EULEX: No investigation against Hashim Thaci

EULEX is not conducting an investigation against Hashim Thaci regarding Dick Marty’s report on human organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania. “However, nobody, not even the prime minister, will be immune to the investigation if there is evidence,” EULEX Deputy Head Andy Sparks said Friday. EULEX: No investigation against Hashim Thaci Sparks told Pristina-based Albanian language daily Express that EULEX was not conducting the investigation against Thaci or anybody else. “If there was any evidence against Thaci than there would be an investigation against him because he has no immunity. Nobody enjoys immunity in the investigation,” the EULEX deputy head pointed out. He added that an investigative working group was being formed in order to investigate the allegations from Marty’s report. “The group will be separated from Kosovo authorities in order to show everybody that an objective investigation will be conducted. The working group will operate ‘mostly from Brussels’ for the sake of all those who are concerned that we are more inclined to the Kosovo side,” Sparks concluded. Thaci was one of the leaders of the ethnic Albanian KLA. KLA members were named in the Marty report as perpetrators of atrocities in Kosovo in northern Albania, that included kindappings of Serb and other civilians, illegal imprisonment and harvesting of their organs. Serbia has asked for a UN-mandate investigation into the allegations, but some western countries insisted that it should be conducted by the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX. Hashim Thaci (FoNet, file)

EULEX: No investigation against Hashim Thaci

Sparks told Priština-based Albanian language daily Express that EULEX was not conducting the investigation against Thaci or anybody else.

“If there was any evidence against Thaci than there would be an investigation against him because he has no immunity. Nobody enjoys immunity in the investigation,” the EULEX deputy head pointed out.

He added that an investigative working group was being formed in order to investigate the allegations from Marty’s report.

“The group will be separated from Kosovo authorities in order to show everybody that an objective investigation will be conducted. The working group will operate ‘mostly from Brussels’ for the sake of all those who are concerned that we are more inclined to the Kosovo side,” Sparks concluded.

Thaci was one of the leaders of the ethnic Albanian KLA. KLA members were named in the Marty report as perpetrators of atrocities in Kosovo in northern Albania, that included kindappings of Serb and other civilians, illegal imprisonment and harvesting of their organs.

Serbia has asked for a UN-mandate investigation into the allegations, but some western countries insisted that it should be conducted by the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX.