Par le décret n02022349 du 1 June 2022, as modified é by the decree 22/982 é of 21 December Iné December 2022, Côte d'Ivoire created the Criminal Assets Management and Recovery Agency (AGRAC). It was in the context of the fight against economic and financial crime.

The main mission of AGRAC is to manage all assets, regardless of their nature, frozen, seized, confiscated or subject to a conservatory measure during criminal or administrative proceedings, that are entrusted to it. These assets require acts of to administer, to recover criminal assets frozen, seized or confiscated in the framework of criminal or administrative proceedings, to carry out all sales, before trial, of seized movable property, when such movable property is no longer useful for establishing the truth and is susceptible to depreciation, and to execute decisions to confiscate criminal assets in the context of criminal proceedings Naples.

Therefore, to act in accordance with its mission, AGRAC confiscated the ship NAJLAN imo 8806137, Saint Kitts and Nevis flag by judgment no. 67 of 2 June 2022 from the Economic and Financial Criminal Unit entrusted to it.