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The court in Turkey has released Yusuf Somnez who was arrested yesterday on evidence that he took part in Albanian-led organ extraction in Kosovo.
Somnez denied any involvement in organ extraction.
Turkey does not extradite their citizens to other countries where they commit crimes.
Turkish police in Istanbul arrested Yusuf Sonmez yesterday under suspicion that he acted as the chief organ extractor of kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo that was organized by the Albanian separatist leadership lead by Hashim Thaci.Turkish agency, Anadolia, reports that Sonmez was arrested under suspicion that he took part in organ extraction of Kosovo Serbs.
Sonmez is also suspected of being a high ranking kernel in the international trade in human organs.
Anadolia agency reported his arrest under title “Doctor Frankenstein arrested”.
Sonmez said that everything he did was legal and that he is not a part of any criminal group.
Kristiina Herodes, spokeswoman for European Union police in Kosovo, welcomed Sonmez’s arrest and said it was carried out based on the Pristina warrant. She said it was too early to comment on whether he would be extradited.
Herodes said the EU prosecutor in charge of the case, Jonathan Ratel, was working closely with Turkish judicial authorities on parallel investigations in Kosovo and Turkey.
denied any wrongdoing in the Kosovo case.
“I am being shown as the biggest criminal and even the leader of a criminal gang,” he wrote. “If I am the gang leader, where are my men?”
EU prosecutor said last week that, besides kidnapped Serbs, a large number of poor people came to Kosovo from abroad so that Sonmez can take out their organs.
These volunteers were offered $20,000 for an organ and extraction was done in a Pristina medical clinic called Medicus. The Medicus clinic is owned by an ethnic Albanian Lutfi Dervishi.
EULEX had an international warrant for Sonmez’s arrest.
Council of Europe report authored by Dick Marty mentions Medicus as the offspring of Albanian separatist organized crime activity in the sphere of organ extraction.
“This criminal activity [organ extraction], which developed with the benefit of the chaos prevailing in the region, at the initiative of certain KLA militia leaders linked to organised crime, has continued, albeit in other forms, until today, as demonstrated by an investigation being carried out by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) relating to the Medicus clinic in Pristina,” says the Council of Europe report.
Council of Europe report also says that investigation in Medicus and in Albanian organ trade has been deliberately made hard by some EU countries and countries implicated in invasion of Serbia’s Kosovo province.
Ethnic Albanian elderly man stands across from the Medicus clinic in Pristina.
“A further investigation, also carried out by EULEX, into the case of the Medicus Clinic in Pristina, has been made similarly difficult by the delays on the part of the authorities of several Council of Europe member and observer countries in responding to EULEX requests for international legal assistance. Considering the gravity of the acts alleged – trafficking in human organs, no less – such delays are incomprehensible and unconscionable,” states the Council of Europe report.
Albanian separatist leaders have all condemned the Council of Europe report and denied that they are implicated in any criminal activity.
Turkish media says that Thaci was a close associate of Somnez and that Thaci opened doors for Somnez’s morbid business of organ extraction.
After Thaci’s Albanian gunmen seized power in Serbia’s Kosovo province, Somnez offered poor people up to $20,000 for an organ, mostly kidneys, and his “patients” were mostly from Turkey or the Turkish speaking regions like Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan.
Some years ago, Somnez’s license was taken away in Turkey and because of that authorities say that he was very careful and that he sent his victims to Kosovo where an ethnic Albanian clinic, Medicus, took over the organ extraction procedure.
At the Medicus, six ethnic Albanians took part in organ extraction, one among which was Ilir Recaj who also worked at the the Kosovo Albanian separatist “ministry” of health.
Once the organ was taken out by Medicus the “patient” was never paid.
Buyers of these organs were from Israel, Canada and Germany and evidence shows that an Israeli lawyer paid $180,000 for a kidney.
Turkish daily Milijet wrote last year that “No such operation in Kosovo could pass without Hashim Thaci’s knowledge”.
Turkish intelligence notes that the name of Hashim Thaci appears 27 times in relation to the organ extractor Somnaz.
Somnaz was running away from the law for over a year and his Istanbul clinic was shut down.
Somnaz is married to a Lithuanian and has a Lithuanian passport and he hid inside the EU countries using the Lithuanian passport.
Somnaz was arrested on Tuesday around 3 pm and questioned extensively.
January 11, 2011
SERBIANNA
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