Organ trafficking case investigator to meet with PM

Organ trafficking case investigator to meet with PM

BELGRADE -- Clint Williamson is visiting Belgrade on Tuesday and and will meet Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, it has been announced.

The American prosecutor heads an investigation team of the EU that is looking into allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo.

Williamson was in Priština on Monday and according to media reports, he should publish his report on potential illegal activities concerning organ trafficking toward the end of the month.

According to Priština and Belgrade media, the report by international investigators led by Williamson should be released in Brussels on July 28.

Williamson, who has been heading the special unit for investigation of cases mentioned in Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dick Marty's report on organized crime and organ trafficking, should end his mandate in August after he releases the results of the three-year investigation.

Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević said earlier that he is pleased with the course of the investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo, adding that, in his opinion, the investigation proved that the crimes were committed and the only thing remaining is to find the perpetrators.

Vukčević also noted that these are war crimes, for which there is no statute of limitations.

Dick Marty's report concerns allegations that members of the ethnic Albanian KLA in 1999 and 2000 kidnapped Serb and other civilians in Kosovo, and illegally imprisoned them in Albania to harvest their organs and sell them in the international black market.

The case is informally known in the Serbian media as "the Yellow House case" - after one...