'Make-believe lifestyle': Fraudster who fleeced girlfriend bid for Block Arcade, court told

By Adam Cooper
Updated April 8 2016 - 4:43pm, first published 4:05pm
Graeme Effrett lodged paperwork with a real estate agency handling the sale of the Block Arcade. Photo: Vince Caligiuri
Graeme Effrett lodged paperwork with a real estate agency handling the sale of the Block Arcade. Photo: Vince Caligiuri

He claimed to have so much: a successful career, a hold on a home in Brighton, overseas bank accounts and ambitions to buy a John Deere machinery business and even Melbourne's historic Block Arcade.

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