Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Italian-born British businessman and convicted fraudster
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Place of Birth: Petrella Tifernina, Molise, Italy
About Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster)
- Giovanni Di Stefano (born 1 July 1955) is an English businessman and convicted fraudster.
- He has been involved in legal cases for high-profile notorious defendants worldwide; he has no legal qualifications and is not registered to work as an advocate in the UK or Italy.
- He has been referred to as "The Devil's Advocate" for his advocacy on behalf of such claimed clients as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Miloševic.
- He was also a business associate of the Serbian paramilitary leader and indicted war criminal Željko Ražnatovic.He has been convicted four times in Ireland and the United Kingdom of fraud and related criminal offences, serving a total of eight and a half years for convictions between 1975 and the late 1980s.
- He was described by a judge as "one of life's great swindlers".
- His most recent conviction was in March 2013 when he was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment after being found guilty or pleading guilty to 27 charges including deception, fraud and money laundering between 2001 and 2011 related to "tricking people into thinking he was a bona fide legal professional".
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