Unblocking of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers Pursuant to Executive Order (12978)

Federal Register: December 30, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 250)

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Unblocking of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers Pursuant to Executive Order 12978

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control

(``OFAC'') is publishing the names of three individuals whose property and interests in property have been unblocked pursuant to Executive

Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, Blocking Assets and Prohibiting

Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers.

DATES: The unblocking and removal from OFAC's ``Specially Designated

Nationals and Blocked Persons'' list (``SDN list'') of three individuals identified in this notice whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, is effective on December 22, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance

Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 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 from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand service, tel.: (202) 622- 0077.

Background

On October 21, 1995, the President, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), issued Executive Order 12978 (60 FR 54579, October 24, 1995) (the ``Order''). In the Order, the President declared a national emergency to deal with the threat posed by significant foreign narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia and the harm that they cause in the United States and abroad.

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all property and interests in property that are in the United States, or that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1)

The persons listed in an Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person determined by the Secretary of Treasury, in consultation with the

Attorney General and Secretary of State: (a) To play a significant role in international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia; or (b) to materially assist in, or provide financial or technological support for or goods or services in support of, the narcotics trafficking activities of persons designated in or pursuant to the Order; and (3) persons determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, to be owned or controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, persons designated pursuant to the Order.

On December 22, 2008, the Director of OFAC removed from the SDN list three individuals listed below, whose property and interests in property were blocked pursuant to the Order: 1. CHANG BARRERO, Pedro Antonio, c/o DISTRIBUIDORA MIGIL LTDA.,

Cali, Colombia; c/o RADIO UNIDAS FM S.A., Cali, Colombia; DOB 1 May 1946; Cedula No. 14960909 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]. 2. BUITRAGO, Sulay (a.k.a. HERRERA BUITRAGO, Sulay), c/o

AGROPECUARIA Y REFORESTADORA HERREBE LTDA., Cali, Colombia; c/o

CONSTRUEXITO S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o INDUSTRIA AVICOLA PALMASECA

S.A., Cali, Colombia; c/o INVERSIONES HERREBE LTDA., Cali, Colombia;

DOB 27 Nov 1967; Cedula No. 31176167 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT]. 3. GARCIA VASQUEZ, Isabel Fernanda, c/o ALERO S.A., Cali, Colombia;

Cedula No. 31983848 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].

Dated: December 23, 2008.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.

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