Christopher Marsh’s wife Louise is among those charged.
The former chief financial officer of the company behind bakery Patisserie Valerie has been charged with fraud alongside three others, including his wife.
The SFO accused the four of “conspiring to inflate the cash in Patisserie Holdings’ balance sheets and annual reports from 2015 to 2018,” it said on Wednesday.This included “providing false documentation to the company’s auditors”. The SFO’s investigation was launched in 2018 into a case that saw the bakery chain tumble into administration with a £94 million hole in it accounts in early 2019.
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