Organ traffic in Kosovo

Quoting an article published by the daily German “Der Spiegel”, Deutsche Welle says that the EU investigators are tracking organ traffickers of global activity.

The initiative was initiated by cases like a German producer and a poor Russian emigrant, which shows how diseased rich people prolong their life by using the poor.

The authors of the article are Arndt Ginzel, Martin Kruashaar and Steffen Winter. Their article published on Der Spiegel this Monday focuses on the medical clinic “Medicus” in Kosovo. The authors have been able to discuss with a person involved in the affair, Vera Shevdko, who confessed how poverty pushed her to do what many others seem to have done in her situation: selling a part of the body for thousands of Euros.

The person who is tracking the affair is the Prosecutor Jonathan Ratel, who arrived in Kosovo in 2010 to help the EU mission of EULEX in the construction of a Constitutional system. The Canadian started investigating the illegal activity of the organ traffickers from the Medicus Clinic, according to the DW while quoting Spiegel. The Canadian was convinced that the hospital of a German owner has stolen 20-30 kidneys that have been implanted to sick people who are able to pay. The so called kidney donors come from Instambul, Kishineu in Moldavia, or people who had just emigrated in Israel.

“The system has functioned because it was covered by the Kosovo doctors and the administration workers”, declared Spiegel after following for one month all tracks of the mafia organized by the “Medicus” clinic. The searches have expanded  to Israel, Turkey, Belarus and Germany.