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Guardia di Finanza Seizes Milan 'Unico‑Brera' Project as 27 Under Investigation

Prosecutors challenge the SCIA approvals by invoking a recent ruling that reconstruction must be contemporaneous with demolition.

Overview

  • Judge Mattia Fiorentini ordered a preventive seizure of the Unico‑Brera construction site in Via Anfiteatro 7, with Guardia di Finanza executing the decree.
  • Investigators list 27 suspects for alleged building abuses, unlawful land subdivision and falsification across developers, architects, former landscape‑commission members and municipal officials.
  • The development by Carlo and Stefano Rusconi’s RS Srl sought to replace two 18th‑century structures demolished in 2006 with an 11‑storey building comprising 27 apartments.
  • Prosecutors argue the works, green‑lit via SCIA as a 2019 ‘ristrutturazione edilizia’ and amended in 2023, could not qualify as restructuring on a long‑cleared lot.
  • The case leans on a Consiglio di Stato interpretation rejecting any transferable ‘volume credit,’ and the project’s architect, Marco Emilio Cerri, previously received a March interdiction for falsity in a connected probe.