We prove that the local eigenvalue statistics in the bulk for complex random matrices with independent entries whose r-th absolute moment decays as \(N^{-1-(r-2)\epsilon }\) for some \(\epsilon >0\) are universal. This includes sparse matrices whose entries are the product of a Bernouilli random variable with mean \(N^{-1+\epsilon }\) and an independent complex-valued random variable. By a standard truncation argument, we can also conclude universality for complex random matrices with \(4+\epsilon \) moments. The main ingredient is a sparse multi-resolvent local law for products involving any finite number of resolvents of the Hermitisation and deterministic \(2N\times 2N\) matrices whose \(N\times N\) blocks are multiples of the identity.