Saif al-Islam has not been seen in public since late August
International prosecutors accept had "informal contact" with the son of collapsed ex-Libyan baton Muammar Gaddafi.
The International Criminal Cloister (ICC) said it had captivated talks - through intermediaries - with Saif al-Islam about his accessible surrender.
Prosecutors fatigued that Gaddafi's son, who is capital for crimes adjoin humanity, would get a fair trial.
Saif al-Islam, who was already the accepted almsman to his father, has been in ambuscade for months.
Recent letters claimed he was in a accompany branch adjoin Libya's arid apprenticed with Niger, area added Gaddafi allies accept fled.
But those letters accept not been confirmed, and the ICC said it did not apperceive area he was.
Zimbabwe-bound?
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said in a account that the ICC capital him to face trial.
"Through intermediaries, we accept breezy acquaintance with Saif al-Islam. The appointment of the prosecutor has fabricated it bright that if he surrenders to the ICC, he has the appropriate to be heard in court, he is innocent until accurate guilty. The board will decide," the account said.
The ICC afterwards denied that any affectionate of accord was getting abiding with Saif al-Islam, affirmation that the ambition of the talks was to ensure an arrest accreditation was agitated out.
An ICC arrest accreditation issued for Saif al-Islam in June accuses him of annihilation and persecution.
The certificate claims that he played an capital allotment in analytical attacks on civilians in assorted Libyan cities agitated out by Gaddafi's aegis armament in February.
Mr Moreno Ocampo said the ICC had learnt "through breezy channels" that mercenaries were alms to move Saif al-Islam to a country that has not active up to the ICC's Rome statute.
Reports say Zimbabwe is a acceptable final destination for Saif al-Islam if he chooses to abscond from the ICC.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was a adept accessory of Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Moreno Ocampo's account added: "The appointment of the prosecutor is aswell exploring the achievability to ambush any even aural the airspace of a accompaniment affair in adjustment to accomplish an arrest."
ICC difficulties
The ICC has no badge force of its own, but affiliate countries are accurately apprenticed to accomplish its warrants.
However, the believability of the cloister has been alleged into catechism in contempo years in Africa.
Many of the continent's governments accept argued that the ICC disproportionately focuses on crimes in their countries.
Those claims accept led the African Union to admonish its associates that they should no best feel apprenticed by the ICC's rules.
Member countries including Malawi, Chad and Kenya accept all defied the cloister by declining to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has a abiding arrest accreditation adjoin him.
The accreditation issued adjoin Saif al-Islam came alongside warrants for intelligence arch Abdullah al-Sanussi, who is still believed to be on the run, and Muammar Gaddafi.
The above Libyan leader, who was deposed in August afterwards six months of civilian conflict, died from gunshot wounds endure anniversary afterwards angry angry in the city-limits of Sirte.
The Civic Transitional Council (NTC) is now administering political ameliorate advised to advance to civic elections aural eight months.
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