[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14592-14593]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5833]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation 
Act

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 one individual and two entities 
whose property and interests in property have

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been blocked pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act 
(``Kingpin Act'') (21 U.S.C. 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. 1182).

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the one individual 
and two entities identified in this notice pursuant to section 
805(b)(2) and (3) of the Kingpin Act is effective on March 6, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions 
Compliance & Evaluation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. 
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 on OFAC's Web site at http://www.treasury.gov/ofac or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service at (202) 622-0077.

Background

    The Kingpin Act became law on December 3, 1999. The Kingpin Act 
establishes a program targeting the activities of significant foreign 
narcotics traffickers and their organizations on a worldwide basis. It 
provides a statutory framework for the imposition of sanctions against 
significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations on a 
worldwide basis, with the objective of denying their businesses and 
agents access to the U.S. financial system and the benefits of trade 
and transactions involving U.S. companies and individuals.
    The Kingpin Act blocks all property and interests in property, 
subject to U.S. jurisdiction, owned or controlled by significant 
foreign narcotics traffickers as identified by the President. In 
addition, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Attorney General, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of 
the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security may 
designate and block the property and interests in property, subject to 
U.S. jurisdiction, of persons who are found to be: (1) Materially 
assisting in, or providing financial or technological support for or 
to, or providing goods or services in support of, the international 
narcotics trafficking activities of a person designated pursuant to the 
Kingpin Act; (2) owned, controlled, or directed by, or acting for or on 
behalf of, a person designated pursuant to the Kingpin Act; or (3) 
playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking.
    On March 6, 2012, the Director of OFAC designated the following 
individual and two entities whose property and interests in property 
are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act.

Individual

    1. ZAMBADA GARCIA, Jesus Reynaldo (a.k.a. ``EL REY ZAMBADA''), DOB 
13 Aug 1961; POB Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico; citizen Mexico; nationality 
Mexico; C.U.R.P. ZAGJ610813HSLMRS05 (Mexico) (individual) [SDNTK]

Entities

    2. ZARKA DE MEXICO S.A. DE C.V., Miguel Hidalgo No. 348 Pte., 
Colonia Centro, Donato Guerra y Carrasco, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico; 
Folio Mercantil No. 73894-1 (Mexico); R.F.C. ZME-040520-VD7 (Mexico) 
[SDNTK]
    3. ZARKA DE OCCIDENTE S.A. DE C.V., Calle Jose Diego Valadez Rios 
No. 1676, Colonia Proyecto Urbano Tres Rios, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico; 
Folio Mercantil No. 72191-1 (Mexico) [SDNTK]

    Dated: March 6, 2012.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2012-5833 Filed 3-9-12; 8:45 am]
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