🔴The Luxembourg government is allowing a state bank to act against the International Criminal Court, the Luxembourg Times reports.
The incident is yet another example of the US extrajudicial weaponization of the global financial system against dissent.
Since 2025, the Trump administration has placed sanctions on eleven ICC judges and prosecutors who led the effort of obtaining an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
While no sanctions have been placed on the ICC directly, the Luxembourg Spuerkeess decided to close two accounts held by the ICC to avoid potential regulatory repercussions.
The sanctions are not enacted via Congressional approval but by executive order of the US president, prohibiting any US service to do business with sanctioned ICC personnel, directly limiting the ICC's operations through the cancelation of necessary services, such as email and accounting software.
While the US officially holds no authority over international banks, its position as an economic superpower can effectively lead to the exclusion from global financial markets if its orders are not followed suit.
The US was originally a signatory to the Rome Statute which established the ICC in 1998 under Bill Clinton, though the signature was never ratified.
In 2002, the US formally "unsigned" the treaty under President Bush and established the American Service-Members' Protection Act, more commonly known as The Hague Invasion Act, which prevents US agencies from granting assistance to the ICC, and gives the US president all necessary mans to prevent the prosecution of US citizens by the ICC – including military action.
