Sec. 603. Sanctions on persons responsible for public corruption and undermining democratic governance

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Executive Order 13692 ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 note), which was signed on March 8, 2015, established sanctions against individuals responsible for undermining democratic processes and institutions and involved in acts of public corruption that were not included in the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–278 ). Section 5(a) of the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–278 ) is amended— in the matter preceding paragraph (1)— by striking Government of Venezuela and inserting Maduro regime (as defined in section 4 of the ; and Venezuela Emergency Relief, Democracy Assistance, and Development Act of 2019 ) by striking that Government and inserting that regime ; in paragraph (2), by striking or at the end; by redesignating paragraph

(3)as paragraph (5); by inserting after paragraph

(2)the following: is responsible for, or complicit in, ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, significant actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions; is a government official, or a senior associate of such an official, that is responsible for, or complicit in, ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, acts of significant corruption, including the expropriation of private or public assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, bribery, or the facilitation or transfer of the proceeds of corruption to foreign jurisdictions; or ; and in paragraph (5), as redesignated, by striking paragraph

(1)or

(2)and inserting paragraph (1), (2), (3), or

(4).

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