Gerasimov

Title
Gerasimov
About Defendant

Born on 8 September 1955, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation at the time of the alleged conduct

Shoigu

Title
Shoigu
About Defendant

Born on 21 May 1955, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation at the time of the alleged conduct.

Case
  • Pre-trial

The ICC warrant of arrest was issued under seal on 18 July 2017. The warrant was unsealed on 21 June 2024. The suspect is still at large.

Next steps: Until Iyad Ag Ghaly is arrested and transferred to the seat of the Court in The Hague, the case will remain in the Pre-Trial stage. The ICC does not try individuals unless they are present in the courtroom.: Until Iyad Ag Ghaly is arrested and transferred to the seat of the Court in The Hague, the case will remain in the Pre-Trial stage. The ICC does not try individuals unless they are present in the courtroom.

Iyad Ag Ghaly

Title
Iyad Ag Ghaly
About Defendant

Mr Ghaly, also known as "Abou Fadl”, was born in the Kidal region, is of Malian nationality, of Tuareg ethnicity, and a member of the Ifoghas tribe. There are reasonable grounds to believe that he would be the undisputed leader of Ansar Eddine, which at the time had control of Timbuktu, Mali, jointly with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ("AQIM").

Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov

Title
Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov
About Defendant

Born 4 April 1962, Admiral in the Russian Navy, who at the relevant time was the Commander of the Black Sea Fleet.

Sergei Ivanovich Kobylash

Title
Sergei Ivanovich Kobylash
About Defendant

Born on 1 April 1965, Lieutenant General in the Russian Armed Forces, who at the relevant time was the Commander of the Long-Range Aviation of the Aerospace Force.

Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova

Title
Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova
About Defendant

Born on 25 October 1984, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation.

Nouradine

Title
Nouradine
About Defendant

Former Minister of Security, Emigration, Immigration and Public Order between 31 March and 22 August 2013, and the founder of the Convention des Patriotes pour la Justice et la Paix – Fondamentale (CPJP-F)

Arrest warrant: 7 January 2019; unsealed on 28 July 2022

Mindzaev

Title
Mindzaev
About Defendant

National of Russia, born on 28 September 1955 in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia; previously a senior police officer with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and, from 2005 until at least 31 October 2008, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the de facto South Ossetian administration .

Arrest warrant: issued under seal on 24 June 2022 ; redacted version: 30 June 2022