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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§8904 Recovery of Assets Linked to Governmental Corruption in Ukraine

Title 22 › CHAPTER 96 — SOVEREIGNTY, INTEGRITY, DEMOCRACY, AND ECONOMIC STABILITY OF UKRAINE › § 8904

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Help Ukraine quickly find, secure, and recover assets tied to corruption by Viktor Yanukovych, his family, other Ukrainian officials, or their accomplices anywhere in the world. The Secretary of State, working with the Attorney General and the Treasury Secretary, must use appropriate programs, including the Department of Justice’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative. Coordinate these efforts with international groups like the Egmont Group, the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the Camden network, and INTERPOL’s Global Focal Point. The Secretary of State and Attorney General must give fast investigative help and training to Ukraine, the EU, and other countries. The Treasury Secretary must ensure FinCEN helps under section 314(a) of the USA PATRIOT Act (31 U.S.C. 5311 note).

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §8904

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Asset recovery
The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, shall assist, on an expedited basis as appropriate, the Government of Ukraine to identify, secure, and recover assets linked to acts of corruption by Viktor Yanukovych, members of his family, or other former or current officials of the Government of Ukraine or their accomplices in any jurisdiction through appropriate programs, including the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative of the Department of Justice.
(b)Coordination
Any asset recovery efforts undertaken pursuant to subsection (a) shall be coordinated through the relevant bilateral or multilateral entities, including, as appropriate, the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative of the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Camden Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network, and the Global Focal Point Initiative of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL).
(c)Investigative assistance
The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall assist the Government of Ukraine, the European Union, and other appropriate countries, on an expedited basis, with formal and informal investigative assistance and training, as appropriate, to support the identification, seizure, and return to the Government of Ukraine of assets linked to acts of corruption.
(d)Priority assigned
The Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury assists the Government of Ukraine, the European Union, and other appropriate countries under section 314(a) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (31 U.S.C. 5311 note).

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section 314(a) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, referred to in subsec. (d), is section 314(a) of Pub. L. 107–56, which is set out as a note under section 5311 of Title 31, Money and Finance.

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22 U.S.C. § 8904

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110