[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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