Russia seeks extradition of ICC officials from Netherlands, others

Russia's Prosecutor General has formally requested the Netherlands and other states to arrest and extradite ICC President Piotr Hofmański, First Vice-President Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, and Prosecutor Karim Khan, who were convicted in absentia in Russia. This escalates Moscow's confrontation with the ICC following the Court's arrest warrant for President Putin. The requests are unlikely to be honored by the Netherlands, but signal a deliberate legal and diplomatic escalation against the ICC's legitimacy.