Two Kenyan lawyers who have been on the International Criminal Court (ICC) radar will know their fate on Wednesday.
Lawyers Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett are wanted by the ICC for allegedly trying to influence ICC witnesses.
The ICC issued warrants for their arrest on March 10, 2015.
The International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber II while issuing the warrant said they have reason to believe the two Kenyan lawyers were criminally culpable of offences against the administration of justice by trying to influence the prosecution witnesses.
The warrant against the two Kenyan lawyers list six counts for Gicheru while Bett, has four counts all bordering on witness bribery.
Gicheru and Bett moved to the High Court where they got temporal relief after an order was granted stopping their arrest.
They told Justice Luka Kimaru that warrants against them was flawed because the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko did not make an in-depth evaluation to ascertain if they merit to be executed or not.
The two also told Justice Kimaru that the case should be tried in Kenya.
Between April 2013 and September 2013, the warrant cites, the two tried to bribe witnesses in the ICC case against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto.
They are alleged to have offered or tried to offer between sh500, 000 to sh5 million to six prosecution witnesses with the motive to persuade them from testifying before the ICC.
Under Article 70 of the Rome Statute, bribery is an offense.
By Pharis Kinyua. He’s an online Journalist and an author for Jamhuri News