A FORMER Dundee Football Club director has appeared in court charged with falsely claiming to be a qualified Italian lawyer.
Giovanni di Stefano, 57, a lawyer who has represented a series of notorious crooks including Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and serial killer Harold Shipman, appeared at City of London Magistrates' Court accused of four counts of fraud by false representation, four counts of fraud by abuse of position, and two counts of using a false instrument with intent it be accepted as genuine.
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