[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR13.2]

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                       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 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

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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]