[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34397-34398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16427]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons 
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 four individuals and three 
entities 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 
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the entities and 
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 June 26, 2009.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2420.

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) 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) (``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 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 behalf of, persons designated 
pursuant to the Order.
    On June 26, 2009, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List 
the three entities and four individuals listed below, whose property 
and interests in property were blocked pursuant to the Order.
    The listing of the unblocked entities and individuals follows:

Administracion De Recursos Financieros E.U. (a.k.a. AFIN E.U.), 
Calle 20N No. 6AN-19 ofc. 67-68, Cali, Colombia; NIT  
805013294-5 (Colombia) [SDNT]
Asesorias Ocupacionales LTDA., Carrera 66 No. 11-129, Cali, 
Colombia; NIT  800040728-6 (Colombia) [SDNT]
Promotores De Bienes Raices S.A. (a.k.a. Promobienes S.A.), Calle 
20N No. 6AN-19 ofc. 67, Cali, Colombia; NIT  805001651-1 
(Colombia) [SDNT]
Ramirez Rivera, Gustavo, c/o Unidad Cardiovascular LTDA., Cali, 
Colombia; Avenida 4 Oeste No. 6-103, Cali, Colombia; Calle 25 N No. 
5BN-16, Cali, Colombia; DOB 05 Apr 1968; POB Medellin, Colombia; 
Cedula No. 16281514 (Colombia); Passport AJ077853 (Colombia) 
(individual) [SDNT]
Valero Jimenez, Alejandro, c/o Unidad Cardiovascular LTDA., Cali, 
Colombia; Transversal 18 No. 102-42 apto. 401, Bogota, Colombia; 826 
SW Canary Terrace, Port St. Lucie, FL 34953; c/o Administracion De 
Recursos Financieros E.U., Cali, Colombia; c/o Promotores De Bienes 
Raices S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 25 Oct 1967; POB Cali, Colombia; 
Cedula No. 16746340 (Colombia); Passport P059298 (Colombia) 
(individual) [SDNT]
Valero Sanchez, Francisco Javier, c/o Asesorias Ocupacionales LTDA., 
Cali, Colombia; c/o Unidad Cardiovascular LTDA., Cali, Colombia; c/o 
Promotores De Bienes Raices S.A., Cali, Colombia; Cedula No. 2436976 
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
Zuluaga Alzate, Diana Patricia, c/o Orlando Sabogal Zuluaga E Hijos 
& CIA S EN C, Ansermanuevo, Valle, Colombia; Avenida 17A No. 19-27, 
Barrio San Jose, Cucuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia; Carrera 3 No. 
11-99, Cartago, Valle, Colombia; Paseo 5 de Julio, Barrio Libertad, 
San Antonio, Tachira, Venezuela; Calle 14 No. 30-153, Medellin, 
Antioquia, Colombia; Calle 30 No. 3B-45, La Campina, Pereira, 
Risaralda, Colombia; citizen Colombia; nationality Colombia; Cedula 
No. 25246532 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

    Dated: June 26, 2009.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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