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For other people named Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster), see Giovanni Di Stefano (fraudster) (disambiguation).
Giovanni Di Stefano

Giovanni Di Stefano (born 1 July 1955) is an Italian lawyer who practises occasionally in the United Kingdom. Based in Italy, he has made a reputation in the United Kingdom for acting for high-profile defendants in England and Wales. His work defending notorious clients has earned him the nickname by the European media[1][2] as "The Devil's Advocate".[nb 1] He was a business associate of Serbian paramilitary leader Arkan (Željko Ražnatović)[3][2] and was one of the defence team in the trial of Saddam Hussein.[4][5] Additionally, he has founded a political party, taken a considerable interest in football, and been a music producer.

Biography

Di Stefano was born in Petrella Tifernina near Campobasso in rural southern Italy. When his father emigrated to England to work in a shoe factory, Giovanni and his mother followed later to Irchester in Northamptonshire (Giovanni was six years old).[6][7][1] He then went on to study at Wellingborough Grammar School (which later became Wrenn School)..[6][8][9] In his twenties, he earned a fortune importing videotapes from Hong Kong.[1][6] Despite living much of his early life in England, he considered himself an Italian.[10] During this time in England he was known as "John Di Stefano".[11][12][13]

Di Stefano lived in England until 1989. He then proceeded to live in several locations: Los Angeles between 1989 and 1992[citation needed]; Serbia from 1992 to 1999[citation needed]; and later, Italy from 1999 to present-day. Once in Yugoslavia, he then became a friend of its then-president Slobodan Milosevic who granted him Yugoslav nationality with a Yugoslavian passport.[8] Additionally, he became a spokesman, a business partner, and a personal lawyer of the Serbian warlord Arkan.[14][2][3]

chuff Di Stefano runs an international legal practice from offices in Rome, the Studio Legale Internazionale.[15] He has been involved in a number of cases in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland,[16] and is well documented in the UK media for defending "some of the country's most notorious villains".[1] He once commented that he would "...defend Adolf Hitler or Satan."[1] He explains: he "defends the indefensible",[14][10] which is also the name of his autobiography.[17] He seems to be proud of his reputation for defending indefensible persons like convicted paedophiles, murderers, warlords, and other controversial persons.[10] When asked about his motivations, he replies, "No one's ever asked, 'Does Satan have a case? Does he have a good case?'"[10]

The Scotsman describes Di Stefano as a "colourful and often controversial lawyer";[18] The Guardian has called him "surely the only man in the world to claim the personal friendship of Saddam Hussein and the personal enmity of Delia Smith".[2]

Notable cases

Notable clients that Giovanni Di Stefano has defended include: Saddam Hussein;[19] Tariq Aziz;[20] Patrick Holland;[21] Jeremy Bamber;[22] Nicholas van Hoogstraten;[23] John Gilligan;[24] Charles Bronson; [25][26] Ali Hassan al-Majid (known as Chemical Ali, whose death sentence Di Stefano is trying to overturn);[26] Gary Glitter (pop star);[27] Birgit Cunningham (on her child support payment complaints against the son of billionaire Sir Nicholas Nuttal);[28] and Ian Strachan (one of the defendants in the 2007 royal blackmail plot).[29] He has also represented Ronald Biggs (one of the Great Train Robbers) in his claims for release from prison.[30]

Di Stefano's website (Studio Legale Internazionale) has hosted a petition to free Ronald Biggs since at least April 2006,[31] and, on January 2009, he had received 10,000 letters from supporters.[32] He sent those letters to the Parole Board officials as part of an appeal to free Biggs so he wouldn't die behind bars.[32]

In 2003, while being defended by Di Stefano, John "Goldfinger" Palmer avoided paying 33 million pounds from a timeshare fraud.[33]

On 17 March 2007, Di Stefano wrote to Lord Goldsmith (at that time the Attorney General for England and Wales) asking for leave to prosecute Judge Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (the judge who had sentenced Saddam Hussein) under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957.[34] On 14 January 2008, Di Stefano was reported as saying, "Hurried justice is no justice"—after a UK client (who had won £1million in the National Lottery) failed to attend court as a witness in an assault case. Di Stefano stated in court that his client had booked a holiday to Spain before being summoned and had not been able to prepare her statement on her return, yet the judge jailed her for 14 days anyway.[35]

In January 2007 Di Stefano asked the International Criminal Court to make a full investigation on the Al-Dujail trials of Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Iraq's judiciary head Awad Hamed al-Bandar.[36] Di Stefano circulated a note handwritten by Barzan where he explains that he wasn't responsible for the killings at Dujail for which he was sentenced to death.[36]

In October 2007 he complained that the investigation of Blackwater's civilian deaths on Iraq was unjust because they were forced to operate in a climate and conditions that didn't allow them to ask first and shoot later when they were under attack.[37]

Also in October 2007 he argued that Iraqi officials had to accept a pardon application for Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) because the 30-day execution window set the trial had passed, otherwise it would be an illegal execution.[38][39] The US military later refused to release Ali for his execution until the legal questions were solved.[40] Ali was sentenced to death again on February 2008 for different charges.[41] The execution was further delayed on December 2008 as a new trial has been opened against him with different charges.[41]

Further, in October 2007 he asked the British Secretary of State for posthumous pardon of Hawley Harvey Crippen, on the basis of new forensic evidence indicating that the body found was not that of his wife, and a letter from his wife that was sent after the date of the alleged murder and was never presented on the trial, and that he never murdered her.[42][43] The request was filed on behalf of the doctor's last living relative.[44][43]

On 15 January 2008 Di Stefano said that he knew of a sixth victim of Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley called Jennifer Tighe[45] who he said had disappeared after saying she was going to the cinema in Manchester on 30 December 1964.[46] He said he had a photo of her, and intended to speak to Brady to see if the killer would confess to this latest allegation.[47] On 21 January 2008 the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) issued a statement saying that Jennifer Tighe was alive and that the suggestion that she was a victim was speculative and had no basis in fact. The spokesman added "Mr. Di Stefano has previously made claims regarding the Moors murders in the media but has not provided any detail to Greater Manchester Police."[48] On that same day Di Stefano replied citing email correspondence with the GMP and inviting them to interview his client, who he said had always been "ready, willing and able" to assist with any inquiry. He also stated that no evidence had been supplied by the GMP other than a statement that Tighe was actually alive, and invited the GMP to provide proper evidence.[49]

Ian Brady has been force-fed at a top security hospital since he started a hunger strike on 2001. In September 2007, Ian applied via Di Stefano to be moved to a conventional jail where he intended to starve himself to death.[50] Later, on November 2008, when Ian was still being force-fed, Giovanni accused the state of legally starving Ian to death by not giving him enough food.[51] Di Stefano states that Ian is bound to die in three months unless he is made to eat more.[51]

Di Stefano was arrested in June 1984 and charged with fraud before being released on bail.[52] He was again arrested in august of that year and on this occasion was first unable to meet bail conditions and was later refused bail.[52] In 1986, Di Stefano was convicted after a 78-day trial and was jailed for five years.[6][52] Di Stefano reports being motivated by "a sense of injustice" after his 1986 conviction for fraud "was quashed".[53] According toThe Scotsman records show that Di Stefano's first attempt to appeal the conviction was dismissed.[13] He also unsuccessfully appealed in 1989 to the European Commission of Human Rights alleging that his arrest violated the European Convention on Human Rights.[52] Di Stefano claimed in a BBC article that the conviction was quashed on the second appeal and that "a sense of injustice remains, making each victory against the system a sweet revenge."[53] The charges were for conspiracy to obtain property by deception and fraudulent trading.[6]

In 2002 the Governor of HM Prison Belmarsh barred Di Stefano's access to a client in prison. The restriction was appealed to the High Court of Justice in R (Van Hoogstraten) v Governor of Belmarsh Prison[54][55] which ruled against the prison governor.[56][57] The decision held that the governor's challenge to Di Stefano's credentials was not filed in a timely manner, and that some evidence suggested Di Stefano was an Italian lawyer and that Italian lawyers, as a rule, were permitted visitation in British prisons as European lawyers. The justice further ruled that since denying Di Stefano's visits to the prisoner would cause severe prejudice to the client's legal defence, he could not be denied that right until a timely and successful challenge was made.[nb 2][59]

On 15 January 2004, The Guardian reported[33] that Di Stefano's legal status was under investigation by the British police and the Law Society.[15] Following that investigation no action was taken against him.[nb 3] The Law Society declared that he was not registered as an European lawyer,[61] and that they were unable to verify either his legal qualifications or his status as a foreign lawyer despite going to considerable lengths, and despite asking Di Stefano himself for the information.[33] Di Stefano claims that he does not need to register with either the Law Society nor with any Italian bar association in order to practice in the UK.[33]

In 1990, Giovanni Di Stefano travelled to New Zealand, where he made several multi-million dollar bids on property on behalf of a Beverly Hills-based company.[11][62][63][64][65] The authorities discovered that he had not disclosed a conviction in England in 1986, declared him a prohibited immigrant, and he was subsequently returned to his country of origin.[11][64][12]

Around 1992, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service deported him from the United States due to a fraud conviction in the UK in 1986. Months later he applied for a non-immigrant visa for re-entry, and was told that he needed a waiver of grounds of inadmissibility to be eligible.[66] The waiver application was denied by the federal agency, causing the visa to also be denied.[66] In 1993 he appealed to a United States District Court, which ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to review the denial of a waiver application.[66] In 1995, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court, ruling that Di Stefano did not have standing to challenge the waiver denial under the Immigration and Nationality Act.[66] Di Stefano reports being able to enter the United States since then for limited periods of time through the Visa Waiver Program.[verification needed]

Other interests

Football

When he went back to Italy to his birth region, he bought the local team Campobasso Calcio,[14] altought the club had to close a year later due to financial problems. In association with Arkan he purchased control of the Serbian second division football club FK Obilić;[67] within two seasons the club had won a place in the UEFA Champions League. Di Stefano announced his intention to purchase Dundee F.C. in 1999, however his bid failed due to adverse publicity.[67] In January 2001, Di Stefano announced his intention to purchase a stake in Norwich City F.C. from its former vice-chairman, however the deal failed to materialise.[68] In 2002, Di Stefano entered into talks to purchase a 60% stake in Northampton Town F.C.,[69] however Di Stefano's valuation of the club changed following an EGM, and the deal fell through.[70] Di Stefano approached the Dundee board again in 2003, and was appointed as a director on 7 August 2003.[67] Initially the club attracted big-name players such as Craig Burley and Fabrizio Ravanelli, but the club quickly ran into financial difficulties, 15 senior players were released from their contracts,[71] and Di Stefano resigned from the club in 22 January 2004.[72] In April 2005, he proclaimed an interest in investing approximately €1m in Irish football club Shelbourne F.C.,[73] but the club rejected his interest, citing his decision to let his intentions be known to the media first as the reason.[74] In October 2007, Di Stefano announced through his website his renewed interest in taking control of Norwich City F.C.[75]

Music producer

In 2007, he produced and launched Seriously Single, an album by Italian singer JustCarmen that put a relatively unknown singer into the studio with recordings of big stars from the past. The album was a minor hit, selling 40,000 copies, but some of the duet tracks got 650,000 downloads.[76] Apparently, this is what prompted Decca Records to release a hits package of The Bachelors that made it to the top 40 on the UK, with that package including their I Believe duet with JustCarmen.[77][76] In 2009 he produced and launched a second album by JustCarmen, I wish u love, which has two new duets with The Bachelors.[78][76]

His interest on music comes from his youth, when he played guitar themes and organized music events at his school house.[9] The Daily Star reported he had a single hit at age 15 on his native Italy.[77] He has also released in 2009 a CD with his own songs The Next Time.[79][80]

Founder of political party

In April 2004, Di Stefano founded a political party,[81] the Radical Party of Great Britain, by registering it at the Electoral Commission with himself as its leader,[82] but the party fielded no candidates in the 2005 general election, the 2008 London Assembly election, or the 2008 local elections.

In a November 2007 interview with Dublin's Hot Press magazine's senior editor Jason O'Toole, , Di Stefano expressed an interest in running in the Republic of Ireland in the European Union elections with an anti-immigration manifesto.[nb 4]

Around 1999-2002 he had been the secretary general of the "right wing but not fanatical" Partito Nazionale Italiano.[69][7][83] In 1999 he was also the foreign speaker of the Party of the Serbian Unit of his friend Arkan.[7]

Complaint against Wikipedia

On 2 July 2008, Irish magazine Hot Press reported Di Stefano's claim that he had lodged a formal complaint to the Rome Public Prosecutor alleging defamation committed against him by representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation and several editors who had edited the article about him.[84] Di Stefano explained that, unlike other EU states, under Italian law defamation is a criminal offence.[84]

Notes

  1. ^ The sobriquet The Devil's advocate has been used by the European press to describe not only Giovanni Di Stefano but also Jacques Verges.
  2. ^ The right of a qualified European Union lawyer to practise in a country other than their country of origin was, until July 1 2007, governed by the provisions of the (United Kingdom) European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978 (SI 1978/1910) (Amended 2004).[58]
  3. ^ "A spokesman for the City of London Police said: 'We are not prepared to confirm or deny whether we have an investigation at this stage.'"—The Independent (see paragraph 11)[60]
  4. ^ "I'm going to run in Ireland in the European elections. You better believe it. I'm perfectly entitled in the European election to run in any EU state. You don't need to be resident or Irish. I will take my seat in Ireland because a lot of people will follow me. We are not a right-wing party. We may be radical in name but not in nature. One of the things we'll have to deal with, as a matter of urgency, is immigration. That is the key thing because otherwise you are going to dilute Irish blood to such an extent that you'll almost wish that Cromwell hadn't got ill!" -- Paid access. A free PDF version of the article is hosted at Di Stefano's website.

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