[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20293-20294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08642]


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 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation 
Act, and Unblocking of One Individual Blocked Pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382 of June 28, 2005

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 entities and two 
individuals 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). OFAC is also removing the name of 
one individual whose property and interest in property were blocked 
pursuant to Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, ``Blocking Property 
of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters'' 
from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons 
(SDN List).

DATES: The designation by the Acting Director of OFAC of the two 
entities and two individuals identified in this notice pursuant to 
section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act is effective as of April 8, 2015. The 
removal of the individual from the SDN List is effective as of April 3, 
2015.

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 April 8, 2015, the Acting Director of OFAC designated the 
following entities and individuals whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act.

Entities

    1. CARTEL DE JALISCO NUEVA GENERACION (a.k.a. CJNG; a.k.a. NEW 
GENERATION CARTEL OF JALISCO), Mexico [SDNTK].
    2. LOS CUINIS (a.k.a. LOS CUINIS DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION; 
a.k.a. LOS QUINIS), Mexico [SDNTK].

Individuals

    1. GONZALEZ VALENCIA, Abigael (a.k.a. GOMEZ FLORES, Luis Angel; 
a.k.a. GONZALEZ VALENCIA, Abigail; a.k.a. GONZALEZ VALENCIA, Luis 
Angel; a.k.a. TAK TOLEDO, Jonathan Paul; a.k.a. TAK TOLEDO, Paul 
Jonathan); DOB 18 Oct 1972; alt. DOB 28 Oct 1979; POB Aguililla, 
Michoacan, Mexico; alt. POB Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; alt. POB 
Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico; Gender Male; Passport JX755855 
(Canada); C.U.R.P. GOVA721018HMNNLB07 (Mexico); alt. C.U.R.P. 
GOFL721018HJCMLS02 (Mexico); alt. C.U.R.P. GOVL721018HMNNLS08 
(Mexico) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LOS CUINIS).
    2. OSEGUERA CERVANTES, Nemesio (a.k.a. OSEGUERA CERVANTES, 
Ruben; a.k.a. ``Mencho''); DOB 17 Jul 1966; alt. DOB 17 Jul 1964; 
POB Naranjo de Chila, Aguililla, Michoacan, Mexico (individual) 
[SDNTK] (Linked To: CARTEL DE JALISCO NUEVA GENERACION).

    The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
has determined that the following individual is no longer blocked 
pursuant to E.O. 13382 and the name has been removed from the SDN List:

Individual

    TAHIR, Buhary Seyed Abu; DOB 17 Apr 1959; POB Chennai, India; 
nationality Sri Lanka; Additional Sanctions Information--Subject to 
Secondary Sanctions; Passport M2068357 (Sri Lanka) issued 04 Sep 
2001 expires Sep 2006; alt. Passport M1754102 (Sri Lanka) issued 16 
Mar 1999 expires 16 Mar 2004 (individual) [NPWMD] [IFSR].

    The unblocking of this individual is effective as of April, 3 2015. 
All property and interests in property of the individual that are in or 
hereafter come within the United States or the possession or control of 
United States persons are now unblocked.

    Dated: April 8, 2015.
John E. Smith,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-08642 Filed 4-14-15; 8:45 am]
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