Vekaric: Witness account is legitimate

"We would not have gone public with this if we were not one hundred percent certain it is true," said Vekaric.

"The witness has passed all kinds of tests - medical, polygraphic, spatial, temporal, he was in those places and we are certain the account is accurate," he said.
"Three deputy prosecutors have been working on this for 16 months, but we cannot base a case on one witness. We have relevant and usable material which will be of great value to any well-meaning prosecutor," said Vekaric.

Asked why the video was made public right now, Vekaric said:
"We are prosecutors and we treat victims equally, but if we take this into the political sphere, then there is no good time," he noted.

Vekaric recalled that Carla del Ponte opened the case when she was the prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, UNMIK conducted an investigation in 2005 and mentioned in its report the possibility that trafficking took place, with organs sold to Turkey and that suspects were found.
"In 2007, there was a report on the 'yellow house' (in northern Albania, where organs were harvested from Serb prisoners), and Dick Marty as a rapporteur for the Council of Europe prepared his own report. Is all this Serbian propaganda," asked Vekaric.

Kosovo's Ambassador to Croatia Valdet Sadiku also spoke for HTV. He did not want to comment on the video, but said it was indicative that charges like this were surfacing at a crucial time for Kosovo's development.

This week we completed the process of supervised independence, which is the greatest acknowledgement to the institutions, people and state of Kosovo for their achievements in the past four and a half years since the declaration of independence. We see this as another in a series of attempts to cast a shadow of doubt over the process and over Kosovo's successes, said Sadiku.