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Anton
Moiseienko

Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

Anton is a Research Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. His current and recent research covers a range of financial crime issues, including money laundering via online businesses, corruption in the UK and overseas, the intersection between cybercrime and money laundering, and financial crime risks posed by free trade zones.

Anton holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London and a master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge. His book Corruption and Targeted Sanctions was published by Brill | Nijhoff. He is also a co-editor of Transnational Crime: European and Chinese Perspectives (Routledge, 2018), Criminal Networks and Law Enforcement (Routledge, forthcoming) and Research Handbook on Transnational Crime (Edward Elgar, forthcoming). Anton’s articles have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the International & Comparative Law Quarterly and Criminal Law Review.

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RUSI Whitehall

Research Focus

Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Financial Crime 2.0, Organised Crime, Terrorism Financial Crime

By This Author

What's in a Name? Corruption and Fraud in the UK

17 June 2019

This Occasional Paper discusses the forms that corruption and fraud take in four UK sectors: the financial sector; construction; the...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Occasional Papers, UK, Information, Securing Britain, Financial Crime 2.0, National Security
itcoin in front of a computer screen. Courtesy of Pexels/David McBee

The Heat is on Cyber-Criminals. But Are Governments Doing Enough to Tackle Rogue Cryptocurrency Exchanges?

31 May 2019

Cyber-criminal groups are being dismantled. But more needs to be done about the enforcement of rules that bind cryptocurrency exchanges.

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Cyber, AML/CTF, European Union, Financial Crime 2.0, Organised Crime, Technology
Courtesy of Asim Iftikhar Nagi/Wikimedia

Security Through Financial Integrity: Mending Pakistan’s Leaky Sieve

23 May 2019

This Occasional Paper focuses on the role of Pakistan’s financial institutions in detecting and preventing the transfer of corruption...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers

No Rest for the Wicked: Driving Change in the UK’s Post-FATF Evaluation AML Regime

19 February 2019

This report considers how the UK AML regime should develop after the conclusion of the 2018 Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Whitehall Reports, AML/CTF, UK

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itcoin in front of a computer screen. Courtesy of Pexels/David McBee

The Heat is on Cyber-Criminals. But Are Governments Doing Enough to Tackle Rogue Cryptocurrency Exchanges?

31 May 2019

Cyber-criminal groups are being dismantled. But more needs to be done about the enforcement of rules that bind cryptocurrency exchanges.

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Counter-Proliferation Finance, Cyber, AML/CTF, European Union, Financial Crime 2.0, Organised Crime, Technology
UK government offices on Great George Street, London, 2011. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Carlos Delgado.

One Step at a Time: Limited Reform of UK’s Limited Partnerships

22 January 2019

The UK government is proposing to tighten procedures for establishing limited partnerships, in an effort to close an avenue for money...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime
Pakistan’s recently elected Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the conference ‘Rule of Law: The Case of Pakistan’ in Berlin, 26 November 2009. Courtesy of Stephan Röhl / Wikimedia Commons.

High Expectations: The UK’s Role in Pakistan’s Fight Against Corruption

26 November 2018

Pakistan’s new government came to power 100 days ago vowing to fight corruption and recover looted national wealth. But the UK is integral...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime

Britain’s Revenue and Customs Agency: A Central Piece of the Country’s Anti-Money Laundering Puzzle

14 May 2018

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which is best known as Britain’s tax collection agency, is also in the forefront of the fight...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, UK
Tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009. He had reported a $230 million tax fraud allegedly perpetrated by high-ranking public officials. Courtesy of Voice of America

A UK Magnitsky Act: Would it Work?

3 April 2018

In 2016, the Global Magnitsky Act was adopted in the US to redress the impunity of human rights abusers and kleptocrats around the world....

Tags: AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime

What's in a Name? Corruption and Fraud in the UK

17 June 2019

Anton Moiseienko and Kayla Izenman

This Occasional Paper discusses the forms that corruption and fraud take in four UK sectors: the financial sector; construction; the...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Occasional Papers, UK, Information, Securing Britain, Financial Crime 2.0, National Security
Courtesy of Asim Iftikhar Nagi/Wikimedia

Security Through Financial Integrity: Mending Pakistan’s Leaky Sieve

23 May 2019

Tom Keatinge and Anton Moiseienko

This Occasional Paper focuses on the role of Pakistan’s financial institutions in detecting and preventing the transfer of corruption...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers

No Rest for the Wicked: Driving Change in the UK’s Post-FATF Evaluation AML Regime

19 February 2019

Tom Keatinge, Anton Moiseienko, Florence Keen, David Artingstall, and Helena Wood

This report considers how the UK AML regime should develop after the conclusion of the 2018 Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Whitehall Reports, AML/CTF, UK

The Scale of Money Laundering in the UK: Too Big to Measure?

11 February 2019

Anton Moiseienko and Tom Keatinge

By measuring the measurable – rather than lamenting the immeasurability of the immeasurable – the lower bounds of the scale of money...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, AML/CTF, Briefing Papers, Intelligence
Courtesy of Pixabay.com / Pexels.

From Money Mules to Chain-Hopping: Targeting the Finances of Cybercrime

29 November 2018

Anton Moiseienko and Olivier Kraft

This Occasional Paper discusses the ways that cyber-criminals manage the proceeds of their crimes, from employing money mules to using...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, AML/CTF, Occasional Papers, UK, Illicit Trade, Financial Crime 2.0, Organised Crime, Technology
Emergency personnel tending to the wounded on London Bridge following a terrorist attack, 2017. Courtesy of Yui Mok/PA Images

Much Ado About the Nexus: Why Does the Crime/Terror Nexus Matter?

31 August 2018

Florence Keen and Anton Moiseienko

All too often, any overlaps between crime and terror are seen as forming part of a single problem of the ‘crime/terror nexus’. In reality,...

Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, Global Security Issues, Illicit Trade, Organised Crime, Terrorism

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