Former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba is demanding $76.5M in compensation from the ICC after his war crimes acquittal last year
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a successful businessman and opposition politician before his arrest, was acquitted in May last year of crimes committed by members of a militia under his command. July 24, 2018.
Lawyers said Bemba's assets – including seven planes and three villas in Portugal – were "simply allowed to rot" by the court while he spent a decade behind bars in The Hague. Bemba returned to his homeland after his acquittal but was barred from running for the opposition in Congolese elections because of the bribery conviction.
Haynes pointed out that the demand for $76.5 million "is just less than half the annual budget of the court."
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