (LaPresse) – The ‘simplification of the argument’ by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office and the investigating magistrate in the urban planning investigation, according to which ‘the existence of a payment and the performance of public functions in an alleged conflict of interest would be sufficient to consider a corrupt agreement to exist’, is ‘degrading’. These are the reasons why the Milan Review Court in August overturned the order for preventive custody under house arrest against architect Alessandro Scandurra, a former member of the landscape commission under investigation for alleged corruption by Coima di Manfredi Catella and Bluestone entrepreneur Andrea Bezziccheri, who was also released after being placed in custody in prison. For judges Pendino-Ghezzi-Papagno, “it is not clear on the basis of what evidence” it was “considered that the design assignments were entrusted to Scandurra because of his public function” within the landscape commission and “not because of his freelance work”, which he carries out at a “high level” as a “recipient” of “international awards”. For the Review Court, the “corrupt agreement” has not been “proven” and a “confusing factual picture” emerges that “does not allow us to assess whether Scandurra had actually gathered around him a circle of entrepreneurs determined to pay him to obtain favourable opinions from the landscape commission” or not.