PhD Alumni Profile – Dr Anton Moiseienko
Anton talks about his long-running series of financial crime series and upcoming online discussion of a new book that caught his eye.
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Dr Anton Moiseienko (Law PhD, 2017) mentions on his LinkedIn post: “For several years now, Dr Jamie Ferrill [who is a Senior Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in Australia] and I have been running a series of financial crime seminars in Canberra. This month we are going online - and global - with a very special book talk: Jamison Firestone speaking about his book, The Rule of Lies: My Wild Ride Through Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia. It is truly one of the best books I read this year; dark at times but written with flair and verve. We will be talking about it at 7am London time / 6pm Canberra time on Monday 26 October.”
You can find out more about the upcoming online talk and register to attend via Anton’s LinkedIn page.
Currently Anton is an Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National. He specialises in anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), counter-proliferation financing (CPF), foreign bribery laws, and financial and trade sanctions. His work combines academic expertise with advisory experience. Anton regularly advises international organisations, including the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Bank, government agencies and private-sector clients worldwide. He’s developed and is teaching master’s courses in Financial Crime Law and Transnational Anti-Corruption Laws.
Dr Moiseienko says about his studies at QMUL and the topic of his PhD: “My thesis examined human rights issues that arise when states use ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions against foreigners suspected of corruption. It was published as a book entitled 'Corruption and Targeted Sanctions: Law and Policy of Anti-Corruption Entry Bans' by Brill in January 2019.
The thesis was supervised by Prof Valsamis Mitsilegas and Prof Saskia Hufnagel and examined by Prof Iain Cameron (Uppsala University) and Prof Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary University of London). I passed the viva without corrections.
During my PhD, I published on economic crime topics in leading journals, including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Criminal Law Review and New Journal of European Criminal Law. I also presented my research in a variety of academic and non-academic settings, including presentations at Peters & Peters, a leading UK white-collar crime firm, and Transparency International.”