[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 212 (Friday, November 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66709-66710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-27815]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Additional Designations of Terrorism-Related Blocked Persons
AGENCIES: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is
publishing the names of four additional persons whose property and
interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001, pertaining to persons who commit, threaten
to commit, or support terrorism.
DATES: The designations by the Secretary of the Treasury of additional
persons identified in this notice whose property and interests in
property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13224 are
effective on September 30, 2002.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Foreign Assets Control,
Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2520.
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Background
On September 23, 2001, President Bush issued Executive Order 13224
(the ``Order'') imposing economic sanctions on persons who commit,
threaten to commit, or support certain acts of terrorism. In an annex
to the Order, President Bush identified 12 individuals and 15 entities
whose assets are blocked pursuant to the Order (66 FR 49079, September
25, 2001). Additional persons have been blocked pursuant to authorities
set forth in the Order since that date and notice of these additional
blockings have been published in the Federal Register.
Additional Designations. On September 30, 2002, the Secretary of
the
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Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney
General, acting pursuant to authorities set forth in the Order
designated four additional persons whose property and interests in
property are blocked. The names of these additional persons are set
forth in the list below. Persons, and their known aliases, will be
added to appendix A to 31 CFR chapter V, through a separate Federal
Register document, as ``specially designated global terrorists''
identified by the initials ``[SDGT]''. Appendix A lists the names of
persons with respect to whom transactions are subject to the various
economic sanctions programs administered by the Office of Foreign
Assets Control.
The designations by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to
Executive Order 13224 of these additional persons listed below are
effective on September 30, 2002. All property and interests in property
of any designated person, including but not limited to all accounts,
that are or come within the United States or that are or come within
the possession or control of United States persons, including their
overseas branches, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid,
exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in, and all transactions or
dealings by U.S. persons or within the United States in property or
interests in property of any designated person are prohibited, unless
licensed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control or exempted by
statute.
In Section 10 of the Order, the President determined that because
of the ability to transfer funds or assets instantaneously, prior
notice to persons listed in the Annex to, or determined to be subject
to, the Order who might have a constitutional presence in the United
States, would render ineffectual the blocking and other measures
authorized in the Order. The President further determined that no prior
notification of a determination need be provided to any person who
might have a constitutional presence in the United States. In
furtherance of the objectives of the Order, the Secretary of the
Treasury has determined that no prior notice should be afforded to the
subjects of the determinations reflected in this notice because to do
so would give the subjects the opportunity to evade the measures
described in the Order and, consequently, render those measures
ineffectual toward addressing the national emergency declared in the
Order.
The list of additional designations follow:
1. BAHAJI, Said, Bunatwiete 23, 21073 Hamburg, Germany; DOB 15 Jul
1975; POB Haselunne, Lower Saxony, Germany (individual).
2. BINALSHIBH, Ramzi Mohammed Abdullah (a.k.a. BIN AL SHIBH, Ramzi;
a.k.a. BINALSHEIDAH, Ramzi Mohamed Abdullah; a.k.a. OMAR, Ramzi
Mohammed Abdellah), Schleemer Ring 2, 22117 Hamburg, Germany; DOB 1 May
1972; POB Hadramawt, Yemen (individual).
3. EL MOTASSADEQ, Mounir, Goschenstasse 13, 21073 Hamburg, Germany; DOB
3 Apr 1974; POB Marrakesh, Morocco (individual).
4. ESSABAR, Zakarya (a.k.a. ESSABAR, Zakariya), Dortmunder Strasse 38,
22419 Hamburg; DOB 3 Apr 1977; POB Essaouria, Morocco (individual).
Dated: October 9, 2002.
R. Richard Newcomb,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Approved: October 15, 2002.
Kenneth Lawson,
Assistant Secretary (Enforcement), Department of the Treasury.
[FR Doc. 02-27815 Filed 10-31-02; 8:45 am]
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