[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 65 (Thursday, April 4, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20390-20391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07853]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Unblocking 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 publishing the names of one individual and one
entity whose property and interests in property have been unblocked
pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (``Kingpin
Act'') (21 U.S.C. Sections 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. 1182).
DATES: The unblocking and removal from the list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the one individual and
one entity identified in this notice whose property and interests in
property were blocked pursuant to the Kingpin Act, is effective on
March 28, 2013.
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.
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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 March 28, 2013, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List
the one individual and one entity listed below, whose property and
interests in property were blocked pursuant to the Kingpin Act:
Individual
CASTRO, Jesus Maria, c/o NEGOCIOS INTERNACIONALES DEL ECUADOR
NIDEGROUP S.A., Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador; c/o SNACK PARTY, Quito,
Pichincha, Ecuador; DOB 20 Nov 1967; alt. DOB 28 Nov 1967; alt. DOB 11
Nov 1967; POB Dolores, Uruguay; Cedula No. 172101469-2 (Ecuador);
Passport B716164 (Uruguay); alt. Passport C144880 (Uruguay); alt.
Passport 02952296-8 (Uruguay) (individual) [SDNTK].
Entity
SNACK PARTY, Los Vinedos 19 y Venezuela, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador;
RUC 1721014692001 (Ecuador) [SDNTK].
Dated: March 28, 2013.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2013-07853 Filed 4-3-13; 8:45 am]
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