80 FR 74217 - Updating of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons Pursuant to Executive Order 12978

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 228 (November 27, 2015)

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is updating the identifying information for two individuals that were previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 12978 (Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers).

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30118]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Updating of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons 
Pursuant to Executive Order 12978

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 two 
individuals that were previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 
12978 (Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant 
Narcotics Traffickers).

DATES: The update to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and 
Blocked Persons (SDN List) of the individuals identified in this notice 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 12978, 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 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, ``Blocking Assets and 
Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers'' (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 the Secretary of State, to play a significant role 
in international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia, or 
materially to 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 November 12, 2015, the Associate Director of the Office of 
Global Targeting updated the SDN listing of the two individuals listed 
below, whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
Executive Order 12978:

Individual

    1. SANTACRUZ LONDONO, Jose (a.k.a. ``CHEPE''; a.k.a. ``DON CHEPE''; 
a.k.a. ``EL GORDO CHEPE''), Cali, Colombia; DOB 01 Oct 1943; Cedula No. 
14432230 (Colombia); Passport AB149814 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
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    SANTACRUZ LONDONO, Jose (a.k.a. ``CHEPE''; a.k.a. ``DON CHEPE''; 
a.k.a. ``EL GORDO CHEPE''), Cali, Colombia; DOB 01 Oct 1943; Passport 
AB149814 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
    2. GARCIA PIZARRO, Gentil Velez, c/o GALAPAGOS S.A., Cali, 
Colombia; Cedula No. 6616986 (Colombia) (individual) [SDNT].
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    GARCIA PIZARRO, Gentil Velez, Cali, Colombia (individual) [SDNT] 
(Linked To: GALAPAGOS S.A).

    Dated: November 12, 2015.
Gregory T. Gatjanis,
Associate Director, Office of Global Targeting, Office of Foreign 
Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2015-30118 Filed 11-25-15; 8:45 am]
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