U.S takes 60 Colombians off sanction list

[Judi Lynn]

U.S takes 60 Colombians off sanction list


www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-17 05:43:05

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States has taken 60 Colombians off drug list after they cut ties with the Cali drug cartel, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday.

The 60 Colombians, who were designated as narcotics traffickers, "have cut ties with the Rodriguez Orejuela narcotics trafficking organization and have instead cooperated with the Colombian authorities," said Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The 60 Colombians are employees of Copservir, a company that operated a retail drugstore chain before the Colombian government seized control of its operations in September 2004, the Treasury said.

Under U.S. laws, they will be allowed to conduct business in the United States after they were identified to have cut ties with the narcotics trafficking organization.

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