Russia puts another ICC judge who issued warrant for Putin on wanted list

By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Interior Ministry on Wednesday put another judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on its wanted list.

"Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez is wanted for a criminal offense," says a notice published on the Interior Ministry's online database, without elaborating on the charges.

Godinez was one of the ICC judges who issued arrest warrants for Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova in March, accusing them of committing the "war crime of unlawful deportation of children" from Ukraine to Russia.

Moscow denies accusations, arguing that children were evacuated from the war zone to save their lives and with the consent of their legal representatives.

Earlier, Moscow had placed on the wanted list ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, judges Rosario Aytala, Tomoko Akane, Piotr Hofmanski, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza, and Bertram Schmitt, all of whom took part in the case against Putin and Lvova-Belova.