83_FR_62905 83 FR 62672 - Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions.

83 FR 62672 - Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 233 (December 4, 2018)

Page Range62672-62673
FR Document2018-26216

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62672-62673]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-26216]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions.

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 publishing the names of one or more persons that have 
been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked 
Persons List based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable 
legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property 
subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. 
persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with 
them.

DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for applicable date(s).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OFAC: Associate Director for Global 
Targeting, tel.: 202-622-2420; Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.: 
202-622-2480; Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs, tel.: 202-622-
4855; Assistant Director for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, tel.: 
202-622-2490; or the Department of the Treasury's Office of the General 
Counsel: Office of the Chief Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.: 
202-622-2410.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Availability

    The Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List and 
additional information concerning OFAC sanctions programs are available 
on OFAC's website (www.treasury.gov/ofac).

Notice of OFAC Actions

    On November 28, 2018, OFAC determined that the property and 
interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of the following 
persons are

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blocked under the relevant sanctions authority listed below.

Individuals:

    1. GHORBANIYAN, Mohammad (a.k.a. GHORBANIAN, Mohammad; a.k.a. 
``EnExchanger''; a.k.a. ``Ensaniyat''; a.k.a. 
``Ensaniyat_Exchanger''), Iran; DOB 09 Mar 1987; POB Tehran, Iran; 
nationality Iran; website www.enexchanger.com; Email Address 
[email protected]; alt. Email Address [email protected]; 
Additional Sanctions Information--Subject to Secondary Sanctions; 
Gender Male; Digital Currency Address--XBT 
1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V; Identification Number 008-
046347-9 (Iran); Birth Certificate Number 32270 (Iran) (individual) 
[CYBER2].
    2. KHORASHADIZADEH, Ali (a.k.a. ``Iranvisacart''; a.k.a. 
``Mastercartaria''), Iran; DOB 21 Sep 1979; POB Tehran, Iran; 
nationality Iran; Email Address [email protected]; alt. Email 
Address [email protected]; alt. Email Address 
[email protected]; alt. Email Address [email protected]; 
alt. Email Address [email protected]; Additional Sanctions 
Information--Subject to Secondary Sanctions; Gender Male; Digital 
Currency Address--XBT 149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C; Passport 
T14553558 (Iran) issued 28 Oct 2008 expires 29 Oct 2013 (individual) 
[CYBER2].

    Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(iii)(B) of Executive Order 
13694 of April 1, 2015, ``Blocking the Property of Certain Persons 
Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,'' as 
amended, (E.O. 13694) for having materially assisted, sponsored, or 
provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or 
services to or in support of an activity described in section 1(a)(ii) 
of E.O. 13694, namely the SamSam ransomware attacks.

    Dated: November 28, 2018.
Andrea Gacki,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2018-26216 Filed 12-3-18; 8:45 am]
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62672 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 233 / Tuesday, December 4, 2018 / Notices FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: banks, savings associations, and credit (d) Ways to minimize the burden of Shaquita Merritt, Clearance Officer, unions. information collections on respondents, (202) 649–5490 or, for persons who are Section 14 of the Policy Statement including through the use of automated deaf or hearing impaired, TTY, (202) provides that financial institutions collection techniques or other forms of 649–5597, Chief Counsel’s Office, Office should consider liquidity costs, benefits, information technology; and of the Comptroller of the Currency, 400 and risks in strategic planning and (e) Estimates of capital or start-up 7th Street SW, Suite 3E–218, budgeting processes. Significant costs and costs of operation, Washington, DC 20219. business activities should be evaluated maintenance, and purchase of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the for liquidity risk exposure as well as services necessary to provide the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal profitability. More complex and required information. agencies must obtain approval from sophisticated financial institutions Dated: November 28, 2018. OMB for each collection of information should incorporate liquidity costs, Theodore J. Dowd, they conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of benefits, and risks in the internal Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C. product pricing, performance Comptroller of the Currency. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) to include measurement, and new product [FR Doc. 2018–26251 Filed 12–3–18; 8:45 am] agency requests or requirements that approval process for all material BILLING CODE 4810–33–P members of the public submit reports, business lines, products, and activities. keep records, or provide information to Incorporating the cost of liquidity into a third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of these functions should align the risk- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY title 44 requires federal agencies to taking incentives of individual business provide a 60-day notice in the Federal lines with the liquidity risk exposure Office of Foreign Assets Control Register concerning each proposed their activities create for the institution collection of information, including as a whole. The quantification and Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions. each proposed extension of an existing attribution of liquidity risks should be AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets collection of information, before explicit and transparent at the line Control, Treasury. submitting the collection to OMB for management level, and should include consideration of how liquidity would be ACTION: Notice. approval. To comply with this requirement, the OCC is publishing affected under stressed conditions. SUMMARY: The Department of the notice of the collection of information Section 20 of the Policy Statement Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets set forth in this document. states that liquidity risk reports should Control (OFAC) is publishing the names Title: Funding and Liquidity Risk provide aggregate information with of one or more persons that have been Management. sufficient supporting detail to enable placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated OMB Control No.: 1557–0244. management to assess the sensitivity of Nationals and Blocked Persons List the institution to changes in market based on OFAC’s determination that one Description: The Interagency Policy conditions, its own financial or more applicable legal criteria were Statement on Funding and Liquidity performance, and other important risk satisfied. All property and interests in Risk Management 2 (Policy Statement) factors. Institutions also should report property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of summarizes the principles of sound on the use and availability of these persons are blocked, and U.S. liquidity risk management that the government support, such as lending persons are generally prohibited from federal banking agencies have issued in and guarantee programs, and engaging in transactions with them. the past 3 and, where appropriate, implications on liquidity positions, harmonizes these principles with the DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION particularly since these programs are international statement issued by the section for applicable date(s). generally temporary or reserved as a Basel Committee on Banking FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: source for contingent funding. Supervision titled ‘‘Principles for Sound OFAC: Associate Director for Global Type of Review: Regular. Liquidity Risk Management and Affected Public: Businesses or other Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; Assistant Supervision.’’ 4 The Policy Statement for-profit. Director for Licensing, tel.: 202–622– describes supervisory expectations for Estimated Number of Respondents: 2480; Assistant Director for Regulatory all depository institutions including 1,171. Affairs, tel.: 202–622–4855; Assistant Frequency of Response: On occasion. Director for Sanctions Compliance & 2 75 FR 13656 (Mar. 22, 2010). Estimated Total Burden Hours: 84,464 Evaluation, tel.: 202–622–2490; or the 3 For national banks and federal savings hours. Department of the Treasury’s Office of associations, see the Comptroller’s Handbook on Comments: Comments submitted in the General Counsel: Office of the Chief Liquidity. For state member banks and bank holding companies, see the Federal Reserve’s Commercial response to this notice will be Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.: Bank Examination Manual (section 4020), Bank summarized and included in the request 202–622–2410. Holding Company Supervision Manual (section for OMB approval. All comments will SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 4010), and Trading and Capital Markets Activities become a matter of public record. Manual (section 2030). For state non-member Electronic Availability banks, see the FDIC’s Revised Examination Comments are invited on: Guidance for Liquidity and Funds Management (a) Whether the information The Specially Designated Nationals (Trans. No. 2002–01) (Nov. 19, 2001), and Financial collections are necessary for the proper and Blocked Persons List and additional Institution Letter 84–2008, Liquidity Risk performance of the functions of the information concerning OFAC sanctions Management (August 2008). For federally insured credit unions, see Letter to Credit Unions No. 02– OCC, including whether the information programs are available on OFAC’s CU–05, Examination Program Liquidity has practical utility; website (www.treasury.gov/ofac). Questionnaire (March 2002). (b) The accuracy of the OCC’s 4 Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, estimate of the information collection Notice of OFAC Actions ‘‘Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management burden; On November 28, 2018, OFAC and Supervision,’’ September 2008. See www.bis.org/publ/bcbs144.htm. Federally insured (c) Ways to enhance the quality, determined that the property and credit unions are not directly referenced in the utility, and clarity of the information to interests in property subject to U.S. principles issued by the Basel Committee. be collected; jurisdiction of the following persons are VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:26 Dec 03, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00113 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04DEN1.SGM 04DEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 233 / Tuesday, December 4, 2018 / Notices 62673 blocked under the relevant sanctions invites the public and other Federal retained if their contents may become authority listed below. agencies to take this opportunity to material in the administration of any comment on proposed and/or internal revenue law. Generally, tax Individuals: continuing information collections, as returns and tax return information are 1. GHORBANIYAN, Mohammad (a.k.a. required by the Paperwork Reduction confidential, as required by 26 U.S.C. GHORBANIAN, Mohammad; a.k.a. Act of 1995. Currently, the IRS is 6103. ‘‘EnExchanger’’; a.k.a. ‘‘Ensaniyat’’; a.k.a. soliciting comments concerning Desired Focus of Comments: The ‘‘Ensaniyat_Exchanger’’), Iran; DOB 09 Mar 1987; POB Tehran, Iran; nationality Iran; modifications of commercial mortgage Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is website www.enexchanger.com; Email loans held by a real estate mortgage particularly interested in comments Address EnExchanger@gmail.com; alt. Email investment conduit. that: Address Ensaniyat1365@gmail.com; DATES: Written comments should be • Evaluate whether the proposed Additional Sanctions Information—Subject received on or before February 4, 2019 collection of information is necessary to Secondary Sanctions; Gender Male; Digital to be assured of consideration. for the proper performance of the Currency Address—XBT 1AjZPMsnmpd functions of the agency, including K2Rv9KQNfMurTXinscVro9V; Identification ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments whether the information will have Number 008–046347–9 (Iran); Birth to Carolyn Brown, Internal Revenue practical utility; Certificate Number 32270 (Iran) (individual) Service, Room 6236, 1111 Constitution [CYBER2]. • Evaluate the accuracy of the Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224. 2. KHORASHADIZADEH, Ali (a.k.a. agency’s estimate of the burden of the Requests for additional information or ‘‘Iranvisacart’’; a.k.a. ‘‘Mastercartaria’’), Iran; proposed collection of information, copies of the regulations should be DOB 21 Sep 1979; POB Tehran, Iran; including the validity of the nationality Iran; Email Address iranvisacart@ directed to R. Joseph Durbala, at Internal methodology and assumptions used; yahoo.com; alt. Email Address Revenue Service, Room 6129, 1111 • Enhance the quality, utility, and mastercartaria@yahoo.com; alt. Email Constitution Avenue NW, Washington clarity of the information to be Address alikhorashadi@yahoo.com; alt. DC 20224, or through the internet, at collected; and Email Address toppglasses@gmail.com; alt. RJoseph.Durbala@irs.gov. • Minimize the burden of the Email Address iranian_boy5@yahoo.com; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Additional Sanctions Information—Subject collection of information on those who Title: Obligations principally secured are to respond, including using to Secondary Sanctions; Gender Male; Digital Currency Address—XBT 149w62rY42aZBox by an interest in real property. appropriate automated, electronic, 8fGcmqNsXUzSStKeq8C; Passport OMB Number: 1545–2110. mechanical, or other technological T14553558 (Iran) issued 28 Oct 2008 expires Form Number: TD 9463. collection techniques or other forms of 29 Oct 2013 (individual) [CYBER2]. Abstract: This collection covers final information technology, e.g., by regulations under section 1.860G–2 that permitting electronic submissions of Designated pursuant to section expand the list of permitted loan responses. 1(a)(iii)(B) of Executive Order 13694 of modifications to include certain Comments submitted in response to April 1, 2015, ‘‘Blocking the Property of modifications that are often made to this notice will be summarized and/or Certain Persons Engaging in Significant commercial mortgages. The collection of included in the ICR for OMB approval Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,’’ as information in this regulation is in of the extension of the information amended, (E.O. 13694) for having section 1.860G–2(b)(7). To establish that collection; they will also become a materially assisted, sponsored, or the 80-percent test is met at the time of matter of public record. provided financial, material, or modification, the servicer must obtain technological support for, or goods or Approved: November 27, 2018. an appraisal or some other form of services to or in support of an activity R. Joseph Durbala, commercially reasonable valuation (the described in section 1(a)(ii) of E.O. IRS Tax Analyst. appraisal requirement). This 13694, namely the SamSam ransomware information is required to show that [FR Doc. 2018–26258 Filed 12–3–18; 8:45 am] attacks. modifications to mortgages permitted BILLING CODE 4830–01–P Dated: November 28, 2018. will not cause the modified mortgage to Andrea Gacki, cease to be a qualified mortgage. Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control. Current Actions: There is no change to DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY [FR Doc. 2018–26216 Filed 12–3–18; 8:45 am] the burden previously approved. Type of Review: Extension of a Internal Revenue Service BILLING CODE 4810–AL–P currently approved collection. Proposed Extension of Information Affected Public: Business or other for- Collection Request Submitted for DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY profit organizations. Public Comment; Comment Request Estimated Number of Respondents: Internal Revenue Service for Disclosure of Returns and Return 375. Information to Designee of Taxpayer Estimated Time Per Respondent: 8 Proposed Extension of Information hrs. AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Collection Request Submitted for Estimated Total Annual Burden Treasury. Public Comment; Comment Request Hours: 3,000. ACTION: Notice and request for for Tests for Determining Whether an The following paragraph applies to all Obligation is Principally Secured comments. the collections of information covered AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), by this notice: SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, Treasury. An agency may not conduct or as part of its continuing effort to reduce ACTION: Notice and request for sponsor, and a person is not required to paperwork and respondent burden, comments. respond to, a collection of information invites the public and other Federal unless the collection of information agencies to take this opportunity to SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, displays a valid OMB control number. comment on proposed and/or as part of its continuing effort to reduce Books or records relating to a continuing information collections, as paperwork and respondent burden, collection of information must be required by the Paperwork Reduction VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Dec 03, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00114 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04DEN1.SGM 04DEN1


Document Created: 2018-12-04 00:43:11
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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesSee SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for applicable date(s).
ContactOFAC: Associate Director for Global Targeting, tel.: 202-622-2420; Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.: 202-622-2480; Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs, tel.: 202-622- 4855; Assistant Director for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, tel.: 202-622-2490; or the Department of the Treasury's Office of the General Counsel: Office of the Chief Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.: 202-622-2410.
FR Citation83 FR 62672 
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