---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3293"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3293"
heading: "Financial institution offenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3293"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 213 — Limitations"
---

# §3293. Financial institution offenses


No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate—

- (1) section [215](/usc/18/215.md), [656](/usc/18/656.md), [657](/usc/18/657.md), [1005](/usc/18/1005.md), [1006](/usc/18/1006.md), [1007](/usc/18/1007.md), [1014](/usc/18/1014.md), [1033](/usc/18/1033.md), or [1344](/usc/18/1344.md);
- (2) section [1341](/usc/18/1341.md) or [1343](/usc/18/1343.md), if the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) affects a financial institution; or
- (3) [section 1963](/usc/18/1963.md), to the extent that the racketeering activity involves a violation of [section 1344](/usc/18/1344.md);

unless the indictment is returned or the information is filed within 10 years after the commission of the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 961(l)(1), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 501; amended Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2505(a), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4862; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320604(b), title XXXIII, § 330002(e), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2119, 2140.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Par. (1). Pub. L. 103–322 struck out “1008,” after “1007,” and inserted “1033,” after “1014,”.

1990—Par. (3). Pub. L. 101–647 added par. (3).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1990 Amendment

Pub. L. 101–647, title XXV, § 2505(b), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4862, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to any offense committed before the date of the enactment of this section [Nov. 29, 1990], if the statute of limitations applicable to that offense had not run as of such date.”

### Effect of This Section on Offenses for Which Prior Period of Limitations Had Not Run

Pub. L. 101–73, title IX, § 961(l)(3), Aug. 9, 1989, 103 Stat. 501, provided that: “The amendments made by this subsection [enacting this section] shall apply to an offense committed before the effective date of this section [Aug. 9, 1989], if the statute of limitations applicable to that offense under this chapter had not run as of such date.”