S 39
Stop maduro act
Stop Maduro Act
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Bill overview
This bill, titled the ‘Stop Maduro Act,’ increases the maximum reward the Department of State can offer for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nicolás Maduro Moros to $100 million. The funds for this reward will come solely from assets that the U.S. government has already frozen from Maduro, officials of the Maduro regime, and their associates due to sanctions. The bill highlights the ongoing criminal charges against Maduro for drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.
Key provisions
- Increases the maximum reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest and conviction to $100 million.
- Funds for the reward will be derived exclusively from assets frozen from Maduro and his associates.
- The Secretary of State can pay rewards to individuals who provide information directly leading to Maduro’s arrest and conviction.
- The bill references several existing sanctions authorities used against Maduro and the Venezuelan regime.
- It specifically cites the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act, and several Executive Orders.
- The bill reaffirms existing criminal charges against Maduro for drug trafficking and related offenses.
Who is affected
- Nicolás Maduro Moros
- Officials of the Maduro regime
- Co-conspirators of Maduro
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
S. 39
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
A BILL
To increase the maximum reward amount for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nicolás Maduro Moros to $100,000,000, which shall be paid out by the Federal Government from all assets being withheld from Nicolás Maduro Moros, officials of the Maduro regime and their co-conspirators.
This Act may be cited as the Securing Timely Opportunities for Payment and Maximizing Awards for Detaining Unlawful Regime Officials Act of 2025 STOP MADURO Act
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Congress finds the following:
In 2020, the Trump administration charged Venezuela regime leader Nicolás Maduro Moros, along with other regime officials with—
On March 26, 2020, United States Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman of the Southern District of New York stated in a press release, Today we announce criminal charges against Nicolás Maduro for running, together with his top lieutenants, a narco-terrorism partnership with the FARC for the past twenty years. The scope and magnitude of the drug trafficking alleged was made possible only because Maduro and others corrupted the institutions of Venezuela and provided political and military protection for the rampant narco-terrorism crimes described in our charges. As alleged, Maduro and the other defendants expressly intended to flood the United States with cocaine in order to undermine the health and well-being of our nation. Maduro very deliberately deployed cocaine as a weapon.
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The press release included a statement from United States Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, who stated, In the last couple of years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida and its Federal law enforcement partners have united to bring dozens of criminal charges against high-level regime officials and co-conspirators resulting in seizures of approximately $450 million dollars.
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any other sanctions provision.