- Lucien Ekamba-Elombe set up a phoenix company while bankrupt after failing to pay his council tax and hid his involvement behind an unwitting front man
- He fraudulently claimed a £30,000 Covid Bounce Back Loan he had no right to and transferred thousands to his own account
- Ekamba-Elombe also bought two properties using more than £190,000 of company money while banned as a director by a court
A Newcastle recruitment consultant has been sentenced for a string of offences including Covid fraud, flouting director disqualifications and running a phoenix company while bankrupt.
Lucien Ekamba-Elombe set up a recruitment firm under a similar name to his previous failed company while legally banned from doing so after failing to pay…