[Federal Register: October 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 209)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Additional Designation of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order
13382
AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of four newly-designated entities
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, ``Blocking Property of Weapons
of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters.''
DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the four entities
identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is
effective on October 22, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 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 from OFAC's web site (http://www.treas.gov/offices/
enforcement/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand
service, tel.: (202) 622-0077.
Background
On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 FR 38567, July
1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time
on June 29, 2005. In the Order, the President took additional steps
with respect to the national emergency described and declared in
Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
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 State, in
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consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General,
and other relevant agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage,
in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or
pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles
capable of delivering such weapons), including any efforts to
manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such
items, by any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3)
any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant
agencies, to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial,
material, technological or other support for, or goods or services in
support of, any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above
or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to the Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary
of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the
Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, to be owned or
controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of,
directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
On October 22, 2008, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the
Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated
four entities whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
The list of additional designees is as follows:
1. EXPORT DEVELOPMENT BANK OF IRAN (a.k.a. BANK TOSEH SADERAT IRAN;
a.k.a. BANK TOWSEEH SADERAT IRAN; a.k.a. EDBI), Export Development
Building, Next to the 15th Alley, Bokharest Street, Argentina Square,
Tehran, Iran; Tose'e Tower, Corner of 15th St., Ahmad Qasir Ave.,
Argentine Square, Tehran, Iran; No. 129, 21's Khaled Eslamboli, No. 1
Building, Tehran, Iran; C.R. No. 86936 (Iran); all branches worldwide
[NPWMD].
2. EDBI STOCK BROKERAGE COMPANY, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].
3. EDBI EXCHANGE COMPANY, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD].
4. BANCO INTERNACIONAL DE DESARROLLO, C.A., Urb. El Rosal, Avenida
Francisco de Miranda, Edificio Dozsa, Piso 8, Caracas, C.P. 1060,
Venezuela; RIF J294640109 (Venezuela); SWIFT/BIC IDUNVECA;
[NPWMD].
Dated: October 22, 2008.
Barbara Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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