§1531 Apprehension and Prosecution of International Cyber Criminals

Summary

Creates rules for how the United States deals with people called "international cyber criminals." An "international cyber criminal" means someone believed to have committed a cybercrime or an intellectual property crime against the U.S. or Americans, and who either has a U.S. arrest warrant or is the subject of an Interpol Red Notice. The Secretary of State must talk with officials of countries where these people live but where extradition to the U.S. is unlikely. The goal of those talks is to find out what those countries are doing to arrest and prosecute the criminals and to stop them from committing more crimes against the U.S. or its citizens. The Secretary of State must also send Congress a yearly report. The report must say how many such criminals are in each country and note which countries are unlikely to extradite them. It must list important discussions the State Department had with other countries about stopping or prosecuting these criminals, naming each country. For every person extradited to the U.S. in the last calendar year, the report must give their name, the crimes charged, their previous country of residence, and the country that extradited them. The report should be unclassified when possible but may include a classified annex. It must go to the named Senate committees (Foreign Relations; Appropriations; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Select Committee on Intelligence; Judiciary) and the named House committees (Foreign Affairs; Appropriations; Homeland Security; Financial Services; Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Judiciary).