[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43658-43659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18185]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of Twenty-Nine (29) 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 twenty-nine (29) 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 twenty-nine (29) 
individuals identified in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 
13573, is effective on July 18, 2012.

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: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (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.

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    On July 18, 2012, 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, twenty-nine (29) 
individuals whose property and interests in property are blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13573.
    The listings for those individuals on OFAC's list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons appear as follows:

Individuals

1. AHMAD AL-ABDULLAH, Subhi; DOB 1951; POB Idleb, Sryia; Minister of 
Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (individual) [SYRIA].
2. AL-WAZZ, Hazwan; DOB 1962; POB Damascus, Syria; Minister of 
Education (individual) [SYRIA].
3. IBRAHIM SAID, Mahmoud; DOB 1953; POB Lattakia, Syria; Minister of 
Transport (individual) [SYRIA].
4. SHUKRI KURDI, Fuad; DOB 1953; POB Aleppo, Syria; Minister of 
Industry (individual) [SYRIA].
5. YEHYA MOALLA, Mohammad; DOB 1951; POB Lattakia, Syria; Minister of 
Higher Education (individual) [SYRIA].
6. ZAFER MIHBEK, Mohammad; DOB 1945; POB Aleppo, Syria; Minister of 
Economy and Foreign Trade (individual) [SYRIA].
7. AL-JLEILATI, MOHAMMAD (a.k.a. AL-JILILATI, MOHAMMAD); DOB 1945; POB 
Damascus, Syria; Minister of Finance (individual) [SYRIA].
8. AHED AL-ZOUBI, Omran; DOB 1959; POB Damascus, Syria; Minister of 
Information (individual) [SYRIA].
9. AL-ASSAF, Safwan; DOB 1959; POB Hama, Syria; Minister of Housing and 
Urban Development (individual) [SYRIA].
10. AL-SIBAEI, Yasser; DOB 1951; POB Homs, Syria; Minister of Public 
Works (individual) [SYRIA].
11. FARAH SARKIS, Nazira; DOB 1962; POB Aleppo, Syria; Minister of 
State for Environment Affairs (individual) [SYRIA].
12. HAIDAR, Ali; DOB 1962; POB Hama, Syria; Minister of State for 
National Reconciliation Affairs (individual) [SYRIA].
13. MOHAMMAD ZAKARYA, Jassim; DOB 1968; POB Hasaka, Syria; Minister of 
Social Affairs and Labor (individual) [SYRIA].
14. MSHAWEH, Lubanah; DOB 1955; POB Damascus, Syria; Minister of 
Culture (individual) [SYRIA].
15. MU'ZI HNEIDI, Said; DOB 1954; POB Damascus, Syria; Minister of Oil 
and Mineral Resources (individual) [SYRIA].
16. AL-NASSER, Hala Mohammad; DOB 1964; POB Raqqa, Syria; Minister of 
Tourism (individual) [SYRIA].
17. AL-SAYYED, Mohammad Abdul-Sattar; DOB 1958; POB Tartus, Syria; 
Minister of Religious Endowments (individual) [SYRIA].
18. HABIB, Radwan; DOB 1962; POB Aleppo, Syria; Minister of Justice 
(individual) [SYRIA].
19. HANNA, Bassam; DOB 1954; POB Aleppo, Syria; Minister of Water 
Resources (individual) [SYRIA].
20. HIJAB, Riyad (a.k.a. HIJAB, Riyad Farid), Syria; DOB 1966; POB Deir 
Ezzor, Syria; Prime Minister (individual) [SYRIA].
21. JAMIL, Qadri (a.k.a. JAMIL, Kadri); DOB 1952; POB Damascus, Syria; 
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs; Minister of Internal Trade 
and Consumer Protection (individual) [SYRIA].
22. AL-HALQI, Wael Nader; DOB 1964; POB Daraa, Syria; Minister of 
Health (individual) [SYRIA].
23. AZZAM, Mansour Fadlallah; DOB 1960; POB Sweida, Syria; Minister of 
Presidential Affairs (individual) [SYRIA].
24. FARZAT, Hussein Mahmoud; DOB 1957; POB Hama, Syria; Minister of 
State (individual) [SYRIA].
25. GHALAWANJI, Omar Ibrahim; DOB 1954; POB Tartous, Syria; Deputy 
Prime Minister for Services Affairs; Minister of Local Administration 
(individual) [SYRIA].
26. KHAMIS, Imad Mohammad Deeb; DOB 01 Aug 1961; POB near Damascus, 
Syria; Minister of Electricity (individual) [SYRIA].
27. SABOUNI, Imad Abdul-Ghani (a.k.a. SABOUNI, Emad Abdul-Ghani); DOB 
1964; POB Damascus, Syria; Minister of Communications and Technology 
(individual) [SYRIA].
28. SWEID, Joseph Jurji (a.k.a. SUWAID, Joseph); DOB 1958; POB 
Damascus, Syria; Minister of State (individual) [SYRIA].
29. MAYALEH, Adib (a.k.a. MAYALA, Adib); DOB 1955; POB Daraa, Syria; 
Governor of Central Bank of Syria (individual) [SYRIA].

    Dated: July 18, 2012.
Adam Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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