This news release is issued in respect of the restrictive measures directed against Ivory Coast.
Annex I and Annex IA to Council Regulation (EC) No 560/2005 have been amended with effect from 22 April 2015, following the publication of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/615 (“the Amending Regulation”).
The Amending Regulation reflects the decision made on 26 February 2015 by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1572 (2004) to remove one individual from the list of persons subject to paragraphs 9 and 12 of that Resolution, and to amend the identifying information of six existing entries.
The Amending Regulation also reflects the judgement by the General Court of the European Union on 14 January 2015 in Case T-406/13 to annul the listing of Marcel GOSSIO.
DELISTING
Individuals
GOSSIO, Marcel
DOB: 18/02/1951
POB: Adjame
Passport Details: 08AA14345. Expiry date 6 Oct 2013
Other Information: EU listing. Not UN. Subject of an international arrest warrant.
Group ID: 11348
N’GUESSAN, Pascal, Affi
DOB: 01/01/1953
POB: Bouadriko, Ivory Coast
Passport Details: PD-AE 09DD00013
Position: Chairman of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI)
Other Information: UN listing.
Group ID: 11289
AMENDMENTS
Amended information appears in square brackets [ ]. Additional information appears in italics.
Individuals
BLE GOUDE, Charles
DOB: 01/01/1972
POB:
- Guiberoua (Gagnoa)
- Niagbrahio/Guiberoua
- Guiberoua, Ivory Coast
a.k.a.
- DE KPO, Génie
- ZADI, Gbape
Nationality: Ivorian
Passport Details:
- AE/088 DH 12 (Ivory Coast). Issued on 20 Dec 2002. Valid until 11 Dec 2005
- 04LE66241 (Ivory Coast). Issued on 10 Nov 2005. Valid until 9 Nov 2008
- 98LC39292 (Ivory Coast). Issued on 24 Nov 2000. Valid until 23 Nov 2003
Address:
- c/o Hotel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- [Abidjan,] Cocody (suburb), Abidjan, Ivory Coast
- Yopougon Selmer, Bloc P 170, Ivory Coast [(as at 2001)]
Other Information: UN listing. Leader of COJEP (Young Patriots). Abidjan address declared in travel document C2310421 (Switzerland) issued on 15 Nov 2005, valid until 31 Dec 2005. Also referred to as General. [and Genie De Kpo]
Group ID: 8824
DJUE, Eugene, N’goran, Kouadio
DOB:
- 20/12/1969
- 01/01/1966
POB: Ivory Coast
Nationality: Ivorian
Passport Details: 04 LE 017521. Issued on 10 Feb 2005. Valid until 10 Feb 2008
Other Information: UN listing. Leader of the Union des Patriotes pour la Liberation Totale de la Cote d’Ivoire (UPLTCI).
Group ID: 8825
FOFIE, Martin, Kouakou
DOB: 01/01/1968
POB: Bohi, Ivory Coast
Nationality: Ivorian
Passport Details:
- [Identity card 2096927 (Burkina Faso). Issued on 17 Mar 2005]
- [Nationality certificate CNB N.076 (Burkina Faso) (17 Feb 2003)]
- [Identity card 970860100249 (Ivory Coast). Issued on 5 Aug 1997. Valid until 5 Aug 2007]
National Identification No:
- 2096927, issued on 17.3.2005, issued in Burkina Faso
- CNB N.076, issued on 17.2.2003, issued in Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso National Certificate)
- 970860100249, issued on 5.8.1997, issued in Ivory Coast
Other Information: UN listing. Chief Corporal New Force Commandant, Korhogo Sector. Name of father is Yao Koffi Fofie. Name of mother is Ama Krouama Kossonou.
Group ID: 8830
GBAGBO, Laurent
DOB: 31/05/1945
POB: Gagnoa, Ivory Coast
Nationality: Ivorian
Postion: Former president of the Ivory Coast
Other Information: UN listing.
Group ID: 11301
GBAGBO, Simone
DOB: 20/06/1949
POB: Moossou, Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast
Nationality: Ivorian
Position: Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI)
Other Information: UN listing.
Group ID: 11302
TAGRO, Desire
DOB: 27/01/1959
POB: Issia, Ivory Coast
Passport Details: Passport No: AE 065FH08 [PD AE 065FH08]
Nationality: Ivorian
Position: Secretary-General in the so-called ‘presidency’ of Mr Gbagbo
Other Information: UN listing. Deceased on 12 April 2011 in Abidjan.
Group ID: 11306
The individuals removed from Annex I are therefore no longer subject to the asset freeze imposed by the 2005 Regulation.
Financial institutions and other persons are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold funds or economic resources for, or provide financial services to, the designated persons and entities. If so, they must freeze such accounts or other funds and, unless licensed by the Treasury, refrain from dealing with said funds or economic resources, and suspend the provision of any financial services. They must also report their findings to the Sanctions Officer at the Customs and Excise Division of the Treasury. Where a relevant institution has already reported details of accounts, other funds or economic resources held frozen for the designated persons or entities they are not required to report these details again.
Further details of the sanctions regime related to the Ivory Coast and links to the Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to these and other financial sanctions may be found on the Customs and Excise pages of the Isle of Man Government website.
