U.S. Adds Another 198 To List of Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers

On March 8, 1996, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury issued a notice of blocking for 138 additional individuals and 60 entities and revising information for eight individuals on the list of blocked persons contained in the notices published on November 29, 1995, and October 24, 1995. These listed persons have been determined to play a significant role in international narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia or have been determined to be owned or controlled by, or to act for or on behalf of, other blocked persons on the list. The notice has an effective date of March 5, 1996, or "upon prior actual notice"...(more)