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DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
OFAC adds to Drug Kingpin List
31 May 2008

The Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC, has listed a number of individuals as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins. The countries they are from are Mexico, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Italy and Turkey. Also designated were three criminal organisations, including the previously listed Foreign Terrorist Organisation and Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The individuals named:

  • Marcos Arturo Beltran Leyva, Sinaloa Cartel [World-Check UID 250411]
  • Hermagoras Gonzalez Polanco, Guajira Cartel/Cartel del Sol [World-Check UID 246901]
  • Haji Asad Khan Zarkari Mohammadhasnim, Afghanistan [World-Check UID 880039]
  • Cumhur Yakut, Turkey [World-Check UID 88040]

The organisations:

  • Beltran Leyva Organisation, Mexico [World-Check UID 88041]
  • Ndrangheta Organisation, Italy [World-Check UID 880042]
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey  [World-Check UID 1734]
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Readers are urged to review the complete World-Check Profiles on these individuals and organisations.

The facts and opinions stated in this article are those of the author and not those of World-Check. World-Check does not warrant the accuracy of any facts and opinions stated in this article, does not endorse them, and accepts no responsibility for them.

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