Book launch: Doing Business with Criminals

Legitimate companies occasionally find themselves doing business with criminals, wittingly or unwittingly. Past decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion in the array of criminal law and regulatory rules that govern such entanglements. These rules raise fundamental questions about commerce and society, such as: when can someone be excluded from day-to-day commercial interactions? Where is the boundary between legitimate surveillance of suspicious transactions and financial privacy? And, ultimately, what is the point of financial crime rules: are they meant to exclude suspected criminals from the legitimate economy, or help to gather intelligence on them?

This launch event introduces a book that seeks to provide the first comprehensive account of how these dilemmas shape financial crime rules, Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance (Cambridge University Press, 2025) by Anton Moiseienko. Based on a sweeping overview of international experience, it tells a story that will be of interest to those working in criminal justice, national security or international affairs.

This event is held as part of Canberra Economic Crime Seminars, a joint initiative by ANU Law School and the Australian Graduate School of Policing at Charles Sturt University, with generous support from the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC).

Program

5-5.30pm: Arrival

5.30-6.30pm: Panel discussion

6.30-7.00pm: Mingling over refreshments

Speakers

Professor Colin King, Sydney Law School (chair). Colin’s research focuses on financial crime, particularly money laundering; proceeds of crime; and deferred prosecution agreements. His publications include Civil Recovery of Criminal Property (King & Hendry, OUP 2023); Negotiated Justice: The Legitimacy of Civil Recovery and Deferred Prosecution Agreements (King & Lord, Palgrave 2018); and The Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law (King, Walker & Gurulé eds, Palgrave, 2018).

Dr Anton Moiseienko, ANU Law School. Anton’s work focuses on 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.

Dr Jamie Ferrill, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security, Charles Sturt University. Jamie has nearly a decade of law enforcement experience, having worked for the Canadian federal government prior to commencing an academic career. Her research addresses threats to national and economic security, with a particular interest in the intersection of financial crime with border governance frameworks, international cooperation, and organisational effectiveness. Jamie has co-edited three books on global economic crime, one monograph, and several articles and book chapters.

Russell Wilson, Transparency International Australia. Russell has extensive experience in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing. He spent more than 10 years as the first General Counsel at Australia’s financial intelligence and anti-money laundering agency (AUSTRAC), playing a strategic role in preventing and detecting financial crime and money-laundering and in conjunction with major domestic and international financial organisations and regulators. Russell is internationally recognised for his expertise and remains well connected to relevant government departments including Home Affairs and Attorney General’s Department.