Dr
Anton Moiseienko
Senior Lecturer
LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Anton Moiseienko is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. His work focuses on financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, and the legal and policy aspects of economic sanctions.

He is the author of Doing Business with Criminals, a wide-ranging account of the history of financial crime rules forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ laws published by Brill in 2019. He has also co-edited four books on transnational crime.

Anton's articles or essays have appeared in leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Review, European Journal of International Law, German Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Leiden Journal of International Law and Modern Law Review.

He was previously a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a UK defence and security think-tank. While at RUSI, he led major multi-year research projects that explored the impact of technology on financial crime, as well as illicit trade risks in free-trade zones. He also published on a wide array of subjects including beneficial ownership transparency; corruption and fraud in the UK; and the financial footprint of cybercrime, cyber-enabled fraud and online IP piracy.

He gave testimony to the Australian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; the UK House of Commons' International Trade Committee; Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia; and the Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He also presented before multiple other UK agencies, including the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, as well as the EU's Freeze and Seize Task Force.

His consultancy experience includes advising the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a joint programme of the World Bank and UN Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as consulting for government-funded and private-sector financial crime projects worldwide.

Anton holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London and LLM from the University of Cambridge.

Appointments

  • Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, London, UK (2021-present)
  • Deputy Associate Dean (Research), College of Law, Australian National University (2024-present)
  • Academic Editor, Federal Law Review, Australian National University (2022-present)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Economic Criminology (2023-present)
  • Australian Studies Institute International Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, US (2023)

Significant research publications

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Related websites

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Grants

  • £60,000 ($114,00) from the Open Society Foundations for the project on ‘Global Magnitsky Sanctions 5 Years On: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Corruption Sanctions’(2022) [jointly with the International Lawyers Project]
  • £40,000 ($76,000) from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council(ESRC) for the project on corruption and fraud in the UK(2018) [Principal Investigator on a RUSI project]
  • Project lead on two over-£150,000 multi-year private-sector grants for research on ‘Financial Crime 2.0’(financial crime risks and opportunities related to new technologies) and ‘Crime Risks of Free Trade Zones’ while a RUSI Research Fellow(2018-2021)

Consultancies

  • Advised on a UK government-funded project on the use of targeted sanctions delivered via the Serious and Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (2024).
  • Advised the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a joint programme by the World Bank and UN Office on Drugs and Crime, on the identification of priority jurisdiction for beneficial ownership-related technical assistance (2021).
  • Advised the police service of a European jurisdiction on a potential criminal prosecution arising out of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine (2018).

Books & edited collections

Monographs:

Edited collections:

  • Policing Transnational Crime: Law Enforcement of Criminal Flows (edited with Saskia Hufnagel, Routledge 2020)
  • Research Handbook on Transnational Crime (edited with Valsamis Mitsilegas and Saskia Hufnagel, Edward Elgar 2019)
  • Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement: Global Perspectives on Illegal Enterprise (edited with Saskia Hufnagel, Routledge 2019)
  • Transnational Crime: European and Chinese Perspectives (edited with Valsamis Mitsilegas, Saskia Hufnagel, Shi Yanan and Liu Mingxiang, Routledge 2018)

Refereed journal articles

Book chapters

  • ‘Three Models of Unexplained Wealth Orders’ in Folashade Adeyemo and Nicholas Ryder (eds), Unexplained Wealth: A Global Perspective (Routledge, forthcoming)
  • ‘Due process and unilateral targeted sanctions’ in Charlotte Beaucillon(ed), Research Handbook on Unilateral and Extraterritorial Sanctions (Edward Elgar 2021)
  • ‘Value of Transparency: The Role of Beneficial Ownership Registers in Policing Illicit Finance’ in Saskia Hufnagel and Anton Moiseienko(eds), Policing Transnational Crime: Law Enforcement of Criminal Flows (Routledge 2020)
  • ‘Transnational Crime in ex-Soviet Countries’ in Valsamis Mitsilegas, Saskia Hufnagel and Anton Moiseienko(eds), Research Handbook on Transnational Crime (Edward Elgar 2019)

Conference papers & presentations

  • 'Restraining Wealth with Economic Sanctions', Due Process or Due Proceeds Workshop, University of Queensland, Brisbane (30 June 2023)
  • 'Corruption and Human Rights Sanctions in Australia’, Economic Crime Law Conference, ANU, Canberra (8 July 2022)
  • Principles for Using Targeted Sanctions to Address Crime’, Symposium on Supranational Responses to Corruption organised by the American Society of International Law, World Bank and OECD, Vienna (29 April 2022)
  • ‘Cybercrime Deep Dive: How It Works, How to Fight It’, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists(ACAMS) (3 February 2021)
  • 'For Whose Benefit? Reframing Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Around Users’ Needs’, 2nd International Research Conference on Empirical Approaches to AML and Financial Crime Suppression, The Central Bank of the Bahamas (28 January 2021)
  • ‘Nowhere to Hide: Why We Need Beneficial Ownership Registries’, International Anti-Corruption Conference(1 December 2020)
  • ‘New Technologies and Financial Crime’, panellist, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Jesus College, Cambridge (3 September 2019)
  • ‘Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering’, Comply Advantage Conference, London (28 November 2019)

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Case notes:

  • Introduction to ‘Immunities and Criminal Proceedings(Equatorial Guinea v. France): Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures(I.C.J.)’(2018) 57(2) International Legal Materials 201

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Other

PhD supervision

I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, especially research focusing on transnational or economic crime.

I am currently supervising Alicia Schmidt ('Legal impediments to confiscation of cryptocurrency in Australia and the US').

SJD supervision

I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, especially research focusing on transnational or economic crime.

MPhil supervision

I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, especially research focusing on transnational or economic crime.

LLM Masters thesis supervision

I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, especially research focusing on transnational or economic crime.

Honours thesis supervision

I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, especially research focusing on transnational or economic crime.

Current courses

YearCourse codeCourse name
2023

LAWS8596

Class #3530

Financial Crime Law
2023

LAWS8009

Class #6524

Transnational Anti-Corruption Laws

How my works connects with public policy

Much of my work is relevant to the needs of policy-makers and practitioners, especially law enforcement agencies. I have given parliamentary testimony in Australia (Senate) and the UK (House of Commons), as well as before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I have also presented before governmental agencies in the UK and Canada. I have been invited to expert meetings by the Financial Action Task Force, the European Commission and the World Bank, and advised the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a joint project of the World Bank and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

I am often cited in the media, including The Economist, Financial Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, SBS, The Saturday Paper, France 24, Deutsche Welle and Japan News. I have also written op-eds in The Australian and EU Observer.

Anton Moiseienko

Research themes

Criminal Law
International Law
Law and Technology

Contacts

Anton.Moiseienko@anu.edu.au
ANU College of Law, 5 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600