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Benjamin Thong
Perun Consultants · Singapore
Perun Consultants
Forensic Accounting · Singapore
Benjamin is a seasoned expert with over 20 years of experience in consulting – including financial and forensics due diligence and divestment advisory, governance, compliance, risk management, forensic and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation and litigation support and financial advisory. Benjamin has also undertaken a wide range of insolvency related engagements.
He has helped global multi-national corporations in conducting internal investigations and compliance monitoring assignments. Furthermore, he has also been retained by numerous clients – both companies and individuals - as their expert witness providing testimonies in litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Benjamin has worked across industries like pharmaceutical, telecommunication & technology, FMCG, construction, hospitality and leisure, oil and gas and manufacturing. His practice spans across multiple jurisdictions, including China, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia.
Representative engagements:
• Retained by a global construction conglomerate, listed on the Japanese stock exchange, for an investigation into their joint-venture partner and defensive strategies to assist the client in preparing for potential litigation.
• Expert witness in a case of the former managing director of a Singapore-listed company’s subsidiary suing his former employer over the sale of his shareholding in the subsidiary.
• Expert witness looking into the investigation of a UK hotel owned by a Singapore company, relating to possible criminal breach of trust, and other white-collar crimes.
• Conducted an internal investigation of a Singapore-listed company in a financial misstatement fraud case. Benjamin was able to uncover and collate the evidence in a scheme of non-disclosure of fixed assets purchased. This investigation required him to review the accounting policies relating to procurement, inventory, asset management and depreciation.
• Provided litigation support where he computed the loss of profit for a local sports brand distribution. The matter related to a breach of fiduciary duties by a lawyer for his failure to register the patent in Malaysia. The report included scenarios relating to the various permutation of the loss of profits due to the distribution models.
• Led the strategy with the lawyers and oversaw the investigation of several allegations of abuse and management misconduct in connection with litigation support investigation of a family dispute in Indonesia, leading to a court dispute in Singapore.
• Conducted an independent investigation of a global real estate agency and property management company in Vietnam to ascertain the loss of the company’s client relating to the employee committing criminal breach of trust and theft.
• Assisted the general counsel of a global advertising and media conglomerate in Vietnam in uncovering evidence and conducting interviews for a television commercial leak of their client, prior to the official launch of the television commercial.
• Investigation of a rogue employee of a Temasek-linked company who had extracted confidential information from the company prior to his resignation.
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