Williamson's spokesperson:Yellow house probe still under way

The investigation is under way and we are determined to carry it out to the end, Sousa said, adding that it is still early to make forecasts when it will be finished. The spokesperson refused to comment on the allegations by Pristina daily Ekspres that the investigation is over and that it will be followed by indictments which will include some of the closest associates of Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci. We do not comment on unfounded rumors and speculations, Sousa underlined, noting that it was assessed in the early stage of the probe that it will be a lengthy and complex one, and that it could last from three to four years. The EULEX Special Investigative Task Force embarked on the investigation into the human organ trafficking in Kosovo in September 2011 focusing on the allegations contained in the report by Council of Europe Special Rapporteur Dick Marty about systematic crimes against civilians committed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1999 and 2000. In the report, Marty accused a few former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a paramilitary formation established by ethnic Albanians, including current Prime Minister of Kosovo Hasim Taci of kidnapping and murder of several hundreds civilians - Serbs, Roma and disloyal Albanians. Marty said that the civilians were taken to Albania, where their organs were harvested in improvised hospitals and then sold in the black market. Afterwards, EULEX formed a Special Investigative Task Force led by Williamson to investigate these allegations. Over 600 civilians, the majority of whom were Serbs, were kidnapped after the attack of the NATO forces on Serbia and the retreat of the Serbian armed forces from Kosovo mid-June 1999, and 529 are still registered as missing. After she stepped down from the office of prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte published the book “The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals” in which she disclosed for the first time that around 300 Serbs, Roma people and a number of disloyal Albanians were kidnapped and transported to Albania where their organs were harvested in an improvised hospital called “Yellow house” in the village of Burel and then shipped out to clinics across Europe.