EULEX “competent” to run investigation

EULEX is competent and capable of investigating Dick Marty’s organ trade allegations, EULEX Justice Component Chief Silvio Bonfigli has stated.

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EULEX is competent and capable of investigating Dick Marty’s organ trade allegations, EULEX Justice Component Chief Silvio Bonfigli has stated. He also said that preliminary investigation was underway. EULEX “competent” to run investigation “EULEX is already conducting a preliminary investigation (into the allegations made in the report). When perpetrators and victims are from Kosovo, EULEX has jurisdiction and our jurisdiction is exclusive when it is about war crimes and organized crime,” he stressed. Bonfigli is today coming to Belgrade where he will take part in technical talks with Justice Ministry representatives about improvement of regional cooperation in the field of judiciary and combat against organized crime. However, the European official says the Kosovo institutions are not ready to deal with war crimes but he believes that this will change in the future. Pointing out that EULEX was prosecuting war crimes committed outside Kosovo, Bonfigli rejected allegations that the mission did not have jurisdiction to conduct the investigation outside Kosovo, including Albania where organs of kidnapped Serbs were allegedly removed. “We are currently prosecuting the cases in which crimes were committed outside Kosovo, that we also have jurisdiction of, so EULEX definitely has jurisdiction for this case,” he stressed. Assessing that EULEX has an “outstanding witness protection program” that enables it to easily conduct the investigation, the EULEX official has denied allegations of some Kosovo officials that there is no adequate witness protection system in Kosovo and that this is the reason why Marty did not forward the evidence to EULEX. Serbia insists that the investigation into the war crimes should be conducted under the UN umbrella.

EULEX “competent” to run investigation

“EULEX is already conducting a preliminary investigation (into the allegations made in the report). When perpetrators and victims are from Kosovo, EULEX has jurisdiction and our jurisdiction is exclusive when it is about war crimes and organized crime,” he stressed.

Bonfigli is today coming to Belgrade where he will take part in technical talks with Justice Ministry representatives about improvement of regional cooperation in the field of judiciary and combat against organized crime.

However, the European official says the Kosovo institutions are not ready to deal with war crimes but he believes that this will change in the future.

Pointing out that EULEX was prosecuting war crimes committed outside Kosovo, Bonfigli rejected allegations that the mission did not have jurisdiction to conduct the investigation outside Kosovo, including Albania where organs of kidnapped Serbs were allegedly removed.

“We are currently prosecuting the cases in which crimes were committed outside Kosovo, that we also have jurisdiction of, so EULEX definitely has jurisdiction for this case,” he stressed.

Assessing that EULEX has an “outstanding witness protection program” that enables it to easily conduct the investigation, the EULEX official has denied allegations of some Kosovo officials that there is no adequate witness protection system in Kosovo and that this is the reason why Marty did not forward the evidence to EULEX.

Serbia insists that the investigation into the war crimes should be conducted under the UN umbrella.

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