[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74215-74216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30117]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Updating 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 updating the identifying information for one vessel 
that was previously identified as blocked property pursuant to the 
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) (21 U.S.C. 
Sections 1901-1908, 8 U.S.C. Section 1182).

DATES: The update to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and 
Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the vessel identified in this notice, is 
effective on November 12, 2015.

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.
    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 November 12, 2015, the Associate Director of the Office of 
Global Targeting updated the SDN listing of the vessel listed below 
pursuant to the Kingpin Act:

Vessel

1. CITY OF TOKYO (D5GK6) Liberia flag; Vessel Registration 
Identification IMO 8709145; MMSI 636016488 (vessel) [SDNTK] (Linked 
To: MERHI, Merhi Ali Abou; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL).

To

CITY OF TOKYO (3ELV6) Panama flag; Vessel Registration 
Identification IMO 8709145; MMSI 636016488 (vessel) [SDNTK] (Linked 
To: MERHI, Merhi Ali

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Abou; Linked To: ABOU-MERHI LINES SAL).

    Dated: November 12, 2015.
Gregory T. Gatjanis,
Associate Director, Office of Global Targeting, Office of Foreign 
Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-30117 Filed 11-25-15; 8:45 am]
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