Legal
Four Plead Not Guilty to Patisserie Valerie Accounting Fraud
- SFO accuses chief financial officer of inflating balance sheet
- London trial date for fraud charges set for March 2026
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Four people charged with fraud over the Patisserie Valerie accounting scandal that brought down the 90-year-old high-street bakery chain pleaded not guilty.
The Serious Fraud Office charged former chief financial officer of Patisserie Holdings Christopher Marsh, his wife Louise, financial controller Pritesh Mistry and consultant Nileshkumar Lad with inflating the cash in the firm’s balance sheets between 2015 and 2018.