Jail for conman who claimed Vatican connections to swindle firm out of £88m

A Maltese conman who claimed he had strong connections with the Vatican to swindle a shipping firm out of £88m was jailed for eight years today (mon). Paul Sultana, 51, said his uncle was the Pope’s secretary and boasted he could get returns of 1,200 per cent a year by using the pontiff’s secret trading platform. Sultana and his associates made outlandish claims about their influence, which stretched from the US Federal Reserve to the Vatican while in contact with…