[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 5, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 52370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14595]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designation of Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 
12978

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 six newly-designated persons 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, ``Blocking Assets and 
Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers.'' In 
addition, OFAC is publishing a change to the listing of a person 
previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 12978.

DATES: The designation by the Secretary of the Treasury of the six 
persons identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 12978 is 
effective on August 29, 2006. In addition, the change to the listing of 
a person previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 12978 is 
also effective on August 29, 2006.

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 October 21, 1995, the President, invoking the authority, 
personality 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''), effective at 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time on October 22, 1995. 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, to play a significant role in 
international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia; or (3) 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 this order; and (4) 
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 this Order.
    On August 29, 2006, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Attorney General and Secretary of State, as well as the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, designated six persons whose property 
and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.

The List of Additional Designees Follows

    1. DISDROGAS LTDA. (f.k.a. RAMIREZ Y CIA. LTDA.); Carrera 38 No. 
13-138 Acopi, Yumbo, Valle, Colombia; Calle 15 No. 11-34, Pasto, 
Narino, Colombia; Carrera 1D Bis. No. 15-55, Neiva, Huila, Colombia; 
Calle 39 No. 17-42, Neiva, Huila, Colombia; Apartado Aereo 30530, Cali, 
Colombia; NIT  800058576-2 (Colombia); (ENTITY) [SDNT]
    2. RAMIREZ ABADIA Y CIA. S.C.S., Avenida Estacion No. 5BN-73 of. 
207, Cali, Colombia; NIT  800117676-4 (Colombia); (ENTITY) 
[SDNT]
    3. ABADIA BASTIDAS, Carmen Alicia (a.k.a. ABADIA DE RAMIREZ, Carmen 
Alicia); c/o DISDROGAS LTDA., Yumbo, Valle, Colombia; c/o RAMIREZ 
ABADIA Y CIA. S.C.S., Cali, Colombia; Calle 9 No. 39-65, Cali, 
Colombia; DOB 15 Jul 1934; POB Palmira, Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 
29021074 (Colombia); (INDIVIDUAL) [SDNT]
    4. OTALORA RESTREPO, Edgar Marino, c/o DISDROGAS LTDA., Yumbo, 
Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 5198602 (Colombia); (INDIVIDUAL) [SDNT]
    5. RAMIREZ PONCE, Omar, c/o DISDROGAS LTDA., Yumbo, Valle, 
Colombia; c/o RAMIREZ ABADIA Y CIA. S.C.S., Cali, Colombia; Carrera 38 
No. 13-138, Cali, Colombia; DOB 01 Jan 1940; POB Cali, Colombia; Cedula 
No. 6064636 (Colombia); Passport 6064636 (Colombia); (INDIVIDUAL) 
[SDNT]
    6. SALINAS CUEVAS, Jorge Rodrigo, c/o DISDROGAS LTDA., Yumbo, 
Valle, Colombia; Calle 13B No. 37-86 apt. 201-5, Cali, Colombia; DOB 10 
Dec 1945; POB Neiva, Huila, Colombia; Alt. POB Cali, Colombia; Cedula 
No. 14930332 (Colombia); Passport AG684621 (Colombia); (INDIVIDUAL) 
[SDNT]
    In addition, OFAC has made a change to the following listing of a 
person previously designated pursuant to the Order:
    RAMIREZ ABADIA, Juan Carlos, Calle 6A No. 34-65, Cali, Colombia; 
DOB 16 Feb 63; Cedula No. 16684736 (Colombia); Passport AD127327 
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

The listing now appears as the following

    RAMIREZ ABADIA, Juan Carlos, Calle 6A No. 34-65, Cali, Colombia; c/
o DISDROGAS LTDA., Yumbo, Valle, Colombia; c/o RAMIREZ ABADIA Y CIA. 
S.C.S., Cali, Colombia; DOB 16 Feb 63; Cedula No. 16684736 (Colombia); 
Passport AD127327 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

    Dated: August 29, 2006.
Adam J. Szubin,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E6-14595 Filed 9-1-06; 8:45 am]
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