Lucien Ekamba-Elombe, 50, of Union Hall Road, Newcastle, secretly set up a new recruitment firm after his previous business collapsed and continued to act as a director despite being disqualified.
He fraudulently claimed a £30,000 Bounce Back Loan under the Government’s Covid-19 scheme and used company funds to purchase two properties worth more than £190,000.
David Snasdell, chief investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: “Lucien Ekamba-Elombe’s criminal actions were calculated, persistent and wide-ranging.
“This was a prolonged and deliberate course of offending that touched almost every aspect of insolvency law.
“Ekamba-Elombe abused Covid support funds, ran a phoenix company while bankrupt and carried on…