A landmark study led by Dr Anton Moiseienko has examined the Global Magnitsky Act's impact on individuals sanctioned over corruption charges with novel results.
Dr Anton Moiseienko
Lecturer
BA (Kiev), LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)
ANU College of Law, 5 Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
Research Themes
Research Centre
Biography
Anton Moiseienko is a Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. His work focuses on transnational crime, economic crime and cybercrime, as well as legal and policy aspects of targeted sanctions.
He is the author of Corruption and Targeted Sanctions, a monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ laws. He has also co-edited four books on transnational crime. He is currently working on a book entitled Doing Business with Criminals: Law, Policy and Ethics, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Anton's articles have appeared or are forthcoming in leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Review, German Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, and Leiden Journal of International Law.
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; and Canada's Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia. 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.
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)
- 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
Books:
- Corruption and Targeted Sanctions (Brill 2019)
Articles:
- 'Crime and Sanctions: Beyond Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool' (forthcoming) German Law Journal
- 'Does International Law Prohibit the Facilitation of Money Laundering?' (2023) 36(1) Leiden Journal of International Law 109-132
- 'Trading with a Friend's Enemy' (2022) 116(4) American Journal of International Law 720-730
- 'The Limitations of Unexplained Wealth Orders' [2022] 3 Criminal Law Review 230–241
- ‘The Ownership of Confiscated Proceeds of Corruption under the UN Convention against Corruption’ (2018) 67(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 669–694
- ‘Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction over Bribery in the UK: The Limits of the Bribery Act 2010’ [2016] 6 Criminal Law Review 405–417
Other:
- 'A Journey of 20: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Magnitsky Corruption Sanctions' (2023, with Megan Musni and Eva van der Merwe) International Lawyers Project
Recent news
21
Jul
2021
Dr Anton Moiseienko is a lecturer at ANU College of Law.
In the Media
12
May
2023
Anton Moiseienko quoted in The Japan Times
11
Mar
2023
Anton Moiseienko quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
Past events
12
Jul
2023
5.00PM to 6.00PM Masterclass
- Dr Anton Moiseienko
Introduction to Financial Crime Law with Dr Anton Moiseienko
08
Jul
2022
9.00AM to 5.30PM Conference
The conference is hosted by the ANU College of Law and Transparency International Australia.
27
Oct
2021
7.00PM to 8.15PM Webinar
In common with other countries’ practice, the Australian Government has the power to subject individuals and companies to extrajudicial targeted sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans. The introduction of corruption and human rights sanctions raises a host of questions of law and policy.
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 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:
- Corruption and Targeted Sanctions (Brill 2019)
- Reviewed favourably in the Annuaire Français de Droit International and Global Policy
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
- 'Crime and Sanctions: Beyond Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool' (forthcoming) German Law Journal
- 'Legal: The Freezing of the Russian Central Bank's Assets' (forthcoming) European Journal of International Law
- 'The Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court: What Law Should the Court Apply' (2023) 2(1) Transnational Criminal Law Review 5
- 'Sanctions, Confiscation and the Rule of Law' (2023) 4(5) Revue Européenne du Droit 33-39
- 'Does International Law Prohibit the Facilitation of Money Laundering?' (2023) 36(1) Leiden Journal of International Law 109-132
- 'Trading with a Friend's Enemy' (2022) 116(4) American Journal of International Law 720-730
- ''The Future of EU Sanctions Against Russia: Objectives, Frozen Assets, and Humanitarian Impact' [2022] 2 EUCrim 130-136
- 'The Limitations of Unexplained Wealth Orders' [2022] 3 Criminal Law Review 230–241
- ‘The Ownership of Confiscated Proceeds of Corruption under the UN Convention against Corruption’ (2018) 67(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 669–694
- ‘Territorial Criminal Jurisdiction over Bribery in the UK: The Limits of the Bribery Act 2010’ [2016] 6 Criminal Law Review 405–417
- ‘Targeted Sanctions, Crimes and State Sovereignty’ (2015, with Saskia Hufnagel) 6(3) New Journal of European Criminal Law 351–371
- '"No Safe Haven": Denying Entry to the Corrupt as a New Anti-Corruption Policy' (2015) 18(4) Journal of Money Laundering Control 400-410
Book chapters
- ‘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)
Commissioned reports
- 'Unexplained Wealth Orders: UK Experience and Lessons for British Columbia' (with Tom Keatinge and Helena Wood), October 2020, for the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (Canada)
Government submissions
Testimony:
- Testimony on Magnitsky sanctions before the Australian Senate's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Australia) (21 December 2022)
- Presentation before the Freeze and Seize Task Force (EU) (18 November 2022)
- Testimony on Unexplained Wealth Orders before the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (Canada) (15 December 2020)
- Oral testimony before the House of Commons International Trade Committee (UK) as part of its freeports inquiry (9 September 2020)
Submissions:
- Submission to the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's inquiry into responding to illicit and emerging finance (February 2022)
- Submission to New Zealand’s Ministry of Justice's consultation on the review of the AML/CFT Act (December 2021)
- Submission to the UK Treasury's consultation on the review of the UK’s AML/CFT regulatory and supervisory regime (October 2021)
Case notes & book reviews
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:
- Book Review: Towards a Global Consensus Against Corruption: International Agreements as Products of Diffusion and Signals of Commitment (2019) LSE Review of Books
- Book Review: Militarised Responses to Transnational Organised Crime (2018) LSE Review of Books
- Book Review: The Limits of Asset Confiscation (2017) 8(4) New Journal of European Criminal Law 571
- Book Review: Crime (2016) LSE Review of Books
Other
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'A Journey of 20: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Magnitsky Corruption Sanctions' (2023, with Megan Musni and Eva van der Merwe) International Lawyers Project
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'Frozen Russian Assets and the Reconstruction of Ukraine: Legal Options' (2022, with the International Lawyers Project and Spotling on Corruption) World Refugee and Migration Council
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‘Oxford Bibliography on International Sanctions’ (with Iain Cameron), Oxford Bibliographies in International Law, May 2021
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'Taking the Profit Out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime’ (2021, with Ardi Janjeva and Alexandria Reid) RUSI Whitehall Report
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'The UK’s Response to Cyber Fraud: A Strategic Vision’ (2021, with Sneha Dawda and Ardi Janjeva) RUSI Occasional Paper
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'For Whose Benefit? Reframing Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Around Users’ Needs’ (2020, with Tom Keatinge) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘Improving Governance and Tackling Crime in Free-Trade Zones’ (2020, with Alexandria Reid and Isabella Chase) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘Rethinking the UK Response to Cyber Fraud: Key Policy Challenges’ (2020, with Sneha Dawda and Ardi Janjeva) RUSI Briefing Paper
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‘Free Ports, Not Safe Havens: Preventing Crime in the UK’s Future Freeports’ (2020, with Alexandria Reid and Isabella Chase) RUSI Briefing Paper
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‘Understanding Financial Crime Risks in E-Commerce’ (2020) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘Play Your Cards Right: Preventing Criminal Abuse of Online Gambling’ (2019) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘Gaming the System: Money Laundering Through Online Games’ (2019, with Kayla Izenman) RUSI Newsbrief
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‘From Intention to Action: Next Steps in Preventing Criminal Abuse of Cryptocurrency’ (2019, with Kayla Izenman) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘What's in a Name? Corruption and Fraud in the UK’ (2019, with Kayla Izenman) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘Security Through Financial Integrity: Mending Pakistan’s Leaky Sieve’ (2019, with Tom Keatinge) RUSI Occasional Paper
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‘No Rest for the Wicked: Driving Change in the UK’s Post-FATF Evaluation AML Regime’ (2019, with Tom Keatinge et al) RUSI Whitehall Report
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‘The Scale of Money Laundering in the UK: Too Big to Measure?’ (2019, with Tom Keatinge) RUSI Briefing Paper
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‘From Money Mules to Chain-Hopping: Targeting the Finances of Cybercrime’ (2018, with Olivier Kraft) RUSI Occasional Paper
PhD supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, espeically 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, espeically research focusing on transnational or economic crime.
MPhil supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, espeically 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, espeically research focusing on transnational or economic crime.
Honours thesis supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas of criminal law and international law, espeically research focusing on transnational or economic crime.
Current courses
| Year | Course code | Course 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) and presented before governmental agencies in the UK and Canada. I have also 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.
