[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64010-64011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25591]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Office of Foreign Assets Control Unblocking of Specially 
Designated Narcotics Traffickers 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 name of three 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 
Narcotics Traffickers of three 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 October 22, 
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 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

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behalf of, persons designated pursuant to the Order.
    On October 22, 2008, the Acting Director of OFAC removed from the 
list of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers three individuals 
listed below, whose property and interests in property were blocked 
pursuant to the Order:
    1. ALMANZA CANON, Nohora Juliana, c/o COSMEPOP, Bogota, Colombia; 
DOB 6 Dec 1972; Cedula No. 52557912 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
    2. GIL OSORIO, Alfonso, c/o LABORATORIOS KRESSFOR DE COLOMBIA S.A., 
Bogota, Colombia; c/o DISTRIBUIDORA MIGIL LTDA., Cali, Colombia; c/o 
BLANCO PHARMA S.A., Bogota, Colombia; c/o LABORATORIOS BLAIMAR DE 
COLOMBIA S.A., Bogota, Colombia; c/o FARMATODO S.A., Bogota, Colombia; 
c/o SERVICIOS SOCIALES LTDA., Barranquilla, Colombia; c/o DISTRIBUIDORA 
DE DROGAS CONDOR LTDA., Bogota, Colombia; c/o DEPOSITO POPULAR DE 
DROGAS S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o DISTRIBUIDORA DE DROGAS LA REBAJA 
S.A., Bogota, Colombia; c/o D'CACHE S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 17 Dec 
46; alt. DOB 17 Dec 40; Cedula No. 14949279 (Colombia); Passport 
14949229 (Colombia); alt. Passport 14949279 (Colombia); alt. Passport 
14949289 (Colombia); alt. Passport AC342060 (Colombia) (individual) 
[SDNT]
    3. HERRERA TOBON, Maria Cecilia, c/o LABORATORIOS GENERICOS 
VETERINARIOS, Bogota, Colombia; DOB 25 Nov 1957; Cedula No. 31397821 
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

    Dated: October 22, 2008.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
 [FR Doc. E8-25591 Filed 10-27-08; 8:45 am]
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