<P> The Act also introduced criminal penalties for corrupt officialdom . An official or employee of the government who acts corruptly--as well as the person who induces the corrupt act--in the carrying out of their official duties will be fined by an amount that is not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the bribe in question . Alternatively they may be imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or they may be fined and imprisoned . Penalties apply to financial institutions who do not comply with an order to terminate any corresponding accounts within 10 days of being so ordered by the Attorney General or the Secretary of Treasury . The financial institution can be fined $US 10,000 for each day the account remains open after the 10 - day limit has expired . </P> <P> The second annotation made a number of modifications to the BSA in an attempt to make it harder for money launderers to operate and easier for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to police money laundering operations . One amendment made to the BSA was to allow the designated officer or agency who receives suspicious activity reports to notify U.S. intelligence agencies . A number of amendments were made to address issues related to record keeping and financial reporting . One measure was a new requirement that anyone who does business file a report for any coin and foreign currency receipts that are over US $10,000 and made it illegal to structure transactions in a manner that evades the BSA's reporting requirements . To make it easier for authorities to regulate and investigate anti-money laundering operations Money Services Businesses (MSBs)--those who operate informal value transfer systems outside of the mainstream financial system--were included in the definition of a financial institution . The BSA was amended to make it mandatory to report suspicious transactions and an attempt was made to make such reporting easier for financial institutions . FinCEN was made a bureau of the United States Department of Treasury and the creation of a secure network to be used by financial institutions to report suspicious transactions and to provide alerts of relevant suspicious activities was ordered . Along with these reporting requirements, a considerable number of provisions relate to the prevention and prosecution of money - laundering . Financial institutions were ordered to establish anti-money laundering programs and the BSA was amended to better define anti-money laundering strategy . Also increased were civil and criminal penalties for money laundering and the introduction of penalties for violations of geographic targeting orders and certain record - keeping requirements . A number of other amendments to the BSA were made through subtitle B, including granting the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System power to authorize personnel to act as law enforcement officers to protect the premises, grounds, property and personnel of any U.S. National reserve bank and allowing the Board to delegate this authority to U.S. Federal reserve bank . Another measure instructed United States Executive Directors of international financial institutions to use their voice and vote to support any country that has taken action to support the U.S.'s War on Terrorism . Executive Directors are now required to provide ongoing auditing of disbursements made from their institutions to ensure that no funds are paid to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism . </P> <P> The third subtitle deals with currency crimes . Largely because of the effectiveness of the BSA, money launders had been avoiding traditional financial institutions to launder money and were using cash - based businesses to avoid them . A new effort was made to stop the laundering of money through bulk currency movements, mainly focusing on the confiscation of criminal proceeds and the increase in penalties for money laundering . Congress found that a criminal offense of merely evading the reporting of money transfers was insufficient and decided that it would be better if the smuggling of the bulk currency itself was the offense . Therefore, the BSA was amended to make it a criminal offense to evade currency reporting by concealing more than US $10,000 on any person or through any luggage, merchandise or other container that moves into or out of the U.S. The penalty for such an offense is up to 5 years imprisonment and the forfeiture of any property up to the amount that was being smuggled . It also made the civil and criminal penalty violations of currency reporting cases be the forfeiture of all a defendant's property that was involved in the offense, and any property traceable to the defendant . The Act prohibits and penalizes those who run unlicensed money transmitting businesses . In 2005, this provision of the USA PATRIOT Act was used to prosecute Yehuda Abraham for helping to arrange money transfers for British arms dealer Hermant Lakhani, who was arrested in August 2003 after being caught in a government sting . Lakhani had tried to sell a missile to an FBI agent posing as a Somali militant . The definition of counterfeiting was expanded to encompass analog, digital or electronic image reproductions, and it was made an offense to own such a reproduction device . Penalties were increased to 20 years imprisonment . Money laundering "unlawful activities" was expanded to include the provision of material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations . The Act specifies that anyone who commits or conspires to undertake a fraudulent activity outside the jurisdiction of the United States, and which would be an offense in the U.S., will be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 1029, which deals with fraud and related activity in connection with access devices . </P> <P> Title IV amends the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to give more law enforcement and investigative power to the United States Attorney General and to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The Attorney General was authorized to waive any cap on the number of full - time employees (FTEs) assigned to the INS on the Northern border of the United States . Enough funds were set aside to triple the maximum number of Border Patrol personnel, Customs Service personnel and INS inspectors along with an additional US $50,000,000 funding for the INS and the U.S. Customs Service to improve technology for monitoring the Northern Border and acquiring additional equipment at the Canadian northern border . The INS was also given the authority to authorize overtime payments of up to an extra US $30,000 a year to INS employees . Access was given to the Department of State and the INS to criminal background information contained in the National Crime Information Center's Interstate Identification Index (NCIC - III), Wanted Persons File and any other files maintained by the National Crime Information Center to determine whether visa applicants and applicants could be admitted to the U.S. The Department of State was required to form final regulations governing the procedures for taking fingerprints and the conditions with which the department was allowed to use this information . Additionally, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was ordered to develop a technology standard to verify the identity of persons applying for a United States visa . The reason was to make the standard the technology basis for a cross-agency, cross-platform electronic system used for conducting background checks, confirming identities and ensuring that people have not received visas under different names . This report was released on November 13, 2002, however, according to NIST, this was later "determined that the fingerprint system used was not as accurate as current state - of - the - art fingerprint systems and is approximately equivalent to commercial fingerprint systems available in 1998 ." This report was later superseded by section 303 (a) of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 . </P>

Which of the following was a provision of the patriot act of 2001