Confidence & Clarity in Complex Forensic Cases

Fraud and Criminal Investigations

Financial allegations are often built on large volumes of banking records, company documents, accounting data, and assumptions drawn from financial activity. A forensic accountant can help identify what the evidence actually shows, whether transactions have been misunderstood, and whether the prosecution’s conclusions are supported by the underlying financial records.

Beyond Forensic provides forensic accountancy services in criminal investigations and financial crime matters. We work with criminal defence solicitors, barristers, and individuals facing allegations involving fraud, money laundering, financial misconduct, and related offences.

Our work includes the analysis of complex financial transactions, tracing the movement of funds, reconstructing financial histories, assessing alleged losses or criminal benefit, and identifying weaknesses or inconsistencies within the prosecution evidence.

Our Services

Pre Charge and Pre Conviction Investigations

We assist legal teams during the investigation stage and prior to conviction by carrying out detailed financial analysis to assess the strength of the allegations and identify issues within the prosecution evidence.

Our work may include:

  • Reviewing bank statements, company records, and financial schedules

  • Identifying errors, omissions, or unsupported assumptions

  • Assessing whether transactions have legitimate explanations

  • Preparing financial summaries and chronologies

  • Assisting solicitors and counsel in understanding complex financial evidence

Early forensic analysis can often help shape defence strategy and identify issues before proceedings progress further.

Fraud Investigations

We investigate allegations of fraud and financial dishonesty across a wide range of cases, including:

  • Corporate fraud

  • Investment fraud

  • False accounting

  • Employee fraud

  • Misappropriation of funds

  • Accounting irregularities

Our role is to analyse the underlying financial evidence and determine whether the available records support the allegations being made.

Money Laundering Allegations

We provide forensic accountancy support in cases involving alleged money laundering offences.

This includes:

  • Tracing the movement of funds through bank accounts and businesses

  • Identifying the source and application of funds

  • Reviewing alleged layering activity

  • Assessing whether transactions are consistent with legitimate trading or personal activity

  • Analysing financial evidence relied upon by investigators and prosecutors

We can also assist in challenging assumptions made about the origin or purpose of funds.

Conspiracy Allegations

In conspiracy cases, financial evidence is often used to support allegations of criminal collaboration or joint enterprise.

We assist by analysing:

  • Banking activity

  • Financial relationships between parties

  • Asset transfers

  • Company records and transactions

  • Communications linked to financial activity

Our analysis can help determine whether the financial evidence supports or undermines the allegations being advanced.

Theft Act and Fraud Act Allegations

We provide detailed financial analysis in cases involving allegations under the Theft Act and Fraud Act.

This may involve:

  • Reviewing allegations of dishonesty or deception

  • Examining accounting records and transaction histories

  • Assessing alleged losses

  • Identifying alternative explanations for financial discrepancies

  • Analysing whether the financial evidence supports the prosecution’s position

Restraint Orders

We assist individuals and legal teams dealing with restraint orders made under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Our work includes:

  • Reviewing asset schedules and financial disclosures

  • Assessing income sources and liabilities

  • Analysing asset ownership and valuations

  • Identifying inaccuracies within financial assumptions

  • Assisting in challenges to disproportionate or unsupported restrictions

Unexplained Wealth Orders

We assist individuals and businesses responding to Unexplained Wealth Orders by analysing financial records and preparing evidence to explain the origin of assets and wealth.

This may include:

  • Preparing financial explanations and schedules

  • Tracing historical sources of wealth

  • Reviewing business and personal financial records

  • Identifying supporting documentation

  • Assisting legal teams in responding to enforcement agencies