[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 140 (Thursday, July 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42833-42834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17721]
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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 four 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 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 July 15, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach and Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control,
Department of
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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) 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 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 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 July 15, 2010 the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List the
four individuals listed below, whose property and interests in property
were blocked pursuant to the Order:
1. DELGADO GUTIERREZ, Luis Alvaro, c/o TAURA S.A., Cali, Colombia;
Cedula No. 16718474 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
2. IDARRAGA ESCANDON, Herned (a.k.a. IDARRAGA ESCANDON, Hernet), c/o
DISMERCOOP, Cali, Colombia; c/o GRACADAL S.A., Cali, Colombia; Carrera
25A No. 49-73, Cali, Colombia; DOB 22 Dec 1954; Cedula No. 16595668
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
3. PALMA SAADE, Jessica Maria, Calle 78 No. 53-70, Local 202,
Barranquilla, Colombia; c/o VESTIMENTA J y J S. de H., Barranquilla,
Colombia; Cedula No. 32758645 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
4. SALGADO MOSQUERA, Ricardo Ignacio, c/o MACROFARMA S.A., Pereira,
Colombia; c/o FARMALIDER S.A., Cali, Colombia; Cedula No. 10216576
(Colombia); Passport 10216576 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
Dated: July 15, 2010.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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