2011-10785. Additional Designations, Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act

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 two individuals and one entity 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 Director of OFAC of the two individuals and one entity identified in this notice pursuant to section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act is effective on April 28, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Assistant Director, Compliance Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

This document and additional information concerning OFAC are available on OFAC's Web site (http://www.treasury.gov/​ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on-demand service, tel.: [phone].

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 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 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 Administration, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security when designating and blocking the property and interests in property, subject to U.S. jurisdiction, of foreign 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 April 28, 2011, the Director of OFAC designated two individuals and one entity whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to section 805(b) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.

The list of additional designees is as follows:

1. SHAYESTEH, Bahram Ali (a.k.a. JADALI, Bahrami Ali; a.k.a. SHAYESTEH, Bahrami Ali), 80331 Muenchen, Bayern, Germany; DOB 6 May 1963; alt. DOB 6 Aug 1963; alt. DOB 13 Jun 1958; POB Tehran, Iran (individual) [SDNTK]

2. OEZER-SHAYESTEH, Guelin, 80331 Muenchen, Bayern, Germany; DOB 15 Feb 1962; citizen Germany (individual) [SDNTK]

3. INTERCONTINENTAL BAUMASCHINEN UND NUTZFAHRZEUGE HANDELS GMBH (a.k.a. INTERCONTINENTAL BAUMASCHINEN), Noerdliche Auffahrtsallee 13, 80638, Muenchen, Bayern, Germany; Klugstrasse 71, 80637, Munich, Germany; Business Registration Document #HRB147158 [SDNTK]

Dated: April 28, 2011.

Adam J. Szubin,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.