The Russian authorities have formally requested the Netherlands and "other countries" to proceed with the detention and delivery of nine officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC), including its president, Tomoko Akane, in compliance with sentences issued in absentia by courts of the Eurasian country.
In a statement, the Prosecutor's Office of Russia details that among the individuals whose extradition is requested are, in addition to Akane, former Attorney General Imran Khan and the former president of the body Piotr Hofmanski, as well as vice presidents Rosario Salvatore Aitala and René Alapini-Gansou.
The list of those sought by Moscow is completed by judges Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godínez, and Haikel ben Mahfoud, along with former ICC judge Bertram Schmitt. For the moment, the international court has not issued any public reaction to the requests made by the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
All of them were convicted by a Russian court in December 2025, after being included in a list of wanted persons following the ICC's decision to issue arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the presidential commissioner for children's rights of the Russian Federation, Maria Alekseievna Lvova-Belova, for alleged war crimes related to the forced deportation of Ukrainian minors from occupied areas in Ukraine.
The initiative of the Russian Prosecutor's Office has already been the subject of criticism from the Government of Japan, which has described the request for the detention and extradition of Akane as "regrettable," according to the news agency Jiji Press.
"We will maintain contact with the ICC and other member states and will respond appropriately to unjust measures," declared the deputy spokesperson of the Japanese Government, Masanao Ozaki, who has raised the possibility of filing a formal complaint against Russia regarding this decision, to which Moscow has not offered additional comments.