Associate Professor
Anton Moiseienko
Associate Professor
Director – Research
LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Anton Moiseienko is an Associate Professor of Law and Research Director at the Australian National University Law School. His main areas of expertise are 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 objectives and history of financial crime rules published by Cambridge University Press in 2025, and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions published by Brill in 2019. He has also co-edited four books on transnational crime, including the 35-chapter-long Research Handbook on Transnational Crime.

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

He gave testimony to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement; Australian Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; UK House of Commons' International Trade Committee; Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (Cullen Commission); and Legal Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – all of which adopted his recommendations. He also briefed multiple government agencies and policymakers internationally, including the UK's Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, as well as the EU's Freeze and Seize Task Force.

He is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the UK's leading defence think tank; Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University's Centre for Digital Law; member of the steering committee of ANU's Defence Institute; member of the advisory board of the Centre for Financial Integrity in Kyiv, Ukraine, Ukraine's first financial integrity think tank; and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Criminology. He was an academic editor of the Federal Law Review (2022-2024) and the Australian Studies Institute's inaugural International Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2023).

Anton is the Lead Chief Investigator on a 3-year, $529,000 Australian Research Council-funded Discovery project on financial sanctions implementation involving a team of seven experts across Australian, UK and Canadian institutions. He has also attracted over $100,000 in philanthropic funding to ANU. His work prior to joining ANU was funded by the Council of Europe; Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Economic and Social Research Council; and a variety of private-sector funders.

Anton was previously a Research Fellow at RUSI's Centre for Finance and Security. In that capacity, 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.

Anton's consultancy experience includes advising the World Bank and UN Office on Drugs and Crime on beneficial ownership transparency; an overseas banking association on proliferation financing; a European law enforcement agency on counter-terrorism law; and multiple other private-sector and government-funded projects worldwide.

He is widely sought after as a commentator on economic crime and sanctions by Australian and global media, including the ABC, AFP, Al Jazeera, The Australian, Australian Financial Review, BBC, Bloomberg, Canadian Affairs, Deutsche Welle, The Economist, France 24, The Guardian, Japan Times, SBS, Sky News, Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post, 9News, etc.

Appointments

  • Research Director, School of Law, Australian National University, 2025 – ongoing
  • Senior Research Affiliate, Centre for Digital Law, Singapore Management University, 2025 – ongoing
  • Co-Convenor, Canberra Economic Crime Seminars, 2024 – ongoing
  • Advisory Board Member, Centre for Financial Integrity, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024 – ongoing
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic Criminology, UK, 2023 – ongoing
  • Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, UK, 2021 – ongoing
  • Deputy Associate Dean (Research), College of Law, Australian National University, 2024
  • Academic Editor, Federal Law Review, 2022–2024
  • Australian Studies Institute International Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, US (2023)

Significant research publications

Books

Articles:

Other:

Related websites

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Link to ANU researchers profile

Grants

  • $529,000 from the Australian Research Council for a Discovery Project on financial sanctions implementation (Lead Chief Investigator).
  • £60,000 ($114,000) 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 the Basel Institute on Government on the policy aspects of anti-corruption sanctions (2025).
  • 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-ongoing).
  • Advised on counter-proliferation financing threats for a banking association in an overseas jurisdiction (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).
  • Advised an international NGO on sanctions and asset recovery (2016).

Books & edited collections

Monographs:

  • Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
        • Well-written and intellectually innovative … Destined to remain a classic for years to come’ (Prof Michael Levi, Cardiff University)
        • ‘Indispensable guide’ (Tom Keatinge, Director of the Centre for Finance and Security, Royal United Services Institute)
        • ‘Brilliant … penetrating analysis … meticulously parses the onerous regulations and laws governing AML enforcement’ (Frederick T. Martens, former President of The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime)
  • Corruption and Targeted Sanctions(Brill 2019)

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

  • ‘Frozen Russian State Assets and Reparations for Ukraine’ in Jacob Öberg (ed), EU Sanctions (Hart Publishing, 2026)
  • ‘Financial Action Task Force Recommendations’ in Clara Portela, Andrea Charron and Mirko Sossai (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions (Edward Elgar, 2025)
  • 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

  • Doing Business with Criminals: Aligning Compliance Efforts with Law Enforcement Objectives’, presenter, Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Brisbane (3 December 2025)
  • ‘Financial Footprint of Cybercrime’, presenter, Interbank Conference, Sydney (19 November 2025)
  • ‘Aligning Compliance Efforts with Law Enforcement Objectives’, plenary presenter, AML/CTF Compliance Summit, Melbourne (12 November 2025)
  • ‘Dirty Money in Australia: Fortress or Facilitator?’, panellist, Transparency International Australia Anti-Corruption Summit, Melbourne (21 August 2025)
  • Workshop chair, Financial Complicity in International Crimes, Royal United Services Institute, London (8 July 2025)
  • ‘Sanctions and the Financial Footprint of War Crimes’, Economic Complicity in International Crimes: Gaps and Ways Forward, The Hague (4 July 2025) – conference organiser
  • 'What Do Law Firms Need To Do?’, AML Edge, Sydney (27 March 2025)
  • ‘New Directions in Financial Crime’, University of Sydney (29 November 2024)
  • ‘EU Restrictive Measures (“Sanctions”) and Kleptocracy: KLEPTOTRACE Training Seminar’, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (19 September 2023)
  • ‘International Compensation Mechanism and Its Elements’, conference co-organised by the Irish Institute of International and European Affairs and the Embassy of Ukraine in Ireland, Dublin (13 September 2023)
  • '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)

Commissioned reports

 

Testimony:

Submissions:

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

Book reviews:

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 Justice
Criminal Law
Financial Crime and Sanctions
International Law
Law & Technology
Public Law

Contacts

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