Four Plead Not Guilty to Patisserie Valerie Accounting Fraud

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 HoldingsChristopher 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.

Christopher Marsh was charged with eight counts, while Lad and Mistry were charged with seven counts of accounting fraud. Louise Marsh was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud. All four defendants entered not guilty pleas to all charges ...