Tyneside pizza boss jailed after gambling with money from £150,000 Covid loan fraud

Matthew Temple obtained three £50,000 Bounce Back Loans for the same Whitley Bay pizza business More than £131,000 of the £150,000 was not used wholly for business purposes, including money spent on gambling and children’s toys Temple was jailed for two years after admitting three fraud offences A Tyneside pizza company boss who fraudulently secured £150,000 in Covid loans before company funds were spent on gambling and children’s toys has been jailed. Matthew Temple obtained three £50,000 Bounce Back Loans for Pizza Cottage (Whitley Bay) Limited, which traded as Pizza Cottage on East Parade in Whitley Bay. The 44-year-old, known as Mehdi Ghaneh-Keisami when the offences were committed, secured all three loans