Updating of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons Pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
Notice published November 27, 2015 · 80 FR 74215
- Document number
- FR Doc. 2015-30117
- Type
- Notice
- Published
- November 27, 2015
- Citation
- 80 FR 74215 (pages 74,215–74,216)
- Action
- Notice.
- Effective
- November 12, 2015
- Dates
- The update to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the vessel identified in this notice, is effective on November 12, 2015.
- Official sources
- PDF (govinfo.gov) · federalregister.gov
Summary
The Federal Register's summaryThe Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is updating the identifying information for one vessel that was previously identified as blocked property pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) (21 U.S.C. Sections 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. Section 1182).
Text
As the Government Publishing Office publishes it. Pages OFAC printed as images (in recent notices, the lists of names) are in the official PDF.
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74215-74216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30117]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Updating of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons
Pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is updating the identifying information for one vessel
that was previously identified as blocked property pursuant to the
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) (21 U.S.C.
Sections 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. Section 1182).
DATES: The update to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and
Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the vessel identified in this notice, is
effective on November 12, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions
Compliance & Evaluation, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign
Assets Control, Washington, DC 20220, Tel: (202) 622-2420.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
This document and additional information concerning OFAC are
available from OFAC's Web site at www.treasury.gov/ofac or via
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand service at (202) 622-0077.
Background
On December 3, 1999, the Kingpin Act was signed into law by the
President of the United States. The Kingpin Act provides a statutory
framework for the President to impose sanctions against significant
foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations on a worldwide
basis, with the objective of denying their businesses and agents access
to the U.S. financial system and to the benefits of trade and
transactions involving U.S. persons and entities.
The Kingpin Act blocks all property and interests in property,
subject to U.S. jurisdiction, owned or controlled by significant
foreign narcotics traffickers as identified by the President. In
addition, the Secretary of the Treasury consults with the Attorney
General, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of
State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security when designating and
blocking the property or interests in property, subject to U.S.
jurisdiction, of persons or entities found to be: (1) Materially
assisting in, or providing financial or technological support for or
to, or providing goods or services in support of, the international
narcotics trafficking activities of a person designated pursuant to the
Kingpin Act; (2) owned, controlled, or directed by, or acting for or on
behalf of, a person designated pursuant to the Kingpin Act; and/or (3)
playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking.
On November 12, 2015, the Associate Director of the Office of
Global Targeting updated the SDN listing of the vessel listed below
pursuant to the Kingpin Act:
Vessel
1. CITY OF TOKYO (D5GK6) Liberia flag; Vessel Registration
Identification IMO 8709145; MMSI 636016488 (vessel) [SDNTK] (Linked
To: MERHI, Merhi Ali Abou; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL).
To
CITY OF TOKYO (3ELV6) Panama flag; Vessel Registration
Identification IMO 8709145; MMSI 636016488 (vessel) [SDNTK] (Linked
To: MERHI, Merhi Ali
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Abou; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL).
Dated: November 12, 2015.
Gregory T. Gatjanis,
Associate Director, Office of Global Targeting, Office of Foreign
Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-30117 Filed 11-25-15; 8:45 am]
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