[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 6570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02312]
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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 three individuals 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 three individuals
identified in this notice whose property and interests in property were
blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, is
effective on January 27, 2015.
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 January 27, 2015, the Associate Director, Office of Global
Targeting of OFAC removed from the SDN List three individuals listed
below, whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant
to the Order:
Individuals
1. PARRA DUQUE, Guillermo, Carrera 3 Oeste No. 11-168, Cali, Colombia;
DOB 30 Dec 1964; POB Cali, Colombia; Cedula No. 16824664 (Colombia);
Passport AF776832 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
2. RIVERA ZAPATA, Freddy, c/o UNIPAPEL S.A., Yumbo, Colombia; c/o
CREDISA S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o FINVE S.A., Bogota, Colombia; c/o
COMPANIA DE FOMENTO MERCANTIL S.A., Cali, Colombia; POB Cali, Valle,
Colombia; Cedula No. 16602963 (Colombia); Passport 16602963 (Colombia)
(individual) [SDNT].
3. VALENCIA TRUJILLO, Agueda, Carrera 4 No. 11-45 Ofc. 506, Cali,
Colombia; Carrera 5 No. 17-66, Cali, Colombia; Calle 9N A 3-37 Apt.
701, Cali, Colombia; c/o CREDISA S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o COMPANIA DE
FOMENTO MERCANTIL S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o PARQUE INDUSTRIAL PROGRESO
S.A., Yumbo, Colombia; c/o CONSTRUCCIONES PROGRESO DEL PUERTO S.A.,
Puerto Tejada, Colombia; c/o UNIDAS S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 10 Aug
1959; POB Cali, Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 38943524 (Colombia);
Passport 38943524 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
Dated: January 27, 2015.
Gregory T. Gatjanis,
Associate Director, Office of Global Targeting, Office of Foreign
Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-02312 Filed 2-4-15; 8:45 am]
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