Ex footballer invested money for church as ‘a blessing’ – and lost them £3.5million

A former Premier League footballer invested £5m for a church as ‘blessing’ – and lost them £3.5 million, a court heard. Ex-Charlton Athletic defender Richard Rufus, 47, allegedly offered to personally guarantee the investment of the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC)and said he had worked with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs James McGlashan, Chief Operations Officer at the church said he was a member of the church board when Rufus submitted a CV applying to become a trustee of the…