Organ case investigation team "expected to start work soon"

A EULEX spokesman stated on Tuesday that recruitment of members of a special team in charge of probing human organ trade allegations "was being finalized". Nicholas Hawton added that the team should start operating soon. Organ case investigation team "expected to start work soon" “Recruitment is being finalized. We expect the task force to start its work shortly, building on the preliminary investigation which EULEX has started,” Hawton said in a written statement. He added that EULEX was "taking the necessary steps for the task force to proceed promptly with its investigation. We have received assurances of support from relevant actors in both Tirana and Belgrade." In the report prepared for the sitting of the UN Security Council scheduled for August 29, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the constitution of special EULEX team for investigation into human organ trafficking, noting that the team would become operative by the end of the summer. According to the report, the team would be based in Brussels or Pristina. The report of the special rapporteur of the Council of Europe (CoE), Dick Marty, published in late 2010, named members of the ethnic Albanian KLA as perpetrators of kidnappings of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the province, and the subsequent trade in their body parts in the black organ market.

Organ case investigation team "expected to start work soon"

“Recruitment is being finalized. We expect the task force to start its work shortly, building on the preliminary investigation which EULEX has started,” Hawton said in a written statement.

He added that EULEX was "taking the necessary steps for the task force to proceed promptly with its investigation. We have received assurances of support from relevant actors in both Tirana and Belgrade."

In the report prepared for the sitting of the UN Security Council scheduled for August 29, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the constitution of special EULEX team for investigation into human organ trafficking, noting that the team would become operative by the end of the summer.

According to the report, the team would be based in Brussels or Priština.

The report of the special rapporteur of the Council of Europe (CoE), Dick Marty, published in late 2010, named members of the ethnic Albanian KLA as perpetrators of kidnappings of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the province, and the subsequent trade in their body parts in the black organ market.