MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - The Russian Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal case against the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) who issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, the committee's press service said.
"The moves taken by the judges of the International Criminal Court contain signs of crimes such as a knowingly unlawful act to remand a person in custody, as well as preparations for an attack on a representative of a foreign state entitled to international protection with the aim of complicating international relations," the press service said in a statement seen by Interfax on Monday.
A criminal case has also been opened against the ICC prosecutor on charges of prosecuting a person known to be not guilty, unlawfully accusing a person of committing a serious or a very serious crime, as well as preparations for an attack on a representative of a foreign state entitled to international protection with the aim of complicating international relations, it said.