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A majority of members on the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday backed a motion stating that Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan may have committed some form of misconduct, diplomatic sources with knowledge of the matter told Middle East Eye.
The preliminary vote by the 21-member executive bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) comes less than a month after a panel of judges appointed by the same body concluded that a UN investigation had not established any “misconduct or breach of duty” by Khan.
However, Middle East Eye can reveal that a group of predominantly western and European states voted on Wednesday to disregard the opinion of the judges and to make their own assessment based on the evidence presented in the UN report.
The 15 states that backed the motion are Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland.
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