The International Criminal Court said it had contacted Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son, Seif al-Islam, informally, warning that he would be seeking asylum in a country which was not party to the ICC’s founding document, the Rome S

The International Criminal Court said it had contacted Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son, Seif al-Islam, informally, warning that he would be seeking asylum in a country which was not party to the ICC's founding document, the Rome Statute.

"Through intermediaries, we have informal contact with Seif," the prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a statement issued at the court's headquarters in The Hague.
"The Office of the Prosecutor has made it clear that if he surrenders to the ICC, he has the right to be heard in court, he is innocent until proven guilty," Moreno-Ocampo said. "The judges will decide."

After learning that a group of mercenaries had offered to move Seif to an African state not bound to hand him over to the ICC, his office was "exploring the possibility" of intercepting any plane carrying him to make an arrest.
Seif, 39, and Gaddafi's security chief and brother-in-law Abdullah al-Senussi, 62, are the most wanted fugitives from the slain despot's inner circle.

They are wanted by the ICC on charges of crimes against humanity, committed after the start of the uprising against Gaddafi's regime in mid-February. The ICC issued arrest warrants against Gaddafi, Seif and Senussi on June 27.
Interpol issued "red notices" for their arrest on September 9.

Following Gaddafii's death, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble and Moreno-Ocampo issued a joint statement last week urging Seif to turn himself in, promising him safe passage to The Hague.