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Treasury Blocks Over 70 Individuals, Entities Under Kingpin Act

The Treasury Department announces the designation of Colombian national Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa (aka Elkin de Jesus Lopez Salazar) and more than 70 individuals and entities in Cifuentes Villa’s drug trafficking and money laundering organization pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics…

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Kingpin Designation Act, which prohibits U.S. persons from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these entities and individuals and freezes any assets the designees may have under U.S. jurisdiction. The Office of Foreign Assets Control has also updated its Specially Designated Nationals List to include these designations.