from Sputnik News:
A high-ranking ICC official, Nicolas Herrera, secretly financed the sanctioned UPC armed group in the Central African Republic, according to court materials obtained by Sputnik.
Nicolas Herrera, a high-ranking official in the Registry Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC), secretly recruited and financed the Union for Peace (UPC) in the Central African Republic (CAR) armed group, led by local warlord Ali Darassa, to capture ICC target Joseph Kony, by using US-based NGO employee Joseph Martin Figueira as a covert intermediary, thereby violating the ICC’s financial accountability standards by funding an armed group, according to a Sputnik correspondent’s analysis of public court records.
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The conviction of Joseph Martin Figueira, a Belgian-Portuguese anthropologist found guilty of espionage and collaborating with militants in the Central African Republic (CAR) in November, has uncovered a complex financial trail linking ICC staff to the country’s armed militants, evidence that undermines the court’s core principles.
The analysis of WhatsApp messages, seized from Figueira’s phone, revealed that ICC official Nicolas Herrera did not just negotiate operations with the UPC armed group, but provided them with repeated, untraceable financial and logistical support.
Herrera’s first priority was to assure discretion, repeatedly instructing Figueira to handle the payments. In a message dated August 20, 2023, Herrera asked Figueira: “If we send money do you want to transmit it to them? So it doesn’t come from us,” a direct instruction to evade institutional traceability.
