[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37880-37881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-15826]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Blocking of Specially Designated National Pursuant to Executive
Order 13413
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 name of one individual whose property and
interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order
13413 of October 27, 2006, ``Blocking Property of Certain Persons
Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo''.
DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one individual
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13413 of October
27, 2006, is effective on June 24, 2010.
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/ofac) via
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand service, tel.: (202) 622-
0077.
Background
On October 27, 2006, the President signed Executive Order 13413
(the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), section 5 of the
United Nations Participation Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA),
and section 301 of title 3, United States Code. In the Order, the
President found that the situation in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo constitutes and unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign
policy of the United States. The President identified seven individuals
as subject to the economic sanctions in the Annex to the Order.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all
property and interests in property that are in, or thereafter come
within, the United States, or within the possession or control of
United States persons, of the persons listed in the Annex, as well as
those persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, after
consultation with the Secretary of State, to meet any of the criteria
set forth in subparagraphs (a)(ii)(A)--(a)(ii)(G) of Section 1.
On June 24, 2010, the Director of OFAC exercised the Secretary of
the Treasury's authority to designate, pursuant to one or more of the
criteria set forth in Section 1 of the Order, the individual listed
below.
The listing of the blocked individual as follows:
KAKWAVU BUKANDE, Jerome (a.k.a. KAKAWAVU BAKONDE, Jerome; a.k.a.
GAKWAVU BOKANDE, Jerome; a.k.a. GAGAKWAVU, Jerome); Kinshasa, Aru,
Congo, Democratic Republic of the; DOB 1964; POB Masisi, Nord-Kivu,
DRC; nationality Congo, Democratic Republic of the (individual)
[DRCONGO]
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Dated: June 24, 2010.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2010-15826 Filed 6-29-10; 8:45 am]
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