[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 81718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32605]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Foreign Assets Control Office
Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons
Pursuant to Executive Order 13288, as Amended by Executive Order 13391
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 ten individuals whose property
and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive
Order 13288 of March 6, 2003, ``Blocking Property of Persons
Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe,'' as
amended by Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005, ``Blocking
Property of Additional Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or
Institutions in Zimbabwe.''
DATES: The unblocking and removal from the list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the ten individuals
identified in this notice whose property and interests in property were
blocked pursuant to Executive 13288 of March 6, 2003, as amended by
Executive Order 13391 of November 22, 2005, is effective on December
21, 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) or via
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand service tel.: (202) 622-0077.
Background
On March 6, 2003, the President, invoking the authority of, inter
alia, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-
06) (``IEEPA'') issued Executive Order 13288 (68 FR 11457, March 10,
2003). In Executive Order 13288, the President declared a national
emergency to deal with the threat posed by the actions and policies of
certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons to
undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes or institutions, contributing
to the deliberate breakdown in the rule of law in Zimbabwe, to
politically motivated violence and intimidation in that country, and to
political and economic instability in the southern African region. The
Annex to Executive Order 13288 included 77 individuals, including nine
of the ten individuals identified in this notice, which resulted in the
blocking of all property and interests in property of these individuals
that was or thereafter came within the United States or the possession
or control of U.S. persons. Executive Order 13288 also authorized the
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State,
to designate additional persons determined to meet the criteria set
forth in Executive Order 13288.
On November 22, 2005, in order to take additional steps with
respect to the continued actions and policies of certain persons who
undermine Zimbabwe's democratic processes and with respect to the
national emergency described and declared in Executive Order 13288, the
President, invoking the authority of, inter alia, IEEPA, issued
Executive Order 13391 (70 FR 71201, November 25, 2005). Executive Order
13391 amends Executive Order 13288 and provides that the Annex to
Executive Order 13288 is replaced and superseded in its entirety by the
Annex to Executive Order 13391, containing the names of 128 individuals
and 33 entities, including the ten individuals identified in this
notice. Executive Order 13288, as amended by Executive Order 13391,
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, to block the property and interests in property of
additional categories of persons beyond the category set forth in
Executive Order 13288 prior to its amendment.
Executive Order 13288, as amended by Executive Order 13991, also
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, to determine that circumstances no longer warrant
the inclusion of a person in the Annex to Executive Order 13288, as
replaced and superseded by the Annex to Executive Order 13991, and to
unblock any property and interests in property that had been blocked as
a result of the person's inclusion in the Annex.
On December 21, 2010, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with
the State Department, determined that circumstances no longer warrant
the inclusion of the individuals listed below in the Annex to Executive
Order 13288, as replaced and superseded by the Annex to Executive Order
13391, and that the property and interests in property of the
individuals listed below are therefore no longer blocked pursuant to
section 1(a) of Executive Order 13288, as amended by Executive Order
13391, and accordingly removed them from the SDN List.
CHIKOWORE, Enos; DOB 17 July 1942; Former Central
Committee Member; Deceased (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
HOVE, Richard Chemist; DOB 23 Sep 1939; Passport ZD002376
(Zimbabwe); Politburo Secretary for Economic Affairs (individual)
[ZIMBABWE].
JOKONYA, Tichaona Joseph Benjamin, Samaita Mutasa Farm,
Beatrice, Zimbabwe; DOB 27 Dec 1938; Passport ZD002261 (Zimbabwe); alt.
Passport D001289 (Zimbabwe); alt. Passport AD000797 (Zimbabwe);
Minister of Information and Publicity (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
MANGWENDE, Witness; DOB 15 Aug 1946; Former Minister of
Transport and Communications; Deceased (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
MOMBESHORA, Swithun; DOB 20 Aug 1945; Former Minister of
Higher Education; Deceased (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
MSIKA, Joseph; DOB 6 Dec 1923; Passport ZD001610
(Zimbabwe); First Vice President (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
MUZENDA, Simon Vengesai; DOB 28 Oct 1922; Former Vice
President; Deceased (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
NKOMO, Stephen; DOB 3 Oct 1926; Former Politburo Senior
Committee Member; Deceased (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
RUSERE, Tinos, 12 Cooke Avenue, Southerton, Harare,
Zimbabwe; DOB 10 May 1945; Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining
Development (individual) [ZIMBABWE].
TUNGAMIRAI, Josiah; DOB 8 Oct 1948; Former Minister of
State for Indigenization and Empowerment; Deceased (individual)
[ZIMBABWE].
Dated: December 21, 2010.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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