Arrested ex-KLA member involved in organ trafficking and war crimes

The arrest was carried out "with police out in force", news agency Tanjug reports.

The crimes that Geci is suspected of were committed by the now disbanded KLA in the Klina-Malisevo-Glogovac triangle of Kosovo, in the Drenica region.

While a short EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, police statement said that they "carried out a house search and arrested a male suspect in connection with war crimes allegedly committed between April and June 1999," the Albanian language media in Pristina identified the person as Sabit Geci.

Serbian B92 tv sources, however, tie the case to executions and disappearance of Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians in northern Albania.

B92 TV's documentary "The Secrets of the Yellow House" explored the organ trafficking case, and showed exclusive footage of camps in northern Albania where it is believed the non-Albanians kidnapped in Kosovo by the KLA were imprisoned and murdered.

Serbia's War Crimes Prosecution is investigating the case, and has mentioned Geci in connection to the construction of a prisoner camp near Drenica.

Deputy Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric reacted to the news by saying that the man arrested in Priština was suspected of committing war crimes against non-Albanians in a camp near the town of Kukes, in northern Albania.

Vekaric explained that the prosecution also suspect Geci was involved in organ trafficking an crimes in another camp, located near the town of Likovac.

The Serbian prosecution launched the probe into the case, known informally as the Yellow House, after one of the structures in northern Albania where the organ removal is believed to have taken place.

The case was brought into the focus both of the media and the judiciary when former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte mentioned it in her book published in early 2008.

Council of Europe's Dick Marty is also conducting an investigation into the allegations.