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To the international anti—corruption court and somebody very powerful, one of these oligarchs or somebody that the oligarch has bribed gets convicted, it couldn't be fairly accused of being a partisan political prosecution. finally and briefly, judge mark wolf, you want to build this international anti—corruption court. what are the odds on that happening and how soon? and why, at 76, is this still so important to you? this is important to me because grand corruption�*s associated with the worst abuses of human rights. supporters of this court are risking their lives. yegor sobolev is fi...

Will not throw up a new honest leader, butjust more of the same? well, it's not certain that that would be the result, but there's reason to hope for it. for example, i was doing a lot of work in slovakia. slovakia has a long history of corrupt leaders. an investigative journalist was murdered and that brought into office a current administration that's truly dedicated to combating corruption. it's in battle. and in fact, that's a country that's showing a lot of interest injoining the international anti corruption court, because i believe this administration realises that people who share its ...

My guest today is the senior us districtjudge mark wolf, who is trying to establish an international anti—corruption court to bring to justice leaders who abuse their power for private gain. is this an idea whose time has come, or do we already have sufficient levers to bring the kleptocrats to court? judge mark wolf, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. why do you believe that the time has come for an international anti—corruption court, an iacc? as the chair of integrity

Mm—hm. it is our present intention to create this court outside of the united nations so there wouldn't be this opportunity for the big political powers to protect their friends and allies. so you are very closely involved in ukraine and you're obviously very distressed by what's happening to your friends in the country because of the russian war there, so given what you've just said now, that you would like to see, judge mark wolf, russians being pursued. you have said in the past that human rights abuses and financial corruption go hand—in—hand. president putin and his inner circle are...

Highest officials to account, and the oligarchs, and when they do bring a case, they're accused of partisanship. and so they have said to me, if we could refer a case to the international anti—corruption court and somebody very powerful, one of these oligarchs or somebody that the oligarch has bribed gets convicted, it couldn't be fairly accused of being a partisan political prosecution. finally and briefly, judge mark wolf, you want to build this international anti—corruption court. what are the odds on that happening and how soon? and why, at 76, is this still so important to you? this i...