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Kosovo Organ-Trafficking Defendant Admits Kidney Transplant (Balkan Insight)

By   /  26/04/2018  /  International  /  No Comments

Lutfi Dervishi, who is on trial for alleged involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo, told a Pristina court that he once assisted a wanted Turkish doctor in a kidney transplant. The former owner of the Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, who is being retried for alleged involvement in organised crime in connection with […]

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Kosovo Requests Extradition of Organ Trafficking Suspect (Balkan Insight)

By   /  15/01/2018  /  International  /  No Comments

Kosovo authorities requested the extradition of Moshe Harel, an Israeli citizen accused of being involved in organ- trafficking from Kosovo’s Medicus clinic in 2008. According to justice minister Aberald Tahiri, Kosovo authorities filed an extradition request for Moshe Harel, currently held in detention in Cyprus after being arrested earlier this month. Harel, an Israeli citizen […]

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Kosovo Clinic ‘Removed Patients’ Kidneys Unnecessarily’ (Balkan Insight)

By   /  22/09/2017  /  International  /  No Comments

A forensics expert told the retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo that two patients had their kidneys removed for no medical reason. Forensics expert Carmen Barbu told Pristina Basic Court on Thursday that the kidneys of two patients of the Medicus clinic who are testifying […]

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