EU General Court Annuls DRC Sanctions Listing, Upholds 9 Others

The EU General Court annulled the European Council acts keeping Ferdinand Ilunga Luyoyo on the EU's Democratic Republic of the Congo sanctions list. The court found that Ilunga Luyoyo, the former commander of the National Intervention Legion in the Congolese national police, no longer held the positions that landed him on the list and that the council failed to give sufficient evidence linking him and the security situation in the DRC, according to an unofficial translation.

The court dismissed the applications by nine other DRC nationals to annul their sanctions listings Evariste Boshab, Alex Kande Mupompa, Celestin Kanyama, Jean-Claude Kazembe Musonda, Gabriel Amisi Kumba, Kalev Mutondo, Ilunga Kampete, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and Eric Ruhorimbere, per unofficial translations.