Sec. 9.3. SANCTIONS ON PERSONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION COMPLICIT IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNIFICANT CORRUPTION
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## SEC. 9.3 SANCTIONS ON PERSONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION COMPLICIT IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNIFICANT CORRUPTION **[**[22 U.S.C. 8908](/us/usc/t22/s8908)**]** ###
(a)In General The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)with respect to— ####
(1)any official of the Government of the Russian Federation, or a close associate or family member of such an official, that the President determines is, on or after the date of the enactment of the Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 2017, responsible for, or complicit in, or responsible for ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, acts of significant corruption in the Russian Federation or elsewhere, 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; and ####
(2)any individual who has materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of, an act described in paragraph (1). 3Sections 227 and 230(b) of Public Law 115–44 provides for amendments to provisions of section 9 of the “Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014”. Such amendments should have been made to the “Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014”, however, they were executed to reflect the probable intent of Congress. ###
(b)Sanctions Described ####
(1)In general The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: #####
(A)Asset blocking The exercise of all powers granted to the President by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of a person determined by the President to be subject to subsection
(a)if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person. #####
(B)Exclusion from the united states and revocation of visa or other documentation In the case of an alien determined by the President to be subject to subsection (a), denial of a visa to, and exclusion from the United States of, the alien, and revocation in accordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), of any visa or other documentation of the alien. ####
(2)Penalties A person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of paragraph (1)(A) or any regulation, license, or order issued to carry out paragraph (1)(A) shall be subject to the penalties set forth in subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that commits an unlawful act described in subsection
(a)of that section. ####
(3)Exception relating to the importation of goods #####
(A)In general The authority to block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property under paragraph (1)(A) shall not include the authority to impose sanctions on the importation of goods. #####
(B)Good defined In this paragraph, the term “good” has the meaning given that term in section 16 of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2415) (as continued in effect pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)). ####
(4)Exception to comply with united nations headquarters agreement Sanctions under paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply to an alien if admitting the alien into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations. ###
(c)Waiver except4 as provided in subsection (d), the President may waive the application of sanctions under subsection
(b)with respect to a person if the President— 4So in law. The word “[e]xcept” in the matter preceding paragraph
(1)of subsection
(c)should read “Except”. ####
(1)determines that such a waiver is in the national security interests of the United States; and ####
(2)on or before the date on which the waiver takes effect, submits to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives a notice of and a justification for the waiver. ###
(d)Termination Subject to section 216 of the Russia Sanctions Review Act of 2017, the President may terminate the application of sanctions under subsection
(b)with respect to a person if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a notice that— ####
(1)the person is not engaging in the activity that was the basis for the sanctions or has taken significant verifiable steps toward stopping the activity; and ####
(2)the President has received reliable assurances that the person will not knowingly engage in activity subject to sanctions under subsection
(a)in the future. ### (e)5 Application of New Sanctions The President may waive the initial application of sanctions under subsection
(b)with respect to a person only if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees— ####
(1)a written determination that the waiver— #####
(A)is in the vital national security interests of the United States; or #####
(B)will further the enforcement of this Act; and ####
(2)a certification that the Government of the Russian Federation is taking steps to implement the Minsk Agreement to address the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, signed in Minsk, Belarus, on February 11, 2015, by the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany, the Minsk Protocol, which was agreed to on September 5, 2014, and any successor agreements that are agreed to by the Government of Ukraine. 5Two subsection (e)s’ are so in law. See amendments made by sections 227(2), (4), and 230(b) of Public Law 115–44. ### (e)5 Regulatory Authority The President shall issue such regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary to carry out this section.
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Sec. 9.3
SANCTIONS ON PERSONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION COMPLICIT IN OR RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNIFICANT CORRUPTION
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