The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has brought fraud charges against four people, including a former director, relating to the collapse of the British cafe and cake chain Patisserie Valerie.
The company, which ran almost 200 high street cafes in the UK, collapsed in early 2019, just months after reports emerged of a multimillion-pound black hole in its finances, which was blamed on “potentially fraudulent” accounting irregularities.
