San Siro Stadium: Searches in progress for bid rigging
Nine people under investigation, including former councillors of the City of Milan and the Director-General
by Sara Monaci
As part of the complex dossier on the sale of the Milan stadium, searches were carried out by the Pef nucleus of the Gdf of Milan in the offices and homes of the director of Milan, Christian Malangone, the former councillor Giancarlo Tancredi (in this investigation as former Rup) and Inter's consultant Ada Lucia De Cesaris. In all, there are nine suspects. Searches also continued in the offices of the company M-I srl, Milan and Inter.
The other names entered in the register of suspects are Simona Collarini, the former planning director of the municipality; Fabrizio Grena, another Inter advisor; Giuseppe Bonomi and Marta Spaini, Milan's consultant; and finally the two Inter managers, former ad-manager Alessandro Antonello and attorney Mark Van Huuksloot.
The motive is the possible crime of bid-rigging and revealing the secrecy of administrative acts. Under the lens ended the tender for the area of San Siro, where a few days ago the reclamation works for the construction of the new stadium have just started.
According to the Milan prosecutor's office, the municipality would never have put the market out to tender and considered it properly, choosing instead a privileged dialogue with the two teams that already managed the Meazza stadium.
The municipality claims to have chosen the 2021 'Stadiums Law' as a regulatory reference. However, in this choice, it has been ambivalent: first it took the path of direct negotiation, then it moved on to the construction of an ad hoc tender, according to the investigators, tailor-made for the teams, to avoid political controversy and reassure those who accused the top management of Palazzo Marino of not having imagined alternative solutions. The result is that today the city's top management is accused of not having followed the procedures correctly and of committing bid-rigging.
