Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Enforcement in Cote d'Ivoire rests on the licensing-offence structure of Law No. 2020-480, under which operation outside the LONACI concession or an ARJH authorisation is itself unlawful, backed since April 2026 by a dedicated Council of Ministers-created surveillance unit. That decree gives sworn agents power to conduct unannounced audits and seize non-compliant equipment, acting jointly with the Economic and Financial Criminal Unit and the Criminal Asset Recovery Agency; the reporting behind it is T2-sourced press coverage of a Conseil des Ministres decree, not an independently retrieved primary decree text, so treat its precise scope as probable. This follows a demonstrated pattern: ARJH destroyed more than 110 unlicensed slot machines and their components in the Abidjan/Bingerville area in October 2025, evidencing physical seizure and destruction rather than administrative fines alone as the state's preferred remedy against grey-market equipment. The licence-revocation risk drivers for a licensed operator are the underlying statute's exclusivity terms and any equipment or activity found outside the concession or authorisation boundary; for an unlicensed operator, the risk is direct seizure and destruction under the demonstrated enforcement pattern, now reinforced by dedicated investigative capacity.