Money from sold body organs ended on accounts in Switzerland
Accounts at banks in European countries suspected to have been opened for depositing money from sale of human body organs may be evidence leading to Hashim Thaci marked by Dick Marty, the EU rapporteur, as a boss of a criminal net which was dealing with trafficking with human body organs, people and arms, ‘Blic' learns.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, December 17, 2010
These bank accounts were traced by Serbian war crimes prosecution but by American FBI as well. The FBI launched an investigation over financing of extreme Islamist groups after September 11, 2001. According to the FBI those accounts were sometimes opened on personal names, but frequently on the names of faked humanitarian organizations behind criminal activities were hiding. Some of such organizations are ‘Help for Kosovo', ‘Medicare', ‘Caravan', ‘Al Haramain, ‘Taibah International'...
Dick Marty's draft report on body organs trafficking was yesterday adopted by the Council of Europe Committee for legal issues and human rights. Marty said to have offered enough evidence for launching of a serious and independent investigation on the matter. He marked Thaci as the leader of the so-called ‘Drenica group' which controlled most of the illegal activities in Albania. According to Serbian BIA, at the beginning of the war this group was involved in trafficking of arms, stolen vehicles, excise goods, cigarettes and fuel. The Thaci family established connections with the Albanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and Czech mafia.
According to Dick Marty's report, Thaci took larger part of the money collected for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). According to the BIA, in Kosovo there arrived 900,000,000 German Marks from 1996 to 1999. American DEA estimates that Albanian mafia is the second strongest mafia in the world. According to the Serbian BIA even 90 percent of heroin smuggled in Europe goes via Kosovo. Marty says in his report that Thaci's group was smuggling heroin.
The Committee of the Council of Europe for legal issues yesterday requested launching of international and national investigations over missing people, trafficking with human body organs, corruption and secret uniting of organized criminal groups and political circles in Kosovo which Marty mentioned in his report.
According to the report adopted in Paris, the Committee has announced that ‘numerous concrete indications' confirm that the KLA held in the north of Albania captured Serbs and Kosovo Albanians who were victims of humiliating acts before they were killed.
Numerous indications confirm that shortly after the war was over, body organs were removed from some of the prisoners in a clinic in the territory of Albania near the place called Fushe Kruje. They were used for transplantations abroad, the announcement by the Committee reads.
