§1531 Apprehension and Prosecution of International Cyber Criminals

Summary

Requires the Secretary of State (or someone they pick) to talk with officials in countries where people accused of international cybercrime live and where extradition to the United States is unlikely. The talks must find out what those countries have done to catch and prosecute the accused people and to stop them from committing cyber or intellectual property crimes against the United States or its citizens. Defines "international cyber criminal" as someone believed to have committed a cyber or intellectual property crime against U.S. interests or citizens and who has either a U.S. arrest warrant or an Interpol Red Notice. The Secretary must send an annual report to specified House and Senate committees. The report must list how many accused people are in each country (noting where extradition is unlikely), describe important State Department talks with other countries (naming those countries), and for each person extradited to the U.S. in the most recently completed calendar year give their name, the charges, their prior country of residence, and the country that extradited them. The report should be unclassified when possible but may include a classified annex.