Four people - two from Hertfordshire - have appeared in court over the collapse of bakery chain Patisserie Valerie.
Christopher Marsh, a former director and chief financial officer of Patisserie Holdings, the company behind Patisserie Valerie, and his wife, accountant Louise Marsh, were charged by the Serious Fraud Office .Allwyn signs at Camelot's former Watford HQ approved
An investigation was launched by the SFO in 2018 into a case which saw the bakery chain, which had 200 stores, tumble into administration with a £94 million hole in its accounts in 2019. The four defendants sat side by side in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday , speaking only to confirm their names and addresses.
Christopher Marsh, 49, and Louise Marsh, 55, both from St Albans, Hertfordshire, Mistry, 41, from Leicester, and Lad, 50, from Harrow, north-west London, all face charges of conspiracy to defraud.Christopher Marsh, Mistry and Lad also face five charges of fraud by false representation and one of making or supplying an article for use in fraud.None of the defendants were asked to enter any pleas.
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