Tan Wee Beng

Tan Wee Beng (born 14 February 1977) is a Singaporean businessman and commodity broker currently on a most wanted list maintained by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for money laundering.

Career A graduate of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Tan serves as the director of Wee Tiong and the managing director of WT Marine. In 2011, he was named the Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. Under his leadership, annual revenue at Wee Tiong reportedly grew by some 131 percent in ten years to more than USD$300m in 2015.

In the late 2000s, Tan sold sugar to two North Koreans, Ri Nam Sok and Jon Chol Ho, and received payment via Wee Tiong and Morgan Marcos, sister company of Wee Tiong, which he was also the director. The trade was not illegal as the time of the dealings. Between November 2016 and October 2017, local banks United Overseas Bank and OCBC Bank questioned Tan about the deposits in the companies' accounts which were payments for the trade to Ri and Jon. Tan, together with shipping manager Bong Hui Ping, falsified invoices by changing names of the buyers and destination ports to hide the trades as he was worried that both banks will terminate the companies' accounts on the basis of the North Korean dealings.

On 11 October 2021, Tan was convicted of seven counts of falsifying invoices with 13 similar charges taken into consideration for sentencing. At the same time, the United States Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against Tan and the two companies under his leadership. Tan categorically denied the criminal allegations. According to his Business Times profile, Tan is also a member of the London-based Refined Sugar Association.