Combatting corruption and kleptocracy

It is the policy of the United States— (1) to leverage United States diplomatic engagement and foreign assistance to promote the rule of law and good governance; (2) to coordinate with other like-minded states to counter corruption, kleptocracy, and illicit finance; (3) to help foreign partner countries strengthen their legal and financial architecture to better protect against illicit finance and investigate, prosecute, adjudicate, and more generally combat the use of corruption by malign actors; (4) to assist in the recovery of kleptocracy-related stolen assets, including through appropriate bilateral arrangements and international agreements which the United States has ratified, such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption, done at New York October 31, 2003, and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, done at New York November 15, 2000; and (5) to use existing authorities, such as the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328; 22 U.S.C. 2656 note)) and section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2020 (division G of Public Law 116–94), to identify and take action against corrupt foreign actors, and to ensure the use of such punitive measures are seen to be credible and strictly nonpartial.