Country
Territorial subdivision
Type of court
Seat of court
Oyem
Court jurisdiction
Date of opinion
2020
Abstract
On April 11, 2018, elements of the Mitzic brigade were informed by an NGO that on ivory transaction would take place in a motel in Mitzic. With the information, the gendarmes set an entrapment to catch the suspects. That’s how they arrested SISSOKO BIRAMA, CISSE Mamadou in a hotel room in possession of four ivory tusks. During the interrogation, the suspects declared that they got the ivory tusks from one known as Daniel and CISSE Mamadou was having a potential buyer of the tusks.
Language of document
French
Charges
Illegal possession and trade in Ivory tusks.
Species
Money value
XAF 100,000 (one hundred thousand) per Kg
Transnational
Yes
Decision
SISSOKO BIRAMA, CISSE Mamadou were found not guilty of trade in trophies from fully protected species and found guilty of illegal possession of ivory tusks.
Appealed
No
Penalty
SISSOKO BIRAMA, CISSE Mamadou were sentenced each to three months imprisonment, XAF 25,000 (twenty-five thousand) as fines and to pay XAF 1,000,000 (one million) as civil damages to the Water and forests administration; Ban to stay in Gabon of five years; The accused were sentenced to pay the costs; The court ordered the sealed products to be confiscated to the profit of the wildlife administration.
Legislation cited
Forest Code