[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7546-7547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-3319]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Unblocking of Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker 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 an individual 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 OFAC's list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the ``SDN list'') of the 
individual identified in this notice whose property and interests in 
property were blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 
1995, is effective on February 10, 2009.

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)

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(``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 the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Attorney General and the 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 February 10, 2009, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN 
list the individual listed below, whose property and interests in 
property were blocked pursuant to the Order.
    The listing of the unblocked individual follows: LUGO VILLAFANE, 
Jesus Alberto, c/o INVERSIONES Y CONSTRUCCIONES VALLE S.A., Cali, 
Colombia; Calle 70N No. 14-31, Cali, Colombia; c/o CONCRETOS CALI S.A., 
Cali, Colombia; c/o INVHERESA S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 24 Jun 1951; 
Cedula No. 14977685 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

    Dated: February 10, 2009.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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