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Also designated today by OFAC is Octavio Cartagena Benitez (a.k.a. “Don Gabriel” or “Gabriel Paraco”), who is a primary liaison to La Oficina for Clan Usuga.  A truce between La Oficina and Clan Usuga established a power-sharing agreement for criminal activity in Medellin in 2013.  Cartagena Benitez works with La Oficina counterpart Juan Carlos Mesa Vallejo (a.k.a. “Tom”), who was designated by OFAC on September 16, 2014, to maintain La Oficina’s power- sharing agreement with Clan Usuga.  The President identified the group under its formal name Los Urabeños as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker pursuant to the Kingpin Act on May 31, 2013.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl0089

2015-06-24

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Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598

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The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 598 (FNKSR), implement the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901–1908), which provides authority for the application of sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations operating worldwide.

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