Russia declares search and capture of CPI president for ordering Putin’s arrest

The Ministry of the Interior of Russia declared today in the search and capture of Piotr Hofmanski, president of International Criminal Court (CPI), who ordered the arrest of the Russian president last March, Vladimir Putinfor alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

Hofmanski He is wanted under an article of the criminal code, according to the Ministry’s database, which does not specify the exact reason for the persecution.

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The vice president, Luz del Carmen Ibáñezand the ICC judge, Bertram Schmitt.

Last May, Moscow He has already declared the search and capture of the prosecutor of the same court, Karim Ahmad Khanwho was the one who issued the arrest warrant.

O CPI issued an arrest warrant for Putin on March 17 as “alleged responsible”of the illegal deportation of children and their transfer from occupied areas in Ukraine in the direction Russiawhat is a war crime.

He also issued another arrest warrant for the Russian politician Maria Lvova-BelovaPresidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, with the same accusation.

He Kremlin He assured that he does not recognize the jurisdiction of the court and considers “legally void” the arrest warrant against the head of the Russian state.

The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the prosecutor and judges of the CPInoting that the criminal prosecution of the Russian president “It is deliberately illegal in nature, as there is no basis for imputing criminal liability.”

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrovcalled the weekend in New York to the UN Secretary General, António Guterresto provide evidence on the charge that Moscow kidnapped Ukrainian children.

Due to the arrest warrant, Putin has not yet traveled abroad this year and even canceled his participation in South Africa at the BRICS group summit in August.

According to the Kremlin, the Russian leader will travel to Chinaa country that has not signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC.

Source: Elcomercio

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