A European investigator has issued a report claiming civilian detainees of the Kosovo Liberation Army were shot to death in Albania so their kidneys could sold on the black market.
The report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, two years in the making, suggests Kosovo’s U.S.-backed prime minister was once the “boss” of a criminal underworld behind the grisly trade.
The report, which cites FBI and other intelligence sources, has been obtained by the British newspaper the Guardian. It names Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci as having over the last decade exerted “violent control” over the heroin trade.
According to the Guardian, members of Thaci’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.
The alleged crimes occurred after the Kosovo war ended in 1999.
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