MoD fraudster gets three years and four months

A company chief who fleeced the Ministry of Defence out of more than £800,000 by selling useless underwater scanners has been jailed for more than three years. Carl Tiltman, 56, 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. Tiltman, who had worked as a sonar engineer for a government laboratory, lied to an official when promoting his firm’s services and equipment….