Dutch Hunt for Alleged Kosovo Organ Trafficking Turkish Doctor.(BalkanInsight).
Dutch officers are attempting to detain Sonmez, a Turkish doctor accused of being a key figure involved in trafficking in human organs at the Medicus clinic in Pristina, after Kosovo informed them about his whereabouts, a source close to the investigation told BIRN on Thursday.
“We are waiting for the results of the search by our Dutch colleagues,” the source said.
Sonmez and an Israeli national, Moshe Harel, are accused of people trafficking and organised crime by the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, and are listed as fugitives wanted by Interpol.
They have been on the run since the indictment against them was issued in June 2011.
Serbia’s office for war crimes prosecution said on Tuesday that organ trafficking suspect Sonmez, originally from Turkey, had been located in Amsterdam last week and that the information had been passed to the EU chief prosecutor in Kosovo.
EULEX’s chief spokesperson Miguel Carvalho de Faria confirmed to BIRN that the Serbian war crimes prosecutor had been in touch with Kosovo’s Special Prosecution Office, which was now “making the necessary inquiries with relevant authorities to ascertain the veracity of this information”.Read the full story here.
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