Kosovo PM is head of human organ and arms ring, Council of Europe reports

The Grauniad ^ | Dec 14, 2010 | Paul Lewis

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Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime.

Hashim Thaçi is identified as "the boss" of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the run-up to the 1999 Kosovo war, and has held powerful sway over the country's government since.

The report of the two-year inquiry, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by the Guardian. It names Thaçi as having over the last decade exerted "violent control" over the heroin trade.

Figures from Thaçi's inner circle are accused of secretly taking captives across the border into Albania after the war, where a few Serbs are said to have been murdered for their kidneys, which were sold on the black market.

Legal proceedings began in a Pristina district court today into a case of alleged organ trafficking discovered by police in 2008. That case – in which organs are said to have been taken from impoverished victims at a clinic known as Medicus – is said by the report to be linked to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) organ harvesting in 2000.

It comes at a crucial period for Kosovo, which on Sunday held its first elections since declaring independence from Serbia in 2008. Thaçi claimed victory in the election and has been seeking to form a coalition with opposition parties.

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Albanian Mafia $$$$$$$$$ stuffed into the right US political campaign coffers! It couldn't be more obvious!

Albanian Mafia are small fry. The bankster elite is the more likely culprit.

[Texas Fossil]

Understood and Agreed.

[Bokababe]

"Albanian Mafia are small fry. The bankster elite is the more likely culprit."

No doubt. George Soros was also up to his dirty neck in it.

But the line between bloodthirsty drug-dealing gangsters and bloodthirsty option-dealing banksters has become virtually non-existent. The only difference is that the gangsters actually get their hands and money dirty, while the banksters and politicians launder their money and their image for them -- of course, for a fee.

[eleni121]

Let's send more billions to these butcher muslims to kill more Christians.

Most of us in FR knew knew about organ trafficking and far worse for years...now that it is coming out in the open we need to reverse course and allow Serbia to take over the artificially created state of Kosovo and return it to its rightful owners.

Time is of the essence.