The Hague (EFE).- The International Criminal Court (ICC) has authorized this Tuesday prosecutor Karim Khan to resume his investigation into the alleged commission of crimes against humanity in Venezuela, considering that the “internal criminal proceedings” in Caracas do not sufficiently reflect the scope” of the case and there are “unexplained periods of inactivity”.
The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber noted that the focus of internal investigations “appears generally to be on direct and/or lower-level perpetrators” and considered that “limited investigative measures have been taken and that, in many cases, there appears to have been periods of unexplained investigative inactivity”.
Although he sees that Venezuela is taking “some investigative measures”, he considers that “its internal criminal proceedings do not sufficiently reflect the scope of the investigation” as a whole, especially with regard to crimes of persecution and of a sexual nature.