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Petr Hofmanski

Not in RussiaChecked October 18, 2026

Petr Hofmanski, born 1956, Moscow. Charges: Article 299, Russian Criminal Code; Article 301 part 2, Russian Criminal Code; Article 360 part 2, Russian Criminal Code; “The case concerning the holding of Putin and Lvova-Belova criminally liable”. Sentenced on December 12, 2025. Status: not in Russia.

In brief

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Sentence

Imprisonment (in absentia)

Verdict December 12, 2025

Upheld March 23, 2026

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to the investigation, "in order to complicate international relations, he joined an organised group to commit premeditated crimes against the Russian Federation and its citizens", in violation of the international legal custom on jurisdictional immunity of state officials, including their absolute sovereign immunity from foreign criminal jurisdiction (confirmed by a decision of the UN International Court of Justice in February 2002), as well as in the absence of legal, reasonable grounds and objective information, made a decision to bringing criminal proceedings against Putin and Lvova-Belova for committing war crimes, specifically for the deportation of children from the occupied territory of Ukraine to Russia, and participated in the collegial adoption of "knowingly unlawful decisions to arrest" Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova in states parties to the Rome Statute, "by issuing the relevant arrest warrants."

Latest event

March 23, 2026 — appeal

The court upheld the verdict.

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Timeline

  1. · Appeal ruling

    upheld

  2. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict

  3. · Persecution begins

    The case concerning the holding of Putin and Lvova-Belova criminally liable

  4. · Preventive measure: arrest in absentia

Criminal case

The case concerning the holding of Putin and Lvova-Belova criminally liable

Case number
2-0097/2025

Other defendants in the case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

Former President of the International Criminal Court. A case was brought against him for prosecution of knowingly innocent persons, coupled with their conviction for serious crimes, unlawful detention and attempted assault on an internationally protected person, in connection with the prosecution of Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Comissioner for Children's Rights. On 12 December 2025, Hofmanski was sentenced in absentia to imprisonment.

All fields of the record
Citizenship
Poland
Preventive measures
arrest in absentia

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