[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62946-62947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-24692]


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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 U.S. Department of the Treasury 's Office of Foreign 
Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of two individuals 
and one entity whose property and interests in property have 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 two individuals 
and one entity identified in this notice pursuant to section 805(b) of 
the Kingpin Act is effective on September 30, 2013.

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

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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 September 30, 2013, the Director of OFAC designated the 
following two individuals and one entity whose property and interests 
in property are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act.

Individuals

1. PADRO PASTOR, Alvaro; DOB 09 Nov 1975; nationality Spain; R.F.C. 
PAPA751109870 (Mexico); C.U.R.P. PAPA751109HNEDSL04 (Mexico) 
(individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: CASA V; Linked To: PISCILANEA, S.A. DE 
C.V.).
2. VALLARTA ESCALANTE, Luis Francisco, Calle Chilam Balam No. 279, 
Supermanzana 50, Manzana 14, Lote 17, Residencial San Angel, Cancun, 
Quintana Roo, Mexico; DOB 24 Nov 1979; POB Torreon, Coahuila de 
Zaragoza, Mexico; R.F.C. VAEL791124NXA (Mexico); C.U.R.P. 
VAEL791124HCLLSS07 (Mexico) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: GRUPO 
IMPERGOZA, S.A. DE C.V.; Linked To: SOCIALIKA RENTAS Y CATERING, S.A. 
DE C.V.).

Entity

1. CASA V, Av. Vallarta 1339, Colonia Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 
Mexico [SDNTK].

    Dated: September 30, 2013.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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