First Floor International Building, Kumul Highway, Port Vila, Vanuatu; P.O. Box 213, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Intercontinental de Aviacion S.A. is a small, regional Colombian airline that has facilitated the North Valle cartel's drug trafficking and money laundering activities since the late 1980s. The network also includes two key offshore companies, Largo Leasing Limited in the Cayman Islands and Trans Pacific World Leasing Limited in Vanuatu, which are incorporated by and directly support Intercontinental de Aviacion.

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2004-10-14

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Narcotics Trafficking Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 536

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OFAC administers two sanctions programs with respect to narcotics trafficking. The Narcotics Trafficking Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 536 (NTSR), implement Executive Order (E.O.) 12978 of October 21, 1995, “Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers” (60 FR 54579, October 24, 1995), as amended by E.O. 13286 of February 28, 2003, “Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in Connection With the Transfer of Certain Functions to the Secretary of Homeland Security” (68 FR 10619, March 3, 2003), in which the President declared a national emergency, and imposed sanctions, with respect to “the actions of significant foreign narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and the unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm that they cause in the United States and abroad.”

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