Milano, the starchitect Citterio defrauded of 4,5 million euros

Scammed without realizing it by his secretary and a bank official for 4 and a half million euros. The protagonist and victim of the scam is Antonio Citterio, 70 years old, one of the most famous starchitects and designers in the world («Compasso d'Oro» award in 1987 and 1994, works exhibited at the MoMa in New York and at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.

They were the soldiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Milano, by delegation of the local Public Prosecutor's Office (Dr. Giovanni Tarzia), are executing an order issued by the GIP of the Court of Milano, with which the personal precautionary measure of the obligation to reside was ordered against a suspect and the preventive seizure decree, on assets and assets for approximately 4,5 million euros, against another person under investigation. investigations conducted by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Milano made it possible to reveal how, in the years from 2013 to 2018, the two suspects carried out a complex and systematic fraudulent activity, to the detriment of a well-known Milanese architecture firm and its owner. In particular, the detailed investigations made it possible to reconstruct the illicit conduct perpetrated by the fifty-four-year-old secretary employed by the professional firm. It was she who, taking advantage of the delegation granted to operate on the firm's current accounts and, in fact, of being the only person to interface with the bank and with the complicity of the employee of the same bank now under investigation, collected these huge sums using tricks and deceptions against other bank officials, misled by the studio owner's placing false signatures on cash withdrawal slips, on over two hundred checks, as well as on requests to issue payment cards without his knowledge, used to purchases and cash withdrawals. The investigations, started in 2018 following a complaint from the offended party, revealed how the two suspects were able to steal, overall, huge financial resources, amounting to over four million euros, from the current accounts in the name of the professional firm, as well as to its owner, through the aforementioned unauthorized operations. The illicitly stolen money was used by one of the people investigated both in speculative activities, through a systematic and regular gambling activity, and in economic activities, investing in the renovation of a restaurant he owns in Chiavari in Liguria.