The investigation by Serbian war crimes prosecution has shown that surgical procedures performed on civilians who were victims of organ trafficking have apparently taken place in health-care centers and hospitals that were used to treat wounded members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war in Kosovo, the Saturday edition of the Belgrade-based daily Politika reports.

As noted in the Politika article, the Mother Theresa University Hospital Centre, Tirana, received a total of 75 patients from Kosovo in 1999, while the University Hospital in Skopje received another 70 patients from Kosovo-Metohija with the diagnosis of severe renal insufficiency.

Several kidney transplants were performed in Tirana.

A total of 35 out of the 75 patients were retained in the Tirana hospital, while others were transported to Italy (25) and Austria (15) where they were to be subjected to transplant procedures.

A number of other facilities in Albania were used for the same purpose, namely, a hospital in the army barracks in Bajram Curri, a health-care center in the Coca-Cola factory in Tirana, a neuropsychiatric hospital in a prison in the place of Burrel, and a private house adapted to serve as a hospital near the town of Tropoja, the so-called Yellow House.

In addition to these locations, the Serbian prosecutor's office has obtained information that there was also an illegal prison in the Deva mine located close to the border between Kosovo and Albania, one end of the tunnel resting in the province, and the other in Albania.

"Blic": Video from camp – proof against Thaci

One of the main proofs against Hashim Thaci and his Drenica group that the Serbian War Crime Prosecution Office has is a video from the camp in Likovac, Municipality Srbica, where, in addition to members of this group, four Serbs kidnapped from Kosovo can be seen, writes the Belgrade Blic Daily.

As stated, the video was shot by members of thee so-called KLA in May 1998, and it shows a worker of the Serbian Power Supply, Zarko Spasic, kidnapped from his work place on May 14 1998, a policeman from Gnjilane, Dejan Stoiljkovic, kidnapped on May 19 1998, while he was coming back on a bus from his visit to his cousin in Pec, Vladimir Spasic, kidnapped near Komorani on the same day, as well as a worker from Klina, Miroslav Suljinic, kidnapped near Lapusnik on May 21 1998.

Mortal remains of Suljinic were found in 2005, in a mass grave near Lapusnik, the article reads. The KLA Drenica Group attacked towns and villages and kidnapped at least 30 Serb and 11 Albanian civilians, as well as several policemen, the Daily reports and points, calling upon a source close to the investigation, that, based on the gathered evidence, Thaci ordered a series of crimes.