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Apocalypse Bella

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The profile

An Oregon man sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $4,088,084.42 in restitution as the first-named defendant in a Southern District of New York PPP fraud case that, according to prosecutors, tried to obtain more than $30 million.

Identity and role

Apocalypse Bella, also known as "Dias Yumba," was the first-named of five defendants in United States v. Bella, No. 1:21-cr-00247-PAE, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer. The U.S. Attorney's Office gave Bella's age as 48 and home as Clackamas, Oregon.

The scheme and pandemic-relief role

According to the indictment unsealed on April 22, 2021, Bella, Mackenzy Toussaint and Amos Mundendi prepared and submitted fraudulent applications to the SBA and to at least one company that processed PPP applications, seeking at least about $14 million. Loans of about $4 million were approved for two companies in the Southern District of New York, and the money was sent on to bank accounts in the United States and elsewhere, including accounts controlled by Toussaint and Bella. By the time of the last sentencing in February 2023, prosecutors put the whole scheme at more than $30 million attempted and more than $15 million in actual loss.

Loan record: proceeds tied to Bella

The December 2021 superseding indictment alleges that in July and August 2020 about $729,550 moved from the first company's account to a bank account Bella controlled. At Mundendi's sentencing, Judge Engelmayer cited the presentence-report figure of about $730,000 received by Bella from the roughly $3.9 million paid out in the scheme's first round, more than nine times the roughly $78,000 the court attributed to Mundendi.

  • Arrested: March 18, 2021, in the Eastern District of Virginia.
  • Charged: sealed indictment filed April 14, 2021, on four counts, and unsealed April 22, 2021. The superseding indictment of December 7, 2021 (S3 21 Cr. 247) names Bella in Counts One through Four: conspiracy, major fraud against the United States, wire fraud conspiracy and wire fraud.
  • Pleaded guilty: the court's order of April 7, 2022 records that it had accepted guilty pleas from all five defendants. The date and count of Bella's plea are not in the filings we have.
  • Sentenced: October 27, 2022, to 40 months in prison, with $4,088,084.42 in restitution.
  • Co-defendants (DOJ): Toussaint, 90 months and $12,402,676.92 in restitution; Amos Mundendi, 42 months and $9,315,418; Brandon Jackson, 33 months and $1,772,453; Alvin Maxwell, 18 months and $1,696,534.63.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Public record on Apocalypse Bella after the October 2022 sentence is limited; this profile reflects the court record and DOJ releases as of September 25, 2026.

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