; (II) Major General Maung Maung Soe; and (III) Major General Khin Maung Soe; and (ii) any senior official of the military or security forces of Burma for which there are credible allegations that the official has aided, participated, or is otherwise implicated in gross human rights abuses in Burma, including sexual and ethnic- or gender-based violence. (C) SDN list defined In this paragraph, the term SDN list means the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury. (3) Authority for additional financial sanctions The Secretary of the Treasury may prohibit or impose appropriate conditions on the opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account or payable-through account by any financial institution or financial agency that is a United States person, for or on behalf of a foreign financial institution, if the Secretary determines that the account is knowingly used— (A) by a foreign financial institution that holds property or an interest in property of any individual included on the most recent list submitted pursuant to subsection (a) ; or (B) to conduct a transaction on behalf of any individual on that list. (4) Rule of construction Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prohibit any contract or other financial transaction by a United States person with a credible nongovernmental humanitarian organization in Burma. (c) Removal from lists The President may remove an individual from a list submitted pursuant to subsection (a), or remove an individual included on the SDN list pursuant to subsection (b)(2) from that list, if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— (1) the individual has— (A) publicly acknowledged the role of the individual in committing past human rights abuses; (B) cooperated with independent efforts to investigate such abuses; (C) been held accountable for such abuses