---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 4201"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "4201"
heading: "Filing of confidential declarations by private persons"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/4201"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Actions Against Persons Committing Bank Fraud Crimes"
  - "Subchapter I — Declarations Providing New Claims to United States"
---

# §4201. Filing of confidential declarations by private persons

- (a) **In general—** Any [person](/usc/12/5481.md?p=19) may file a declaration of a violation giving rise to an action for civil penalties under [section 1833a of this title](/usc/12/1833a.md) affecting a [depository institution](/usc/12/1861.md?p=b-4) insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other agency or entity of the United States.
- (b) **Place of filing—** A declaration under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be filed with the Attorney General of the United States or with an agent designated by the Attorney General for receiving declarations under this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2561, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4894.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2560, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4893, provided that: “This subtitle [subtitle H (§§ 2560–2594) of title XXV of Pub. L. 101–647, enacting this chapter and section 3059A of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and amending section 1831k of this title] may be cited as the ‘Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990’.”