He carried out £800k fraud on the MOD

A company chief fleeced the Ministry of Defence out of more than £800,000 by selling equipment including underwater scanners that were ‘not fit for purpose’, a court heard. Carl Tiltman, 56, admitted conning the MoD into buying equipment he knew was useless, in a fraud carried out in Portland Dorset. Tiltman was the chief executive officer of Dorset-based Subsea Asset Location Technologies (Salt), set up in 2009 to provide underwater scanning technology and consultancy services to the MoD. But Tiltman,…