Title: Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy Act of 2019
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Justice to publish and regularly update its website with an accounting of property that is forfeited to the United States as a result of foreign government corruption. It also expresses the sense of Congress that forfeited funds shall be returned to the lawful owner.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4361 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4361

 To require an accounting of certain property forfeited to the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2019

Mr. Malinowski (for himself, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Fitzpatrick, 
 Ms. Moore, and Ms. Jackson Lee) introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require an accounting of certain property forfeited to the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Justice for Victims of Kleptocracy 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FORFEITED PROPERTY.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 46 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 988. Accounting of certain forfeited property
    ``(a) Accounting.--The Attorney General shall make available to the 
public an accounting of any property relating to foreign government 
corruption that is forfeited to the United States under section 981 or 
982.
    ``(b) Format.--The accounting described under subsection (a) shall 
be published on the website of the Department of Justice in a format 
that includes the following:
            ``(1) A heading as follows: `Assets stolen from the people 
        of ______ and recovered by the United States', the blank space 
        being filled with the name of the foreign government that is 
        the target of corruption.
            ``(2) The total amount recovered by the United States on 
        behalf of the foreign government that is the target of 
        corruption.
    ``(c) Updated Website.--The Attorney General shall update the 
website of the Department of Justice to include an accounting of any 
new property that has been forfeited to the United States under section 
981 or 982 not later than 14 days after such forfeiture, unless such 
update would compromise an ongoing law enforcement investigation.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 46 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``988. Accounting of certain forfeited property.''.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that, as soon as practicable or at such 
time as a foreign government meets adequate standards of governance and 
democracy, as determined by the Secretary of State, funds forfeited to 
the United States as a result of foreign government corruption shall be 
returned to the lawful owner of the property.
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