Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-102
§4115 Execution of Sentences Imposing an Obligation to Make Restitution or Reparations
Title 18 › PART III — PRISONS AND PRISONERS › CHAPTER 306 — TRANSFER TO OR FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES › § 4115
Summary
U.S. courts may treat a foreign court's order that an offender transferred to the United States pay a victim like a U.S. civil judgment. The Attorney General may collect it in any U.S. district court and must send recovered funds through diplomatic channels to the transferring country's treaty authority for the victim.
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Title 18, §4115
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If in a sentence issued in a penal proceeding of a transferring country an offender transferred to the United States has been ordered to pay a sum of money to the victim of the offense for damage caused by the offense, that penalty or award of damages may be enforced as though it were a civil judgment rendered by a United States district court. Proceedings to collect the moneys ordered to be paid may be instituted by the Attorney General in any United States district court. Moneys recovered pursuant to such proceedings shall be transmitted through diplomatic channels to the treaty authority of the transferring country for distribution to the victim.
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18 U.S.C. § 4115
Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102