Judges in a trial of alleged organ trafficking in Kosovo have said they will call Council of Europe envoy and ex-Swiss senator Dick Marty as a witness. Marty was the author of a report in December implicating high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army KLA in the murder of Serbian and Kosovo Albanian prisoners and the selling of their organs. In the current trial in Pristina, seven suspects led by former Kosovo health secretary Ilir Rrecaj and Lutfi Dervishi, a prominent Pristina urologist, are accused of taking part in an illegal organ-trafficking network and illegal transplants at the Medicus clinic. In his report on wartime abuses Marty had alleged that senior KLA commanders, including the current prime minister, Hashim Thaci, had been involved in organised crime and organ trafficking during and after the war. The report set out claims that organs were taken from prisoners, many of them Serbs, held by the independence-seeking KLA rebels in Albania in the late s.
Dick Marty to testify in organ-trafficking case - SWI valeriemillett.com
Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime. The report of the two-year inquiry, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by the Guardian. Legal proceedings began in a Pristina district court today into a case of alleged organ trafficking discovered by police in That case — in which organs are said to have been taken from impoverished victims at a clinic known as Medicus — is said by the report to be linked to Kosovo Liberation Army KLA organ harvesting in It comes at a crucial period for Kosovo, which on Sunday held its first elections since declaring independence from Serbia in
Dick Marty to Testify in Kosovo Organ Trafficking Case
Former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty this week spoke publicly for the first time in years about his explosive December report on illegal human organ trafficking in Kosovo. I discovered that governments lie and manipulate information, that people say one thing and do another. They talk about human rights on Sunday and on Monday they violate them. For Marty, justice on this issue is an illusion.
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