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Court hears Italian "Devil's Advocate" was fake lawyer

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Court hears Italian "Devil's Advocate" was fake lawyer

LONDON (Reuters) – An Italian man known as the “Devil’s Advocate” went on trial in London on Tuesday accused of posing as a lawyer to defraud 10 sets of victims of a total of almost one million pounds. Giovanni Di Stefano, 57, denies 25 offences of deception, fraud, money laundering and forgery allegedly committed between 2004 and 2012. Lawyer David Aaronberg, opening the case for the prosecution at Southwark Crown Court, said Di Stefano had no legal qualifications but had built a reputation as a lawyer willing to take on cases considered unwinnable or too difficult to defend.

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