2013. Vice-president and assessor in the Lombardy Region Following the regional elections in Lombardy in 2013, he was elected regional councilor on the PdL list, being the most voted among all the candidates with almost 13,000 preferences. He was subsequently appointed by the president Roberto Maroni as vice president of the Lombardy Region and Assessor for health. On 1 September 2015, after the regional health reform with the creation of the super-department between Health and Welfare, he left the regional health department (which will be governed ad interim by President Maroni) for the delegation of regional councilor for Relations with European Union, Community Planning and International Relations, until 13 October 2015. In December 2016 he joined Daniela Santanchè's movement We Republicans – Sovereign People. He follows the party colleague also in January 2018, leaving his party, Forza Italia, and joining the movement led by Giorgia Meloni, Brothers of Italy. Judicial proceedings On 13 October 2015, he was arrested in Milan, accused of corruption, bid-rigging, and misdirection of public funds for school construction and patients needing dialysis transport, between 2012 and 2014, while Vice President of Lombardy. In 2019 he has been sentenced to five years and six months for corruption, extortion and auction disruption. References External links 1950 births Living people People from the Province of Milan Forza Italia MEPs MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 MEPs for Italy 1999–2004 Forza Italia politicians The People of Freedom politicians Forza Italia (2013) politicians Brothers of Italy politicians