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Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster)
Giovanni Di Stefano (born 1 July 1955) is an Italian businessman and convicted fraudster based in the United Kingdom. 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 Milošević. He was also a business associate of the Serbian paramilitary leader and indicted war criminal Arkan.〔
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, in March 2013, saw him being 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Self-styled 'lawyer' jailed for 14 for deception, fraud and money laundering )〕
== Life and career ==
Di Stefano was born in Petrella Tifernina near Campobasso in Southern Italy. When his father emigrated to England to work in a shoe factory, Giovanni and his mother later followed settling in Irchester, Northamptonshire when Giovanni was six years old.〔〔 He then went on to study at John Lea School in Wellingborough, and later spent one year at Wellingborough Grammar School (which later became Wrenn School).〔〔 In his 1986 fraud trial〔 and in his entry in Marquis Who's Who〔 he claimed that he had obtained a PhD in law from Cambridge University around this time, but this claim was later found to be without foundation.〔 (registration required)〕〔 In his twenties, he claimed to have 'earned a fortune importing videotapes' from Hong Kong.〔〔 Despite living much of his early life in England, he considered himself an Italian.〔 During this time at school in England he was often called "John", the English for "Giovanni".〔〔〔
Di Stefano lived in England until 1989. He then moved to several locations: Los Angeles between 1989 and 1992. In 1992 his bid to buy the MGM movie studios failed, and he fled to Yugoslavia because the Breakup of Yugoslavia had made it a war zone and nobody would look for him there.〔 Once in Yugoslavia, he became a friend of its then-president Slobodan Milosevic who granted him Yugoslav nationality with a Yugoslavian passport. Additionally, he became a spokesman, a business partner, and a personal legal representative of the Serbian warlord Arkan.〔〔〔 He also served as general in the Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), although he never fought.〔〔 He stayed in Serbia until 1999; and later, Italy from 1999 to 2011, while working in the UK as a lawyer. In 2011 he was arrested and extradited to the UK because he didn't have the legal requisites necessary to work as a lawyer on the UK. In 2013 he was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment in a UK prison.〔
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