[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 140 (Thursday, July 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42833-42834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17721]


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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 Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets 
Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of four 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 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 July 15, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach and Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 
Department of

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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 at (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 July 15, 2010 the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List the 
four individuals listed below, whose property and interests in property 
were blocked pursuant to the Order:

1. DELGADO GUTIERREZ, Luis Alvaro, c/o TAURA S.A., Cali, Colombia; 
Cedula No. 16718474 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
2. IDARRAGA ESCANDON, Herned (a.k.a. IDARRAGA ESCANDON, Hernet), c/o 
DISMERCOOP, Cali, Colombia; c/o GRACADAL S.A., Cali, Colombia; Carrera 
25A No. 49-73, Cali, Colombia; DOB 22 Dec 1954; Cedula No. 16595668 
(Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
3. PALMA SAADE, Jessica Maria, Calle 78 No. 53-70, Local 202, 
Barranquilla, Colombia; c/o VESTIMENTA J y J S. de H., Barranquilla, 
Colombia; Cedula No. 32758645 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]
4. SALGADO MOSQUERA, Ricardo Ignacio, c/o MACROFARMA S.A., Pereira, 
Colombia; c/o FARMALIDER S.A., Cali, Colombia; Cedula No. 10216576 
(Colombia); Passport 10216576 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]

    Dated: July 15, 2010.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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