[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 221 (Tuesday, November 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71918-71919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29263]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation
Act
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 two individuals and two
entities whose property and interests in property have been blocked
pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act)
(21 U.S.C. 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. 1182).
DATES: The designation by the Acting Director of OFAC of the two
individuals and two entities identified in this notice pursuant to
section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act is effective on November 10, 2015.
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
The Kingpin Act became law on December 3, 1999. The Kingpin Act
establishes a program targeting the activities of significant foreign
narcotics traffickers and their organizations on a worldwide basis. It
provides a statutory framework for the imposition of 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 the benefits of trade
and transactions involving U.S. companies and individuals.
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, in consultation 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
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Administration, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and
the Secretary of Homeland Security, may designate and block the
property and interests in property, subject to U.S. jurisdiction, of
persons who are 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; or (3) playing a
significant role in international narcotics trafficking.
On November 10, 2015, the Acting Director of OFAC designated the
following two individuals and two entities whose property and interests
in property are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act.
Individuals
1. FEO ALVARADO, Alveiro (a.k.a. ``BENAVIDES''), Colombia; DOB
16 Jun 1967; POB El Paso, Cesar, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula
No. 77162067 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LOS
URABENOS). Designated for materially assisting in, or providing
support for or to, or providing goods or services in support of, the
international narcotics trafficking activities of LOS URABENOS; and/
or being controlled, directed by and/or acting for or on behalf of
LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory criteria for
designation as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT)
pursuant to sections 805(b)(2) and/or (3) of the Kingpin Act.
2. MOSQUERA PEREZ, Victor Alfonso (a.k.a. ``NEGRO MOSQUERA''),
Colombia; DOB 14 Sep 1984; POB Turbo, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen
Colombia; Cedula No. 8358401 (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LOS
URABENOS). Designated for materially assisting in, or providing
support for or to, or providing goods or services in support of, the
international narcotics trafficking activities of LOS URABENOS; and/
or being controlled, directed by, and/or acting for or on behalf of
LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory criteria for
designation as an SDNT pursuant to sections 805(b)(2) and/or (3) of
the Kingpin Act.
Entities
1. DE EXPOMINERIA S.A.S. (a.k.a. DE EXPOMINERIA S.A.), Calle 40,
81 a 15, Medellin, Colombia; NIT # 900328871-2 (Colombia) [SDNTK].
Designated for being owned, controlled, directed by, and/or acting
for or on behalf of LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory
criteria for designation as an SDNT pursuant to section 805(b)(3) of
the Kingpin Act.
2. JOYERIA MVK, Calle 100 # 10-29, Turbo, Antioquia, Colombia;
NIT # 8358401-7 (Colombia) [SDNTK]. Designated for being owned,
controlled, directed by, and/or acting for or on behalf of LOS
URABENOS and therefore meets the statutory criteria for designation
as an SDNT pursuant to section 805(b)(3) of the Kingpin Act.
Dated: November 10, 2015.
Andrea Gacki,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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