Russell Wallace has been appointed forensic technology director in West Yorkshire by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Mr Wallace (pictured), a director with more than 27 years’ investigations experience, has relocated from PwC’s Hong Kong office to head its new forensic laboratory Leeds, which served the whole northern region.

Mr Wallace, a former commercial crime agent with the New South Wales Police in Sydney, has applied forensic technology in support of fraud investigations, corruption and other financial crimes in emerging economies such as China and Asia for the past 10 years.

He joined PwC in Sydney in 2000 and spent the past nine years in Hong Kong drawing on his combined experience in law enforcement, computer forensics and database technology.