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Mafia
16/12 01:13 CET
Kosovo’s EU-backed police force said on Wednesday it will investigate suspected links between the country’s prime minister and an alleged organ trafficking ring.
But investigators say they need more evidence before they can probe accusations made in a Council of Europe report that PM Hashim Thaci ran a mafia-style crime organisation.
“We encourage everyone to come forward with those evidences to the appropriate authorities,” said EULEX spokeswoman Karin Limdal.
The report, authored by Swiss senator Dick Marty, says the Kosovo Liberation Army shot dead civilian detainees during its war for independence from Serbia then sold their organs on the black market.
The Kosovo government swiftly rejected the report, which also accused Thaci of heading a group within the ethnic-Albanian guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) that set up a network of unofficial prisons in Albania.
Hashim Thaci previously served as the KLA’s political leader during the 1998-1999 conflict.
He became prime minister of Kosovo after its split from Serbia in 2008.
But investigators say they need more evidence before they can probe accusations made in a Council of Europe report that PM Hashim Thaci ran a mafia-style crime organisation.
“We encourage everyone to come forward with those evidences to the appropriate authorities,” said EULEX spokeswoman Karin Limdal.
The report, authored by Swiss senator Dick Marty, says the Kosovo Liberation Army shot dead civilian detainees during its war for independence from Serbia then sold their organs on the black market.
The Kosovo government swiftly rejected the report, which also accused Thaci of heading a group within the ethnic-Albanian guerrilla Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) that set up a network of unofficial prisons in Albania.
Hashim Thaci previously served as the KLA’s political leader during the 1998-1999 conflict.
He became prime minister of Kosovo after its split from Serbia in 2008.
read more: reuters
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