Die Morina
Pristina
BIRN April 3, 2019
Kosovo police have arrested four people in the capital, Pristina,
for suspected illegal transplants and trafficking of human organs and cells.
Police
said on Wednesday, based on a warrant arrest issued by the courts: “Two men and
two women were arrested on Tuesday as suspects, all of them of Kosovo Albanian
nationality.”
The
statement read that during raids on some private clinics the police confiscated
material evidence.
“Seven
medical files, five hundred euros in cash, 20 notebooks and four mobile phones [have
been confiscated],” the report reads.
On
the decision of the prosecutor, all four suspects, after being interviewed,
were placed in custody.
Police
did not give any other details about whether the suspects are doctors, or about
those damaged.
The
authorities closed a private clinic in 2008 in Pristina where Kosovo doctors
and a Turkish medic were involved in illegal transplants and trafficking of
human organs.
The
Medicus clinic brought kidney donors to Kosovo, illegally removed their organs
and sold them to wealthy patients. The operations it carried out in 2008 earned
the clinic around 679,000 euros, the court found.
The
trial of the Kosovo doctors in that case will continue after the Court of
Appeals in Pristina in November ordered another retrial of the owner of the
Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, and its head anaesthetist, Sokol Hajdini –
overturning the previous verdict handed down in 2018 convicting them of human
trafficking and organised crime.
The
first retrial on this case started in July 2017 after a Supreme Court ruling
overturned the original verdict on the basis of procedural irregularities.
Selling
human parts is a lucrative business worldwide.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.