Serbia and Kosovo have become refuges for each other’s criminals and fugitives, allowing suspected murderers, drug dealers and organ-traffickers to evade justice by crossing the border.
When the time came for Kosovo doctor Lutfi Dervishi and his son Arban to be imprisoned in 2016 for one of the Balkans’ most gruesome post-war crimes, the pair had vanished.
BIRN can reveal that Kosovo Police believe the urologist and his son, suspected of operating an organ-trafficking ring from the Medicus clinic in Pristina and currently on retrial, had slipped across the border into Serbia.
