A Milan judge on Monday shelved
a probe into Milan Mayor Giuseppe (Beppe) Sala for suspected
fraud on commemorative coins for the 2015 Milan Expo, of which
he was CEO and commissioner.
The judge rejected an appeal from the company that got the
license for the memorabilia and upheld a prosecutors' petition
to shelve the case.
Earlier this month another Milan judge granted a prosecutor's
request to extend a probe into a major contract for Milan Expo
2015, the Piastra (pavement) project, by six months.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, the former Expo commissioner, is
among seven people under investigation in the probe.
Sala, who won city elections last year at the helm of a
centre-left ticket, briefly suspended himself last month after
it emerged he was under investigation in relation to the Piastra
project to create the platform on which the Expo pavilions
were built.
He denies any wrongdoing.
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