On Wednesday, Russia announced that it has added another judge to the International Criminal Court’s wanted list. The court is attempting to have President Vladimir Putin arrested in connection with the crisis in Ukraine.
The Costa Rican judge Sergio Gerarde Ugaldo Godinez sits on the ICC’s Hague-based panel. “Wanted in the framework of a criminal investigation,” said a notice in the interior ministry’s database.
Details on the accusations made against Godinez were not included in the notice.
Regarding the war crime charge of forcibly deporting Ukrainian children, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest order for Putin in March.
Similar accusations led the ICC to issue an arrest order for Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian president’s commissioner for children’s rights.
Russia, a country that does not belong to the International Criminal Court, maintains that the warrant against Putin is “void”.
However, because ICC member nations are required to carry out the court’s warrants, the Russian leader’s movements overseas have been restricted as a result of the warrant.
Putin declined to attend the G20 meeting in September in India and the BRICS summit in August in South Africa, citing his desire to avoid “problems for our friends”.
Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, and several judges had earlier had arrest orders issued by Russia. It declared in September that Piotr Hofmanski, the head of the ICC, was wanted.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) established a branch office in Ukraine in September in an attempt to hold Moscow responsible for its offensive in the Western-backed
