The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has brought fraud charges against four individuals, including a former director, who oversaw the financial failure of a chain of almost 200 high street bakeries.
After a five-year investigation codenamed Operation Venom, the SFO said it had charged former director and Chief Financial Officer of
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