[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 195 (Friday, October 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52296-52297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24374]


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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 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 
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the 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 2, 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) 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

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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 October 2, 2009, OFAC removed from the SDN List the three 
individuals listed below, whose property and interests in property were 
blocked pursuant to the Order:
    MALDONADO ESCOBAR, Mauricio, c/o MAYOR COMERCIALIZADORA LTDA., 
Bogota, Colombia; c/o MOR GAVIRIA Y CIA. S.C.S., Bogota, Colombia; c/o 
AUDITORES ESPECIALIZADOS LTDA., Bogota, Colombia; DOB 22 Oct 1962; POB 
Colombia; Cedula No. 79266443 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
    MONTES OCAMPO, Jose Alberto, Carrera 4 No. 12-20 of. 206, Cartago, 
Valle, Colombia; c/o AGRICOLA DOIMA DEL NORTE DEL VALLE LTDA., Cartago, 
Valle, Colombia; c/o GANADERIA EL VERGEL LTDA., Cartago, Valle, 
Colombia; c/o GANADERIAS BILBAO LTDA., Cartago, Valle, Colombia; DOB 24 
Feb 1965; Cedula No. 79339330 (Colombia); Passport 79339330 (Colombia) 
(individual) [SDNT].
    ZAMORA RUIZ, Alexander, c/o INPESCA S.A., Buenaventura, Colombia; 
Cedula No. 16498805 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].

    Dated: October 2, 2009.
Barbara Hammerle,
Deputy Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E9-24374 Filed 10-8-09; 8:45 am]
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