ICC had issued arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March
Russia has added Piotr Hofmanski, the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to its wanted list months after the organization issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to reports.
A notice in the Russian interior ministry database showed that Hofmanski was placed on the wanted list, though it did not specify any details on allegations, according to the Russian state-run news website TASS.
"Hofmanski Piotr Jozef, Polish. Wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," the notice said, according to Agence France-Presse.
In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin and Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, alleging they had been deporting Ukrainian children to Russia since invading the country.
Judge Piotr Hofmanski, president of the International Criminal Court. On Monday, the Russian interior ministry database showed that Hofmanski had been added to its wanted list, according to Russian state-run media. (Koen van Weel/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia, which is not a member of the ICC, has since insisted that the warrant for Putin is invalid and has issued arrest warrants for other ICC judges and prosecutors.
In March, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on allegation of war crimes. (Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Independent U.N.-backed human rights experts said Monday that they have turned up continued evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in their war against Ukraine.
No details were provided in the notice on Russia's allegations against Hofmanski, pictured with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Ukrainian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The alleged war crimes include torture – some of it with such "brutality" that it led to death – and rape of women aged up to 83.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
