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Congress has established the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program, as part of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-283, to pay rewards to qualified individuals who provide information leading to the restraint or seizure, forfeiture, or repatriation of “stolen assets,” as defined by the law, linked to foreign government corruption.
Through its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Program, the Secretary of the Treasury has statutory authority to offer rewards up to a maximum of $5,000,000 (or more with additional authorization) for information leading to the seizure, restraint, forfeiture, or repatriation of assets linked to corruption involving the government of the Russian Federation that are 1) in an account at a U.S. financial institution (including a U.S. branch of a foreign financial institution); 2) that come within the United States, or 3) that come within the possession or control of any U.S. person.
[The discretionary Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards program compliments the previously established Anti-Money Laundering whistleblower program, which provides for mandatory awards to whistleblowers who provide information about violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).]
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