GRUPO WISA, S.A.

Panama

Calle 15 entre Avenida Santa Isabel y Avenida Roosevelt, Zona Libre de Colon, Colon, Panama; Torre Generali, Piso 11 y 12, Calle 54 Este y Avenida Samuel Lewis, Panama, Panama; Colombia; Guatemala; Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Mexico; Bolivia; Honduras; Nicaragua; Uruguay

645451-1-458900, RUC #

OFAC also targeted six Waked MLO associates and 68 companies tied to the drug money laundering network, including Grupo Wisa, S.A., Vida Panama (Zona Libre) S.A., and Balboa Bank & Trust. Concurrent with this action, OFAC is issuing three general licenses that authorize certain transactions and activities for limited periods of time with five entities owned or controlled by the Waked network: Soho Panama, S.A. (a.k.a. Soho Mall Panama), a luxury mall in downtown Panama City; Plaza Milenio, S.A. (Millennium Plaza) and Administracion Millenium Plaza, S.A., related to a hotel complex in Colon, Panama; and two Panamanian newspapers, La Estrella and El Siglo, which are owned by Grupo Wisa, S.A.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl0450

2016-05-05

US

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

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Drugs

Blocking Property

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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