The Russian Interior Ministry has put the President of the International Criminal Court, Piotr Hofmanski, on the wanted list. This was reported by the Ria Novosti agency.
“Wanted under an article of the Criminal Code,” it says on the Interior Ministry website, justifying the decision to put Hofmanski on the wanted list.
The ICC, whose jurisdiction Moscow does not recognize, issued an arrest warrant on March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, accusing them of the “war crime of deportation, illegal relocation of populations (children) “. and illegal resettlement of the population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia”.
In response to this decision, three ICC judges and prosecutor Karim Khan were indicted by Moscow on various charges, including “attacking a representative of a foreign state under international protection with the aim of complicating international relations” and incriminating “a well-known person “. be innocent.”
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