Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia issued an arrest warrant for the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khantwo months after the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the president Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes, the state news agency TASS reported today, citing the Interior Ministry database.

“Date of birth: March 30, 1970. Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland (…) Wanted under the Criminal Code,” reads a statement published on the website of the ministry, without specifying the nature of the offense.

The ICC accuses Putin of war crimes for “forcibly transferring” thousands of children from Ukraine to Russia after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These accusations are rejected by Moscow.

While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the ICC decision “historic” and US President Joe Biden “justified,” Moscow dismissed it as “invalid” because Russia is not a member of the ICC and does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction. Kremlin.

A few days after the ICC announced the issuance of this arrest warrant, in mid-March, Moscow reacted by announcing the opening of a criminal investigation against Khan and three ICC judges.

According to this Russian investigation, Khan is accused of persecuting an innocent person and of “preparing an attack on a representative of a foreign state.”