Albanian prosecution acquainted with available evidence on KLA organ trade
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic presented on Monday to his Albanian counterpart Ina Rama available evidence on the case of the KLA organ trade
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The meeting was described by the Serbian side as "very constructive, regardless of our different stands which have a political, rather than a process-legal dimension".
The Serbian [rosecution launched the investigation following the claims by former ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte in her book entitled "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", in which she described that the Hague-based prosecution had obtained information that kidneys and other organs had been taken out of the bodies of the Serbs that had gone missing in Kosovo in 1999, which had then been smuggled and sold to foreign clients.
The spokesman of the prosecutor's office Bruno Vekaric pointed out that the participants of the meeting had diametrically opposed stands when it came to the determined facts and evaluated evidence they had been presented.
The spokesman could not say whether authorised Albanian bodies would launch an investigation into the case on the basis of the presented proof, but said that "today, they were presented the facts for the first time in this form - with all relevant sites, issues and our demands that we want them to act upon."
They keep insisting on Del Ponte's report from 2005, which is why they hold that there are no grounds for launching criminal proceedings, "but today, we brought with us much more than that," Vekaric stressed.
