According to a three-year Council of Europe investigation, Hashim Thaci, prime minister of Kosovo, is the boss of a crime syndicate that smuggles dope, arms and organs. The FBI helped with the investigation, whose conclusions have Thaci participating in the harvesting of organs at a clinic called Medicus in 2000. Thaci was just elected the first prime minister of Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008.
Kosovo's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime.
Hashim Thaçi is identified as "the boss" of a network that began operating criminal rackets in the run-up to the 1999 Kosovo war, and has held powerful sway over the country's government since.
Kosovo PM is head of human organ and arms ring, Council of Europe reports
(via Warren Ellis)
