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In 2018, the Paris public prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation against Vivastreet on charges of aggravated pimping, the MP Carolyn Harris told the committee last week. The Home Office has met representatives of Vivastreet on 15 occasions since 2017, according to a response to a parliamentary written question. Johnson and fellow MPs questioned the police’s strategy at a committee meeting investigating modern slavery. At a previous hearing, Neelam Patankar, Vivastreet’s managing director, told the committee she was not in a position to discuss the status of the investigation. “For France, any interaction was prior to my position in post, I’m afraid. I am aware of the same information that you probably are. I cannot really give you anything more than that, unfortunately,” she said.