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Calendar No. 293 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3723 

To impose sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation in response 

to the invasion of Ukraine, to confiscate assets of the Russian Federation 

and remit those assets to the legitimate Government of Ukraine, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 1, 2022 

Mr. CASSIDY introduced the following bill; which was read the first time 

MARCH 2, 2022 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

A BILL 

To impose sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation 

in response to the invasion of Ukraine, to confiscate 

assets of the Russian Federation and remit those assets 

to the legitimate Government of Ukraine, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘Special Russian Sanctions Authority Act of 2022’’. 


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1 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

2 this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 

TITLE I—SANCTIONS 

Sec. 101. Definitions. 

Sec. 102. Joint Task Force on Russian Sanctions. 

Sec. 103. Imposition of sanctions with respect to officials of the Government of 

the Russian Federation. 

Sec. 104. Imposition of sanctions with respect to Navalny 35. 

Sec. 105. Imposition of sanctions with respect to the Wagner Group. 

Sec. 106. Implementation; penalties; exceptions. 

TITLE II—OTHER MATTERS 

Sec. 201. Confiscation of assets of Russian Federation; remittance to legitimate 

Government of Ukraine. 

Sec. 202. Designation of Vladimir Putin as a specially designated global terrorist. 

Sec. 203. Declaration of certain governments with military cooperation agreements with the Russian Federation as engaging in grave hostile acts of a foreign power. 

Sec. 204. Recognition of government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as legitimate government of Ukraine. 

Sec. 205. Military assistance for Ukraine. 

Sec. 206. Closure of consulates; restriction on free movement of Russian diplomats. 

Sec. 207. Anti-money laundering requirements for real estate professionals. 

3 TITLE I—SANCTIONS 

4 SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this title: 

6 (1) ADMISSION; ADMITTED; ALIEN.—The terms 

7 ‘‘admission’’, ‘‘admitted’’, and ‘‘alien’’ have the 

8 meanings given those terms in section 101 of the 

9 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101). 

10 (2) PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘property’’ includes 

11 cryptocurrency. 

12 (3) UNITED STATES PERSON.—The term 

13 ‘‘United States person’’ means— 


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1 (A) an individual who is a United States 

2 citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for perma3 nent residence to the United States; or 

4 (B) an entity organized under the laws of 

5 the United States or any jurisdiction within the 

6 United States, including a foreign branch of 

7 such an entity. 

8 SEC. 102. JOINT TASK FORCE ON RUSSIAN SANCTIONS. 

9 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a Joint 

10 Task Force on Russian Sanctions (in this section referred 

11 to as the ‘‘Task Force’’). 

12 (b) LEADERSHIP.—The Task Force shall be led by 

13 the Director of National Intelligence. 

14 (c) COMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall be com15 posed of representatives from— 

16 (1) the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the 

17 Department of the Treasury; 

18 (2) the head of the Office of Sanctions Coordi19 nation of the Department of State; 

20 (3) each element of the intelligence community 

21 (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security 

22 Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4))); and 

23 (4) any other agency the Director of National 

24 Intelligence considers appropriate. 


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1 (d) DUTIES.—The Task Force shall be responsible 

2 for coordinating the imposition of sanctions with respect 

3 to the Russian Federation. 

4 (e) IDENTIFICATION OF SANCTIONABLE PERSONS.— 

5 The Task Force shall, on an ongoing basis, submit to the 

6 President, the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets 

7 Control, and the head of the Office of Sanctions Coordina8 tion of the Department of State, lists of persons the Task 

9 Force identifies as subject to sanctions imposed by the 

10 United States with respect to the Russian Federation. 

11 (f) IDENTIFICATION OF CRYPTOCURRENCY.—In car12 rying out subsections (d) and (e), the Task Force shall 

13 consider ways— 

14 (1) to identify cryptocurrency owned by persons 

15 subject to sanctions imposed by the United States 

16 with respect to the Russian Federation; and 

17 (2) to block and prohibit all transactions in 

18 such cryptocurrency. 

19 SEC. 103. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 

20 OFFICIALS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 

21 RUSSIAN FEDERATION. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 

23 date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall im24 pose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect 


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1 to any individual serving in any of the following positions 

2 on or after March 26, 2014: 

3 (1) As a member of the United Russia Party in 

4 the State Duma. 

5 (2) As an official of the Government of the 

6 Russian Federation at the level of director or higher. 

7 (3) As a member of the intelligence apparatus 

8 of the Government of the Russian Federation. 

9 (4) As a officer of the Armed Forces of the 

10 Russian Federation with the rank of colonel or high11 er. 

12 (b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de13 scribed in this subsection are the following: 

14 (1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 

15 shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi16 dent under the International Emergency Economic 

17 Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent 

18 necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 

19 property and interests in property of an individual 

20 described in subsection (a) if such property and in21 terests in property are in the United States, come 

22 within the United States, or are or come within the 

23 possession or control of a United States person. 

24 (2) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, OR

25 PAROLE.— 


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1 (A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 

2 alien described in subsection (a) is— 

3 (i) inadmissible to the United States; 

4 (ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 

5 documentation to enter the United States; 

6 and 

7 (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 

8 or paroled into the United States or to re9 ceive any other benefit under the Immigra10 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 

11 seq.). 

12 (B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 

13 (i) IN GENERAL.—An alien described 

14 in subsection (a) is subject to revocation of 

15 any visa or other entry documentation, re16 gardless of when the visa or other entry 

17 documentation is or was issued. 

18 (ii) IMMEDIATE EFFECT.—A revoca19 tion under clause (i) shall— 

20 (I) take effect immediately; and 

21 (II) automatically cancel any 

22 other valid visa or entry documenta23 tion that is in the alien’s possession. 


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1 SEC. 104. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 

2 NAVALNY 35. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 

4 date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall exer5 cise all of the powers granted to the President under the 

6 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 

7 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and 

8 prohibit all transactions in property and interests in prop9 erty of each individual specified in subsection (b) if such 

10 property and interests in property are in the United 

11 States, come within the United States, or are or come 

12 within the possession or control of a United States person. 

13 (b) INDIVIDUALS SPECIFIED.—The individuals speci14 fied in this subsection are the following: 

15 (1) Roman Abramovich, businessman. 

16 (2) Denis Bortnikov, Deputy President and 

17 Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank. 

18 (3) Andrey Kostin, President and Chairman of 

19 the Management Board of VTB Bank. 

20 (4) Dmitry Patrushev, Minister of Agriculture. 

21 (5) Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the State De22 velopment Corporation VEB. 

23 (6) Alisher Usmanov, businessman. 

24 (7) Oleg Deripaska, businessman. 

25 (8) Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management 

26 Committee of Gazprom. 


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1 (9) Igor Sechin, Chairman of the Management 

2 Board of Rosneft. 

3 (10) Gennady Timchenko, businessman. 

4 (11) Nikolai Tokarev, Chairman of Transneft. 

5 (12) Andrey Vorobyev, Governor of the Moscow 

6 Region XIII. 

7 (13) Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health. 

8 (14) Vladimir Solovyev, media personality. 

9 (15) Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Inves10 tigative Committee. 

11 (16) Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Fed12 eral Security Service (FSB). 

13 (17) Konstantin Ernst, Chief Executive Officer 

14 of Channel One TV station. 

15 (18) Victor Gavrilov, Head of the Department 

16 of Transport of the Economic Security Service. 

17 (19) Dmitry Ivanov, Head of Chelyabinsk FSB. 

18 (20) Alexander Kalashnikov, Director of the 

19 Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). 

20 (21) Sergei Kirienko, First Deputy Head of the 

21 Presidential Administration. 

22 (22) Elena Morozova, Judge of Khimki District 

23 Court. 

24 (23) Denis Popov, Chief Prosecutor of Moscow. 


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1 (24) Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief of 

2 RT. 

3 (25) Igor Yanchuk, Head of the Khimki Police 

4 Department. 

5 (26) Victor Zolotov, Director of the National 

6 Guard. 

7 (27) Alexander Beglov, Governor of St. Peters8 burg. 

9 (28) Yuri Chaika, former Prosecutor General. 

10 (29) Andrei Kartapolov, Deputy Defense Min11 ister. 

12 (30) Pavel Krasheninnikov, Parliamentarian 

13 and former Justice Minister. 

14 (31) Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the 

15 Russian Federation. 

16 (32) Ella Pamfilova, Head of Central Electoral 

17 Commission. 

18 (33) Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Press Sec19 retary. 

20 (34) Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow. 

21 (35) Anton Vaino, Head of the Presidential Ad22 ministration. 


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1 SEC. 105. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 

2 THE WAGNER GROUP. 

3 (a) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—As soon as prac4 ticable after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

5 President shall exercise all of the powers granted to the 

6 President under the International Emergency Economic 

7 Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent nec8 essary to block and prohibit all transactions in property 

9 and interests in property of the Wagner Group if such 

10 property and interests in property are in the United 

11 States, come within the United States, or are or come 

12 within the possession or control of a United States person. 

13 (b) DESIGNATION AS SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOB14 AL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.—The Wagner Group is 

15 designated as a specially designated global terrorist orga16 nization for purposes of Executive Order 13224 (50 

17 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property and pro18 hibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten 

19 to commit, or support terrorism), as amended before, on, 

20 or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

21 SEC. 106. IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES; EXCEPTIONS. 

22 (a) IMPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 

23 (1) IMPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex24 ercise all authorities provided under sections 203 

25 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic 


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1 Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out 

2 this title. 

3 (2) PENALTIES.—A person that violates, at4 tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 

5 violation of this title or any regulation, license, or 

6 order issued to carry out this title shall be subject 

7 to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) 

8 of section 206 of the International Emergency Eco9 nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same ex10 tent as a person that commits an unlawful act de11 scribed in subsection (a) of that section. 

12 (b) EXCEPTIONS.— 

13 (1) EXCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF

14 GOODS.— 

15 (A) IN GENERAL.—A requirement to block 

16 and prohibit all transactions in all property and 

17 interests in property under this title shall not 

18 include the authority or a requirement to im19 pose sanctions on the importation of goods. 

20 (B) GOOD.—In this paragraph, the term 

21 ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or manmade 

22 substance, material, supply or manufactured 

23 product, including inspection and test equip24 ment, and excluding technical data. 


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1 (2) EXCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH UNITED NA2 TIONS HEADQUARTERS AGREEMENT AND LAW EN3 FORCEMENT OBJECTIVES.—Sanctions under section 

4 103(b)(2) shall not apply with respect to an alien if 

5 admitting the alien into the United States— 

6 (A) would further important law enforce7 ment objectives; or 

8 (B) is necessary to permit the United 

9 States to comply with the Agreement regarding 

10 the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 

11 at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered 

12 into force November 21, 1947, between the 

13 United Nations and the United States, or other 

14 applicable international obligations of the 

15 United States. 

16 TITLE II—OTHER MATTERS 

17 SEC. 201. CONFISCATION OF ASSETS OF RUSSIAN FEDERA18 TION; REMITTANCE TO LEGITIMATE GOVERN19 MENT OF UKRAINE. 

20 (a) CONFISCATION.— 

21 (1) IN GENERAL.—The President— 

22 (A) may confiscate and vest, through in23 structions or licenses or in such other manner 

24 as the President determines appropriate, funds 

25 and other property of the Government of the 


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1 Russian Federation that are subject to the ju2 risdiction of the United States; 

3 (B) may liquidate or sell any of such prop4 erty; and 

5 (C) shall deposit any funds confiscated and 

6 vested under subparagraph (A) and any funds 

7 resulting from the liquidation or sale of prop8 erty under subparagraph (B) in the account es9 tablished under subsection (d). 

10 (2) VESTING.—All right, title, and interest in 

11 funds and other property confiscated under para12 graph (1) shall vest in the Government of the United 

13 States. 

14 (3) INCLUSION OF CRYPTOCURRENCY.—For 

15 purposes of paragraph (1), the term ‘‘funds and 

16 other property’’ includes cryptocurrency. 

17 (b) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT FOR CON18 FISCATED PROPERTY.— 

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish 

20 a non-interest-bearing account to consist of the 

21 funds deposited into the account under subsection 

22 (a)(1)(C). 

23 (2) USE OF FUNDS.—The funds in the account 

24 established under paragraph (1) shall be available as 

25 specified in subsection (c). 


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1 (c) TRANSFER OF CONFISCATED PROPERTY TO GOV2 ERNMENT OF UKRAINE.—The President may transfer 

3 funds from the account established under subsection (b) 

4 to the Government of Ukraine recognized under section 

5 7. 

6 SEC. 202. DESIGNATION OF VLADIMIR PUTIN AS A SPE7 CIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORIST. 

8 Vladimir Putin is designated as a specially designated 

9 global terrorist for purposes of Executive Order 13224 (50 

10 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking property and pro11 hibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten 

12 to commit, or support terrorism), as amended before, on, 

13 or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

14 SEC. 203. DECLARATION OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENTS WITH 

15 MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENTS WITH 

16 THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS ENGAGING IN 

17 GRAVE HOSTILE ACTS OF A FOREIGN POWER. 

18 The government of any country in the Western Hemi19 sphere that has in effect a miliary cooperation agreement 

20 (or an equivalent agreement) with the Government of the 

21 Russian Federation is designated as having engaged in a 

22 grave hostile act of a foreign power (within the meaning 

23 of that term under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 

24 Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)). 


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1 SEC. 204. RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT OF VOLODYMYR 

2 ZELENSKYY AS LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT 

3 OF UKRAINE. 

4 It is the policy of the United States that— 

5 (1) Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the legitimate head 

6 of state of Ukraine and his government is the legiti7 mate government of Ukraine, without regard to 

8 whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy or officials of his gov9 ernment are in Ukraine or in control of Ukraine; 

10 and 

11 (2) the United States will recognize as the le12 gitimate government of Ukraine only a government 

13 put in place pursuant to the line of succession under 

14 the Constitution of Ukraine. 

15 SEC. 205. MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR UKRAINE. 

16 (a) AUTHORITY.—The President may provide lethal 

17 and non-lethal assistance in the form of military hardware 

18 to the Government of Ukraine to resist invasion by the 

19 Russian Federation. 

20 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

21 authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000,000 to the 

22 Secretary of State for fiscal year 2022 for Foreign Mili23 tary Financing assistance to Ukraine as authorized under 

24 subsection (a). 


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1 SEC. 206. CLOSURE OF CONSULATES; RESTRICTION ON 

2 FREE MOVEMENT OF RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS. 

3 (a) CLOSURE OF CONSULATES.—The Secretary of 

4 State shall take such actions as are necessary to close, 

5 as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this 

6 Act, all property and facilities affiliated with the mission 

7 of the Russian Federation in the United States other than 

8 the embassy located in Washington, D.C. 

9 (b) RESTRICTION ON FREE MOVEMENT OF RUSSIAN

10 DIPLOMATS.—The Secretary of State shall ensure that 

11 members of the foreign mission of the Russian Federation 

12 in the United States and their family members are not 

13 permitted outside of a 10-mile radius surrounding the em14 bassy of the Russian Federation located in Washington, 

15 D.C. The Secretary shall coordinate with the heads of 

16 other Federal departments and agencies as necessary to 

17 ensure that such members and family members are not 

18 allowed to use such permitted space to leave the United 

19 States by land, air, or sea, consistent with obligations 

20 under international law. 

21 SEC. 207. ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REQUIREMENTS FOR 

22 REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS. 

23 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

24 (1) BENEFICIAL OWNER.—The term ‘‘beneficial 

25 owner’’ has the meaning given the term in section 

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1 (2) COVERED TRANSACTION.—The term ‘‘cov2 ered transaction’’ means the purchase of residential 

3 real property by a Russian politically exposed per4 son, regardless of the total purchase price. 

5 (3) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 

6 the Director of FinCEN. 

7 (4) FINCEN.—The term ‘‘FinCEN’’ means the 

8 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the De9 partment of the Treasury. 

10 (5) RESPONSIBLE PARTY.—The term ‘‘respon11 sible party’’ means a person described in section 

12 5312(a)(2)(U) of title 31, United States Code, in13 cluding— 

14 (A) a title insurance company; 

15 (B) an escrow agent; 

16 (C) a real estate lawyer; and 

17 (D) a real estate agent. 

18 (6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

19 the Secretary of the Treasury. 

20 (b) REPORTING REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS IN21 VOLVING RUSSIAN POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS.— 

22 With respect to a covered transaction, the Director shall 

23 require a responsible party to the covered transaction to 

24 report to the Director— 


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1 (1) the source of funding for the covered trans2 action; and 

3 (2) the name of each Russian politically exposed 

4 person involved in the covered transaction. 

5 (c) REQUIREMENTS FOR GEOGRAPHIC TARGETING

6 ORDERS.—In issuing a Geographic Targeting Order that 

7 requires responsible parties to collect and report informa8 tion about certain persons involved in certain residential 

9 real estate transactions, the Director— 

10 (1) shall not limit the transactions to be re11 ported under the order by total purchase price; 

12 (2) shall expand the entities that are required 

13 to collect and report information to primarily be the 

14 title insurance company, followed by the parties de15 scribed in subparagraphs (B) through (D) of sub16 section (a)(4); 

17 (3) shall define the term ‘‘beneficial ownership’’ 

18 as provided in section 5336(a) of title 31, United 

19 States Code; and 

20 (4) shall require the reporting of residential real 

21 property that is purchased by a trust. 

22 (d) ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REQUIREMENTS FOR

23 REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS.—In accordance with the 

24 authority under section 5318(a)(2) of title 31, United 

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1 quire all responsible parties with respect to residential real 

2 estate transactions of any total purchase price to comply 

3 with the due diligence and reporting requirements applica4 ble to financial institutions under subchapter II of chapter 

5 53 of title 31, United States Code, including— 

6 (1) reporting suspicious transactions under sec7 tion 5318(g)(1) of title 31, United States Code; 

8 (2) establishing anti-money laundering pro9 grams under section 5318(h) of title 31, United 

10 States Code; 

11 (3) establishing due diligence policies, proce12 dures, and controls under section 5318(i) of title 31, 

13 United States Code; and 

14 (4) identifying and verifying account holders (or 

15 functional equivalents) under section 5318(l) of title 

16 31, United States Code, including by establishing 

17 and maintaining written procedures that are reason18 ably designed to enable the responsible party to 

19 identify and verify beneficial owners. 


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Calendar No. 293 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3723 

A BILL 

To impose sanctions with respect to the Russian 

Government of Ukraine, and for other purposes. eration and remit those assets to the legitimate Ukraine, to confiscate assets of the Russian FedFederation in response to the invasion of 

MARCH 2, 2022 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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