Côte d'Ivoire is committed to the adoption of a bill creating an economic and financial penal center. The announcement was made by Ivorian government spokesman Amadou Coulibaly on Wednesday.

The Council adopted "a bill on the creation, competent organization and functioning of the economic and financial penal pole, specialized in economic and financial matters", Amadou Coulibaly told the press. This bill establishing an economic and financial criminal center aims to fight, among other things, against the financing of terrorism. This bill is worded "in coherence with the international commitments of Côte d'Ivoire, in particular on the United Nations Convention for the fight against corruption and various other regional and sub-regional instruments". For Amadou Coulibaly, with this new specialized jurisdiction, it will be a question of setting up the institutional framework for repression, corruption and similar offences, money laundering, financing of terrorism and related financial offences.