Kenya: Ocampo Revelations Exposing Hypocrisy of ICC, Opponents

16 October 2017

Revelations that Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, was compromised by people who were suspected to be war criminals, should interest Kenyans because they do raise the question of whether the Kenyan cases at the ICC were similarly undermined.

Documents leaked by Mediapart, a French investigative website, and the German magazine Der Spiegel suggest that Ocampo may have been bribed by a Libyan billionaire who was involved in their civil war and that he may have interfered with the court's investigations by revealing confidential information about Muammar Gaddafi to the French Government.

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