---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9741"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9741"
heading: "Recovering assets stolen from the Venezuelan people"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9741"
units:
  - "Chapter 104 — Venezuela Assistance"
  - "Subchapter V — Supporting the Reconstruction of Venezuela"
---

# §9741. Recovering assets stolen from the Venezuelan people

- (a) **Recovering assets—** The President, acting through the Secretary of State and in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury, shall advance a coordinated international effort—
  - (1) to work with [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) governments—
    - (A) to share financial investigations intelligence, as appropriate;
    - (B) to block the assets identified pursuant to [paragraph (2)](#a-2); and
    - (C) to provide technical assistance to help governments establish the necessary legal framework to carry out asset forfeitures; and
  - (2) to carry out special financial investigations to identify and track assets taken from the people and institutions of Venezuela through theft, corruption, money laundering, or other illicit means.
- (b) **Strategy requirement—**
  - (1) **In general—** Not later than 180 days after December 20, 2019, the President, acting through the Secretary of State and in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury, shall submit a strategy for carrying out the activities described in [subsection (a)](#a) to Congress.
  - (2) **Additional elements—** The strategy required under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) shall—
    - (A) assess whether the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) or another member of the international community should establish a managed [fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) to hold the assets identified pursuant to [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) that could be returned to a future democratic government in Venezuela; and
    - (B) include such recommendations as the President and the Secretary of State consider appropriate for legislative or administrative action in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) that would be needed to establish and manage the [fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) described in [subparagraph (A)](#b-2-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–94, div. J, title I, § 151, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3039.)