Lawyer ‘ran brazen legal aid fraud’

A lawyer, who owned a fleet of supercars, carried out a ‘brazen fraud’ worth millions of pounds against the Legal Aid Agency, a tribunal heard. John Blavo, 61, allegedly falsified documents on an industrial scale while head of Blavo & Co Solicitors Ltd. Blavo is not attending the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal where he could face being struck off in his absence. He is charged with submitting falsified documents to the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) relating to client files, medical reports…