[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 221 (Tuesday, November 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71918-71919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29263]


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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 two 
entities 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 Acting Director of OFAC of the two 
individuals and two entities identified in this notice pursuant to 
section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act is effective on November 10, 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

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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 November 10, 2015, the Acting Director of OFAC designated the 
following two individuals and two entities whose property and interests 
in property are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act.

Individuals

    1. FEO ALVARADO, Alveiro (a.k.a. ``BENAVIDES''), Colombia; DOB 
16 Jun 1967; POB El Paso, Cesar, Colombia; citizen Colombia; Cedula 
No. 77162067 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LOS 
URABENOS). Designated for materially assisting in, or providing 
support for or to, or providing goods or services in support of, the 
international narcotics trafficking activities of LOS URABENOS; and/
or being controlled, directed by and/or acting for or on behalf of 
LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory criteria for 
designation as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker (SDNT) 
pursuant to sections 805(b)(2) and/or (3) of the Kingpin Act.
    2. MOSQUERA PEREZ, Victor Alfonso (a.k.a. ``NEGRO MOSQUERA''), 
Colombia; DOB 14 Sep 1984; POB Turbo, Antioquia, Colombia; citizen 
Colombia; Cedula No. 8358401 (individual) [SDNTK] (Linked To: LOS 
URABENOS). Designated for materially assisting in, or providing 
support for or to, or providing goods or services in support of, the 
international narcotics trafficking activities of LOS URABENOS; and/
or being controlled, directed by, and/or acting for or on behalf of 
LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory criteria for 
designation as an SDNT pursuant to sections 805(b)(2) and/or (3) of 
the Kingpin Act.

Entities

    1. DE EXPOMINERIA S.A.S. (a.k.a. DE EXPOMINERIA S.A.), Calle 40, 
81 a 15, Medellin, Colombia; NIT # 900328871-2 (Colombia) [SDNTK]. 
Designated for being owned, controlled, directed by, and/or acting 
for or on behalf of LOS URABENOS, and therefore meets the statutory 
criteria for designation as an SDNT pursuant to section 805(b)(3) of 
the Kingpin Act.
    2. JOYERIA MVK, Calle 100 # 10-29, Turbo, Antioquia, Colombia; 
NIT # 8358401-7 (Colombia) [SDNTK]. Designated for being owned, 
controlled, directed by, and/or acting for or on behalf of LOS 
URABENOS and therefore meets the statutory criteria for designation 
as an SDNT pursuant to section 805(b)(3) of the Kingpin Act.

     Dated: November 10, 2015.
Andrea Gacki,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-29263 Filed 11-16-15; 8:45 am]
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