[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR13.2]

[Page 83-84]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 13--PERSONNEL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 13.2  Embezzlement.

    Every consular officer who shall receive money, property, or effects 
belonging to a citizen of the United

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States and shall not within a reasonable time after demand made upon him 
or her by the Secretary of State or by such citizen, his or her 
executor, administrator, or legal representative, account for and pay 
over all moneys, property, and effects, less his or her lawful fees, due 
to such citizen, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be 
punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years, and by a fine 
of not more than $2,000 (22 U.S.C. 1198). Penalties of imprisonment and 
fine are also prescribed for embezzlement in connection with the 
acceptance, without execution of a prescribed form of bond, of 
appointment from any foreign state as administrator, guardian, or to any 
other office of trust for the settlement or conservation of estates of 
deceased persons or of their heirs or of persons under legal 
disabilities (22 U.S.C. 1178 and 1179). Acceptance of such appointments 
is not ordinarily permitted under existing regulations. See Sec. 92.81 
of this chapter.

(22 U.S.C. 2658 and 3926)

[22 FR 10789, Dec. 27, 1957, as amended at 49 FR 16989, Apr. 23, 1984]