Federal · Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

22 U.S.C. § 10501: Definitions

Civil

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This statute defines terms related to foreign corruption for purposes of sanctions or regulatory action, including what constitutes corruption and which foreign persons or entities may be subject to such measures.

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the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Financial Services, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. any foreign person or entity that is a government official or government entity responsible for, or complicit in, an act of corruption; and any company, in which a person or entity described in subparagraph (A) has a significant stake, which is responsible for, or complicit in, an act of corruption. The term “corruption” means the unlawful exercise of entrusted public power for private gain, including by bribery, nepotism, fraud, or embezzlement. Illegitimately distorts major decision-making, such as policy or resource determinations, or other fundamental functions of governance. Involves economically or socially large-scale government activities.

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