Beic case: Boeri and Cino Zucchi on trial for disruption and forgery

Milan, 16 February (LaPresse) – Stefano Boeri will face trial on charges of bid rigging and forgery in relation to the international design competition for the European Library of Information and Culture (Beic) in Porta Vittoria, Milan. This was decided by the Milan preliminary hearing judge, Fabrizio Filice, who, at the end of the preliminary hearing, committed the president of the Triennale and five other defendants to trial, including Politecnico professor Paolo Cino Zucchi and architects Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Angelo Raffaele Lunati, Giancarlo Floridi and Andrea Caputo. The trial will begin on 7 April before the second section of the Milan Court. The request of prosecutors Giancarla Serafini, Paolo Filippini and Mauro Clerici, who coordinated the investigation by the Nucleo pef of the Guardia di Finanza, was accepted. However, the requests for acquittal by the defence team, including Professor Francesco Mucciarelli (for Boeri) and lawyers Giovanni Bellingardigli, Guido Camera and Nicolò Pelanda, were rejected. The six professionals are accused of violating “anonymity” during “the evaluation process of the projects in competition” for the €8.6 million international tender in July 2022, which provided for a mechanism of secrecy of proposals and anti-conflict of interest with a double mandate (before and after the discovery of the projects).