AsPr Anton Moiseienko

Anton Moiseienko is an Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University (ANU) Law School. He specialises in financial crime and economic sanctions, with particular expertise in global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regulation and in Australian, UK, EU, US and UN sanctions law and practice. He has developed and taught postgraduate courses in Financial Crime Law and Transnational Anti-Corruption Laws. Anton has advised the World Bank, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the Basel Institute on Governance, prepared expert opinions for law enforcement agencies, and is regularly sought as a commentator by Australian and international media.

He is the author of Doing Business with Criminals (Cambridge University Press, 2025), described by reviewers as 'an indispensable guide' to the global AML/CTF system and a 'classic for years to come', and Corruption and Targeted Sanctions (Brill, 2019) the first-ever monograph on the legal and policy implications of ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions. He has also co-edited four books, including Research Handbook on Transnational Crime (2019); Policing Transnational Crime (2020); Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement (2020); and Transnational Crime: European and Chinese Perspectives (2019).

Anton's publications have appeared in the world's 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. Most recently, he testified on Australian sanctions laws and 'Tranche 2' reforms, including AUSTRAC's new regulatory powers.

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 Advisor at Transparency International Australia; Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University's Centre for Digital Law; incoming Visiting Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (2027); 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 boards of the Journal of Economic Criminology, Journal of Financial Crime and Journal of Money Laundering Control. 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 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, The New York Times, SBS, Sky News, Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post, 9News, etc.

Anton holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London (his thesis was subsequently published as Corruption and Targeted Sanctions), Master of Law from the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge Overseas Trust scholar and a Bachelor of International Law from Kyiv National University, Ukraine.

Anton posts financial crime and sanctions analysis regularly at his website, https://economiccrimelaw.com/.

In his spare time, he also maintains a daily law game called Hard Cases, https://hardcases.app/.

LLM (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Money laundering; terrorist financing; proliferation financing; sanctions; corruption; AML/CTF; financial regulation; compliance.