[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 54946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21898]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designations of Individuals Pursuant to Executive 
Order 13581

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Treasury 's Office of Foreign 
Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of five individuals 
whose property and interests in property have been blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011, ``Blocking Property of 
Transnational Criminal Organizations'' (``the Order'').

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the five individuals 
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13581 is 
effective on June 6, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions 
Compliance & Evaluation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. 
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, Tel: (202) 622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available on OFAC's Web site at http://www.treasury.gov/ofac or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service at (202) 622-0077.

Background

    On July 24, 2011, the President, invoking the authority, inter 
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706), issued the Order. In the Order, the President declared a 
national emergency to deal with the threat posed by significant 
transnational criminal organizations 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 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, that constitutes a 
significant transnational criminal organization, or materially to 
assist in, or provide financial or technological support for or goods 
or services in support 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 June 6, 2012, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Departments of Justice, and State, designated 5 individuals, whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    The list of designees is as follows:

Individuals

    1. MIRZOYEV, Temuri Suleimanovich (a.k.a. MIRZOEV, Temuri; a.k.a. 
``TIMUR SVERDLOVSKIY''; a.k.a. ``TIMUR TBILISI''; a.k.a. ``TIMUR 
TBILISSKIY''), DOB 7 May 1957; POB Tbilisi, Georgia (individual) [TCO].
    2. SHEMAZASHVILI, Koba Shalvovich (a.k.a. SHERMAZASHVILI, Koba; 
a.k.a. ``KOBA RUSTAVSKIY''; a.k.a. ``TSITSILA''), DOB 1974; POB 
Rustavi, Georgia (individual) [TCO].
    3. SHUSHANASHVILI, Kakhaber Pavlovich (a.k.a. KOSTOV, Nikolay 
Lyudmilo; a.k.a. ROSTOV, Nicholas; a.k.a. SEPIASHVILI, Moshe Israel; 
a.k.a. SHUSHANASHVILI, Kajaver; a.k.a. SHUSHANASHVILI Kakha; a.k.a. 
``KAKHA RUSTAVSKIY''), 8 Rukavishnikov Street, Mariinskiy Posad, 
Chuvash Republic, Russia; DOB 8 Feb 1972; POB Rustavi, Georgia; alt. 
POB Kutaisi, Georgia; nationality Georgia (individual) [TCO].
    4. SHUSHANASHVILI, Lasha Pavlovich (a.k.a. MALGASOV, Ymar; a.k.a. 
SHUSHANASHVILI, Iasha Pavlovich; a.k.a. ``LASHA RUSTAVSKI''; a.k.a. 
``LASHA RUSTAVSKY''; a.k.a. ``LASHA TOLSTY''), DOB 25 Jul 1961; POB 
Rustavi, Georgia; nationality Georgia (individual) [TCO].
    5. VAGIN, Vladimir Viktorovich (a.k.a. ``VAGON''), Sadaf 2 Sector, 
Tower C06-T06, Apartment 603, Dubai 32900, United Arab Emirates; DOB 3 
Feb 1966; POB Raditshevo, Russia; nationality Russia (individual) 
[TCO].

    Dated: June 6, 2012.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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