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On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Abdoulaye Seye,

OFAC froze their U.S.-based assets and barred them from accessing the U.S. financial system.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Abdoulaye Seye, the ICC prosecutor.

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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ordered the freezing of their U.S.-based assets and will bar them from accessing the U.S. financial system. From today through Sept. 17, however, the ICC officials will be allowed to conduct limited transactions to settle pending operations.

These arbitrary measures have evident motivations, given that Akane continues to perform institutional duties at the court, while Seye has supervised investigations into the financing of Israeli settlements in the West Bank or the supply of weapons to settlers.

“The Trump administration has been clear: The ICC is a corrupt and deeply politicized supranational tribunal that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate. We will not tolerate its attack on state sovereignty,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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In 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump openly declared war on the International Criminal Court. In February, he signed an executive order that characterized various ICC initiatives as a national security threat.

His order focused on ICC investigations into the U.S. military in places such as Afghanistan and the ICC arrest warrants issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza.

So far, the Trump administration has sanctioned ICC prosecutors and judges, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights In Palestine Francesca Albanese, and three Palestinian human rights organizations.

The U.S. has never signed the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court. Therefore, Washington does not recognize the ICC jurisdiction to prosecute its citizens. The Zionist state has maintained the same position.

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