; (2) freeing political prisoners; (3) facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid; and (4) establishing conditions for free and fair democratic elections. (f) Briefings Upon a request from the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate , the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives , the Committee on Finance of the Senate , or the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives , the Secretary of Treasury shall brief the requesting committee on the progress made in implementing the framework created under subsection (a). 302. Recovering assets stolen from the Venezuelan people (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Venezuela ranked 169th out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2017. (2) In March 2016, the International Center for Asset Recovery at the Basel Institute on Governance in Switzerland estimated that approximately $350,000,000,000 in public funding had been lost in Venezuela as the result of corruption, fraud, and graft. (3) In March 2015, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network determined that approximately $2,000,000,000 had been siphoned from Venezuela’s public oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., in conjunction with its designation of the Banca Privada d’Andorra as a Foreign Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern. (b) In general The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, shall advance a coordinated international effort— (1) to carry out special financial investigations to identify and track assets taken from the people and institutions of Venezuela through theft, corruption, money laundering, or other illicit means; and (2) work with foreign governments— (A) to share financial investigations intelligence, as appropriate; (B) to block the assets identified pursuant to paragraph (1)