ICC Chief Prosecutor Khan cleared of sexual misconduct by judges: Report
Al Jazeera
Karim Khan has denied the allegations and took voluntary leave from his position in May.
Judges have cleared the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, of all wrongdoing after an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct, Middle East Eye reports.
Middle East Eye says that a panel of three judges submitted a confidential report to the court’s oversight body, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), on March 9.
According to two diplomatic sources who read the report and two other diplomatic sources briefed on it, the judges unanimously found that the information presented in a report by the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Service (OIOS) “did not establish any misconduct or breach of duty”.
“The Panel is unanimously of the opinion that the factual findings by OIOS do not establish misconduct or breach of duty under the relevant framework,” the report concluded, according to the sources.
The OIOS investigation was commissioned by the head of the ASP in November 2024 after a member of Khan’s office accused the prosecutor of sexual misconduct.
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