Quoting a memo to employees by Pandit, the leading financial daily 'Wall Street Journal' said Senior Counselor Robert Rubin is also foregoing the annual bonus and bonuses for other top executives would be "reduced substantially".

Citigroup, which has now received USD 45 billion in federal capital infusions and a government-financed arrangement to insulate it from hundreds of billions of dollars in potential losses, was widely expected to substantially curtail its compensation costs, the Journal said.

Other financial institutions that are receiving taxpayer funds previously have announced that their top executives will forego bonuses for 2008, a year in which Citigroup and other banking companies were battered by losses, it noted.

The terms of the latest rescue package, disclosed in a securities filing Wednesday, are the latest sign that the Treasury Department is seeking to exert sway over the internal Citigroup operations, the paper said.