Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, Executive Order 12978
Notice published October 6, 2016 · 81 FR 69569
- Document number
- FR Doc. 2016-24186
- Type
- Notice
- Published
- October 6, 2016
- Citation
- 81 FR 69569 (pages 69,569–69,570)
- Action
- Notice.
- Effective
- September 29, 2016
- Dates
- The unblocking and removal from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the individual identified in this notice whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, is effective on September 29, 2016.
- 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 publishing the name of an individual whose property and interests in property has been unblocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, "Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers".
Executive orders cited
- Executive Order 12978 · Other documents citing it
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 81, Number 194 (Thursday, October 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69569-69570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24186]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons,
Executive Order 12978
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 publishing the name of an individual whose property
and interests in property has been unblocked pursuant to Executive
Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, ``Blocking Assets and Prohibiting
Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers''.
DATES: The unblocking and removal from the list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the individual identified
in this notice whose property and interests in property were blocked
pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, is effective on
September 29, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions
Compliance & Evaluation, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign
Assets Control, Washington, DC 20220, Tel: (202) 622-2490.
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).
Background
On October 21, 1995, the President, invoking the authority, inter
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701-1706) (IEEPA), issued Executive Order 12978 (60 FR 54579, October
24, 1995) (the Order). In the Order, the President declared a national
emergency to deal with the threat posed by significant foreign
narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia and the harm that they cause
in the United States and abroad.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1)
The foreign persons listed in an Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign
person determined by the Secretary of Treasury, in consultation with
the Attorney General and the Secretary of State: (a) To play a
significant role in international narcotics trafficking centered in
Colombia; or (b) to materially assist in, or provide financial or
technological support for or goods or services in support of, the
narcotics trafficking activities of persons designated in or pursuant
to the Order; and (3) persons determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General
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and the Secretary of State, to be owned or controlled by, or to act for
or on behalf of, persons designated pursuant to the Order.
On September 29, 2016, the Associate Director of the Office of
Global Targeting removed from the SDN List the individual listed below,
whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant to the
Order:
RICARDO DIAZ, Alfonso, Calle 15 No. 10-52, La Union, Valle,
Colombia; c/o CASA GRAJALES S.A., La Union, Valle, Colombia; c/o
CRETA S.A., La Union, Valle, Colombia; c/o FREXCO S.A., La Union,
Valle, Colombia; c/o HEBRON S.A., Tulua, Valle, Colombia; c/o WORLD
WORKING COMERCIALIZADORA INTERNACIONAL S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o
FUNDACION CENTRO FRUTICOLA ANDINO, La Union, Valle, Colombia; Cedula
No. 14950952 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
Dated: September 29, 2016.
Gregory T. Gatjanis,
Associate Director, Office of Global Targeting, Office of Foreign
Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2016-24186 Filed 10-5-16; 8:45 am]
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