[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 173 (Friday, September 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51883-51884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-20573]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designation of Individuals and 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 eight newly-designated 
individuals and entities 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.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the eight individuals 
and entities identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 
12978 is effective on August 28, 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/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, inter 
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706), issued Executive Order 12978 (60 Fed. Reg. 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

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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 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 August 28, 2008, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Attorney General and Secretary of State, as well as the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, designated eight individuals and entities whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    The list of additional designees is as follows:
    1. ALMACEN Y COMPRAVENTA LOS 3 OROS, Carrera 7 No. 11-60, Cartago, 
Valle, Colombia; NIT  16219873-3 (Colombia) [SDNT].
    2. GANADERIA ARIZONA, Carrera 43A No. 1 Sur-188 of. 903, Medellin, 
Colombia; Hacienda Arizona, Caucasia, Antioquia, Colombia; NIT 
 10026001-7 (Colombia) [SDNT].
    3. GRANJA PORCICOLA LA FORTALEZA, Carrera 22 No. 8-71, Cartago, 
Valle, Colombia; Vda. La Hondura, Cartago, Valle, Colombia; NIT 
 31423447-7 (Colombia) [SDNT].
    4. MOTEL MOMENTOS E.U., Carrera 22 No. 8-71, Cartago, Valle, 
Colombia; NIT  900089381-9 (Colombia) [SDNT].
    5. RESTREPO ENCIZO, Luz Piedad, c/o GRANJA PORCICOLA LA FORTALEZA, 
Cartago, Valle, Colombia; c/o MOTEL MOMENTOS E.U., Cartago, Valle, 
Colombia; Calle 17 Bis. 2N-74, Cartago, Valle, Colombia; DOB 27 Dec 
1975; POB Sevilla, Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 31423447 (Colombia); 
Passport AH411251 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
    6. SANCHEZ JIMENEZ, Jesus Maria Alejandro (a.k.a. ``CHUCHO''; 
a.k.a. ``EL PRIMO''; a.k.a. ``SCUBI''; a.k.a. ``SCUBY''), c/o GANADERIA 
ARIZONA, Medellin, Colombia; Calle 11 No. 23-80, Pereira, Colombia; 
Hacienda Arizona, Caucasia, Antioquia, Colombia; DOB 06 Nov 1975; POB 
Pereira, Colombia; Cedula No. 10026001 (Colombia); Passport AF400955 
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
    7. SANCHEZ RUA, Rafael Angel, c/o ALMACEN Y COMPRAVENTA LOS 3 OROS, 
Cartago, Valle, Colombia; c/o GRANJA PORCICOLA LA FORTALEZA, Cartago, 
Valle, Colombia; c/o MOTEL MOMENTOS E.U., Cartago, Valle, Colombia; 
Calle 17 Bis. No. 2N-74, Cartago, Valle, Colombia; Finca El Encanto, 
Anserma, Colombia; Finca La Fortaleza, Anserma, Colombia; Finca La 
Perlita, Anserma, Colombia; Finca La Quichita, Anserma, Colombia; Finca 
Quiebra de Italia, Anserma, Colombia; DOB 22 Aug 1966; POB 
Ansermanuevo, Valle, Colombia; Cedula No. 16219873 (Colombia); Passport 
AF866705 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
    8. VIEDMA ABONCE, Marisol, c/o ALMACEN Y COMPRAVENTA LOS 3 OROS, 
Cartago, Valle, Colombia; c/o MOTEL MOMENTOS E.U., Cartago, Valle, 
Colombia; Calle 10B No. 14A-90 Manz. C Casa 14, Cartago, Valle, 
Colombia; DOB 30 Mar 1970; Cedula No. 31415437 (Colombia) (individual) 
[SDNT].

    Dated: August 28, 2008.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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