[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 65 (Thursday, April 4, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20390-20391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07853]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Unblocking of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons 
Pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act

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 one individual and one 
entity whose property and interests in property have been unblocked 
pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (``Kingpin 
Act'') (21 U.S.C. Sections 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. 1182).

DATES: The unblocking and removal from the list of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') of the one individual and 
one entity identified in this notice whose property and interests in 
property were blocked pursuant to the Kingpin Act, is effective on 
March 28, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Sanctions 
Compliance & Evaluation, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign 
Assets Control, Washington, DC 20220, Tel: (202) 622-2420.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site at www.treasury.gov/ofac or via 
facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand service at (202) 622-0077.

Background

    On December 3, 1999, the Kingpin Act was signed into law by the 
President of the United States. The Kingpin Act provides a statutory 
framework for the President to impose 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 to the benefits of trade and 
transactions involving U.S. persons and entities.

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    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 consults 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 when designating and 
blocking the property or interests in property, subject to U.S. 
jurisdiction, of persons or entities 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; and/or (3) 
playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking.
    On March 28, 2013, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN List 
the one individual and one entity listed below, whose property and 
interests in property were blocked pursuant to the Kingpin Act:

Individual

    CASTRO, Jesus Maria, c/o NEGOCIOS INTERNACIONALES DEL ECUADOR 
NIDEGROUP S.A., Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador; c/o SNACK PARTY, Quito, 
Pichincha, Ecuador; DOB 20 Nov 1967; alt. DOB 28 Nov 1967; alt. DOB 11 
Nov 1967; POB Dolores, Uruguay; Cedula No. 172101469-2 (Ecuador); 
Passport B716164 (Uruguay); alt. Passport C144880 (Uruguay); alt. 
Passport 02952296-8 (Uruguay) (individual) [SDNTK].

Entity

    SNACK PARTY, Los Vinedos 19 y Venezuela, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador; 
RUC  1721014692001 (Ecuador) [SDNTK].

    Dated: March 28, 2013.
Barbara C. Hammerle,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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