TONY Parton has joined the forensic services team at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Yorkshire.

Mr Parton, who is also the firm’s UK corporate investigations leader, is a qualified chartered accountant with more than 25 years forensic experience at PwC. He has extensive experience in fraud investigations and in providing expert accounting testimony in civil and criminal cases.

He lived and worked in Hong Kong for four years, where he led the firm’s forensic business in the Asia-Pacific market and opened forensic offices in Shanghai and Beijing.