The owner of Kosovo’s Medicus clinic and his head anaesthetist were convicted of human trafficking and organised crime after a court found they carried out illegal transplant operations to sell kidneys to patients.

Pristina Basic Court on Thursday found Medicus owner Lutfi Dervishi and the clinic’s head anaesthetist Sokol Hajdini guilty of human trafficking and organised crime.

Dervishi was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison and fined 8,000 euros, while Hajdini was jailed for a year.

The Medicus clinic brought kidney donors to Kosovo, illegally removed their organs and sold them to wealthy patients. The operations it carried out in 2008 earned the Pristina-based clinic around 679,000 euros, the court found.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-organ-trafficking-medicus-trial-verdict-05-24-2018