[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27377-27378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11556]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Identifying Information Associated With Persons Whose 
Property and Interests in Property Are Blocked Pursuant to Executive 
Order 13572 of April 29, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons 
With Respect to Human Rights Abuses in Syria''

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing additional identifying information associated 
with the three individuals and two entities listed in the Annex to 
Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Certain 
Persons with Respect to Human Rights Abuses in Syria,'' whose property 
and interests in property are therefore blocked.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Assistant Director, Compliance

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Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. (Treasury Annex), 
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 (http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, Tel.: 202/622-0077.

Background

    On April 29, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13572, 
``Blocking Property of Certain Persons with Respect to Human Rights 
Abuses in Syria,'' (the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06). In the 
Order, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, that 
come within the United States, or that are or come within the 
possession or control of any United States person, of persons listed in 
the Annex to the Order and of persons determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to satisfy 
certain criteria set forth in the Order.
    The Annex to the Order lists three individuals and two entities 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 
Order. OFAC is publishing additional identifying information associated 
with those individuals and entities. As noted in the listings below, 
the property and interests in property of one of those entities also 
are blocked pursuant to other OFAC sanctions programs.
    The listings for those individuals and entities on OFAC's list of 
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons appear as follows:

Individuals

1. AL-ASAD, Mahir (a.k.a. ASSAD, Mahar; a.k.a. ASSAD, Maher); DOB 1968; 
Lieutenant Colonel; Position: Brigade Commander in the Syrian Army's 
4th Armored Division (individual) [SYRIA.]
2. MAMLUK, Ali (a.k.a. MAMLUK, 'Ali); DOB 1947; POB Amara, Damascus, 
Syria; Major General; Position: Director, General Intelligence 
Directorate (individual) [SYRIA.]
3. NAJIB, Atif (a.k.a. NAJEEB, Atef; a.k.a. NAJIB, Atef); POB Jablah, 
Syria; Brigadier General; Position: Former head of the Syrian Political 
Security Directorate for Dar'a Province (individual) [SYRIA.]

Entities

1. ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC)-QODS FORCE (a.k.a. 
PASDARAN-E ENGHELAB-E ISLAMI (PASDARAN); a.k.a. SEPAH-E QODS (JERUSALEM 
FORCE)) [SDGT] [SYRIA] [IRGC.]
2. SYRIAN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORATE (a.k.a. IDERAT AL-AMN AL-
'AMM), Syria [SYRIA.]

    Dated: May 4, 2011.
Adam Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2011-11556 Filed 5-10-11; 8:45 am]
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