Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster)

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Giovanni Di Stefano (born 1955 or 1956 (age 70–71)) is an Italian-British businessman and convicted fraudster. He has been involved in legal cases for high-profile and notorious defendants worldwide. He has no legal qualifications, is barred from working in law in the UK, 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 claimed advocacy on behalf of such notorious clients as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milošević. He was also a business associate of Željko Ražnatović, a Serbian paramilitary leader and indicted war criminal. 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...

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