Russia puts ICC prosecutor on wanted list following Putin warrant: reports

Russia has placed the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on a wanted list in response to the court’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported. Russians.

RIA Novosti reported on Saturday that British prosecutor Karim Khan was listed by the Russian Interior Ministry, after being accused of “bringing a knowingly innocent person to criminal responsibility” and “unlawfully accusing a person of having committed a serious or particularly serious crime”.

The charges against Khan are crimesaccording to Politico.

The Russian government open criminal cases against Khan and ICC judges Tomoko Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez in March. It was just days after the ICC published arrest warrants for Putin and another senior Russian official for alleged war crimes related to the illegal forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia during the war.

Putin has denied that war crimes are being committed in the conflict, and Russia has said its program is designed to save children who have been abandoned where the conflict zone is, Reuters reported.

RIA reported that the judges were charged with willful unlawful detention and preparing to attack a representative of a foreign state.

The other official for whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant is Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, who is commissioner for children’s rights in the office of the Russian president. Authorities alleged that she “bears individual criminal responsibility” for her role in the deportation plan.

Putin is unlikely to be brought before an international court to face the charges against him, but the warrant was still a major denunciation of Putin internationally.

Russia does not accept the ICC’s authority, but the court argued that it could indict Russian officials because Ukraine had accepted its jurisdiction to investigate crimes committed by Russia on Ukrainian territory.

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