Prosecutor files to dismiss Sala case

(ANSA) - Milan, June 24 - The Milan prosecutor's office on Friday filed to dismiss a case against the city's new Mayor Beppe Sala of the Democratic Party (PD) accused of failing to declare ownership of property including a house in Switzerland, prior to his election.
    The State attorney's office filed to dismiss on the grounds that the case did not concern a criminal offense.
    The probe kicked off in April after city councilor Riccardo De Corato, a member of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FDL) party, denounced that Sala had failed to declare properties in a mandatory self-certification for civil servants, which he filed in February 2015 when he was commissioner of Milan's Universal Exposition.
    Sala reportedly declared the properties- including the Swiss home and a real estate firm in Romania - in his income tax returns.