[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55167-55168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-22687]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Three Individuals Pursuant to Executive Order 
13573 of May 18, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the 
Government of Syria''

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 are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13573 
of May 18, 2011, ``Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the 
Government of Syria.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the three individuals 
identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13573, is 
effective on August 30, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., (Treasury Annex), 
Washington, DC 20220, Tel.: 202/622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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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 May 18, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13573, 
``Blocking Property of Senior Officials of the Government of Syria,'' 
(the ``Order'') pursuant to, inter alia, the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-06). In the Order, the President 
took additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared 
in Executive Order 13338 of May 11, 2004, which was expanded in scope 
in Executive Order 13572 of April 29, 2011.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, that 
come within the United States, or that are or come within the 
possession or control of any United States person, of persons listed in 
the Annex to the Order and of persons determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: (1) To be a 
senior official of the Government of Syria; (2) to be an agency or 
instrumentality of the Government of Syria, or owned or controlled, 
directly or indirectly, by the Government of Syria or by an official or 
officials of the Government of Syria; (3) to have materially assisted, 
sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support 
for, or goods or services in support of, any person whose property an 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or (4) to be 
owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on 
behalf of directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interest are blocked pursuant to this order.
    On August 30, 2011, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Department of State, designated, pursuant to one or more of the 
criteria set forth in subsection 1(b) of the Order, three of 
individuals whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13573.
    The listings for these individuals on OFAC's list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons appear as follows:

Individuals

    1. AL-MOALLEM, Walid (a.k.a. MUALLEM, Walid; a.k.a. AL-MOUALEM, 
Walid; a.k.a. AL-MUALEM, Walid; a.k.a. AL-MUALLEM, Walid; a.k.a. MUHI 
EDDINE MOALLEM, Walid; a.k.a. MOALLEM, Walid; a.k.a. AL-MOUALLEM, 
Walid), DOB 1941; POB Damascus, Syria; Foreign and Expatriates 
Minister; Minister for Foreign Affairs (INDIVIDUAL) [Syria].
    2. SHAABAN, Bouthaina (a.k.a. SHAABAN, Buthaina), Rawda Sq., 
Damascus, Syria; DOB 1953; POB Homs, Syria; Presidential Political and 
Media Advisor; Minister, Political and Media Advisor at the Presidency; 
Doctor (INDIVIDUAL) [Syria].
    3. KARIM ALI, Ali Abdul (a.k.a. ABD-AL-KARIM ALI, Ali; a.k.a. ABD-
AL-KARIM, Ali; a.k.a. ABDULKARIM ALI, Ali; a.k.a. ABDULKARIM, Ali; 
a.k.a. KARIM ALI, Ali Abdel; a.k.a. KARIM, Ali Abdul), DOB 1953; POB 
Latakia Governorate, Syria; Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon (INDIVIDUAL) 
[Syria].

    Dated: August 30, 2011.
Adam Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2011-22687 Filed 9-2-11; 8:45 am]
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