Es stand schon als Vermutung in Raum, aber nun scheint es belegt zu sein. Ein brit.-isr. Anwalt, mit engen Verbindungen zu Netanyahu (aktuell Anwalt des Faschisten Duterte vor dem #ICC) hat den Chefankläger #KarimKhan erpresst.
Er habe die Drohung übermittelt, dass Khan vernichtet werden würde, wenn er nicht darauf verzichte die Haftbefehle gegen #Netanyahu auszustellen.
»ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'«
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ICC lawyer linked to Netanyahu advisor warned Khan to drop war crimes probe or be 'destroyed'
The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court was warned in May that if arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were not withdrawn, he and the ICC would be "destroyed".David Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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in reply to stephie • • •»But Kaufman warned that if it emerged the chief prosecutor was applying for more arrest warrants, for far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over their promotion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, then "all options would be off the table".«
»Kaufman told Khan: "They will destroy you and they will destroy the court."
Khan and his wife, who also attended the meeting, both understood this to be a threat, according to the note of the meeting seen by MEE.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»Kaufman asked Khan if a recent report that he was preparing warrant applications for Israeli suspects related to the West Bank was true.
The conversation took place before it was reported that Khan’s office was preparing further arrest warrants for far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich over their promotion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»Khan did not respond to Kaufman's question but asked why Israel did not "proceed with complementarity", which would entail investigating the alleged war crimes in the domestic courts.
He said the Israeli attorney general "can easily look into this".
Kaufman said this was impossible, but told him there could be a "non-criminal, non-investigative process" and Khan could give the evidence he had to that "Israeli process".«
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in reply to stephie • • •»But he warned that these options would be "off the table" if it emerged that Khan had applied for more warrants.
According to the note, Kaufman also told Khan that if the existing warrants were not withdrawn, or if he applied for more warrants, "they will destroy you and they will destroy the court".
The note records that after the meeting, Khan's wife, who is also a lawyer, said to him, "That was a clear threat." Khan agreed.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»MEE has been told by multiple sources that on 16 March 2024, Khan's extensive team of lawyers and researchers had decided they would be in a position to apply for warrants by the end of April.
On 25 March, Khan informed the US administration of his decision and forewarned them the warrants would be applied for by the end of April.
Over the following two months, pressure on Khan mounted.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»On 23 April David Cameron, then the British foreign secretary, threatened in a phone call with Khan that the UK would defund and withdraw from the ICC if the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.
Last month MEE revealed details of the call, in which Cameron told Khan applying for the warrants would be like "dropping a hydrogen bomb".«
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in reply to stephie • • •»It was on 29 April 2024, over a month after the decision to apply for warrants was made, that one of Khan’s staff made harassment allegations against him.
The allegations were referred to the court’s Internal Oversight Mechanism (IOM), its investigative body, on 3 May.
But an investigation was closed days later after the woman said she did not want to cooperate with it.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»This means that when Khan announced he was applying for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant on 20 May, there was no investigation against him.
Months later, in October, as speculation began to increase that ICC judges would soon issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, an anonymous account on social media platform X began circulating details of the sexual misconduct allegations against Khan.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»According to the WSJ an anonymous source also sent information about the allegations to journalists in an email that contained the phone numbers of the complainant and an advisor to Khan, Thomas Lynch, next to the Hebrew word for telephones.
The IOM then opened another investigation, which was closed in early November.
Two investigations into the allegations had been opened and closed when the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services opened its own external investigation, which is ongoing.«
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in reply to stephie • • •»Since being subjected to sanctions by the US in February, Khan has had his American visa revoked and his wife and children have been banned from travelling to the country. His bank accounts have also been frozen in the UK.«
»If the US sanctions the court as an institution, as some experts believe it might, it would prevent many banks and software companies from dealing with it - potentially crippling the ICC's ability to function.«