Ship fraud of ‘Vatican Conman’

A conman fleeced a Dutch shipping firm out of 100 million Euros (£88m) by claiming to have links to the Vatican, a court heard. Paul Sultana, 51, allegedly helped swindle Allseas Group Ltd as the company looked for big returns on a vessel they were building for a billion Euros. Sultana and his associates made outlandish claims about their influence, which stretched from the US Federal Reserve to the Vatican while in contact with Allseas boss Edward Hareema. Sultana wrote…