[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33561-33562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13709]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons 
Pursuant to 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 names of the individuals and 
entities whose property and interests in property have 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 individuals and 
entities identified in this notice whose property and interests in 
property were blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 
1995, is effective on May 24, 2012.

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 (www.treasury.gov/ofac) or via facsimile 
through a 24-hour fax-on demand service at (202) 622-0077.

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 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 May 24, 2012, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List the 
individuals and entities listed below, whose property and interests in 
property were blocked pursuant to the Order:

Individuals

    1. AGUILAR ROJAS, Luz Elena, c/o PARQUE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESO S.A., 
Yumbo, Colombia; c/o GEOPLASTICOS S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 14 Mar 
1966; POB Cali, Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 31940893 (Colombia); 
Passport 31940893 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
    2. LARES RANGEL, Jose Luis, c/o GRUPO C.L.P. CONSTRUCTORA S.A. DE 
C.V.; Calle Lopez Cotilla 2032, Piso 10, Colonia Americana, 
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Ignacio Ramos Praslow 640, Guadalajara, 
Jalisco, Mexico; DOB 18 Apr 1942; POB Ciudad Guzman, Jalisco, Mexico; 
citizen Mexico; nationality Mexico; C.U.R.P. LARL420418HJCRNS01 
(Mexico) (individual) [SDNT]

Entities

    1. CORPORACION CLUB DEPORTIVO TULUA (a.k.a. CORTULUA), Carrera 26 
No. 32-70 B. Salesiano, Tulua, Valle, Colombia; NIT  
800097185-2 (Colombia) [SDNT]

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    2. GRUPO C.L.P. CONSTRUCTORA S.A. DE C.V., Calle San Uriel 690, 
Interior 10, Piso 4, Colonia Chapalita, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 
[SDNT]

    Dated: May 24, 2012.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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