> or take the cases to court just to drop it so they can tell the ICC that they did make an attempt to prosecute, which is a loophole that disallows the ICC to

> or take the cases to court just to drop it so they can tell the ICC that they did make an attempt to prosecute, which is a loophole that disallows the ICC to take up those cases. As an aside, it should be noted that this wouldn't be sufficient to trigger complimentary at the ICC if its obvious the investigation was not in good faith. The icc can ignore any domestic investigation it believes was not a serious attempt to investigate. Like it'd be a pretty silly court if you could get out of everything by running your own sham investigation.