‘Those signatures are forged!’

The son of a charity boss accused of laundering more than £10m from the illegal sale of Viagra and slimming pills has claimed his signatures were forged on documents. David Cohen, 38, and his father Edward, 67, are accused of running a ‘bewildering’ network of companies, some of them for promoting Orthodox Judaism and ‘helping the Jewish poor’. It is said the pair diverted vast sums of cash, alongside legitimate donations, via foreign exchange firms before sending it overseas. Edward…