UN investigation in the Albanian trafficking in organs of deliberately murdered Serbs was doomed to failure because members of the UN mission in Kosovo themselves were implicated in it claims Serbian daily Vecernje Novosti citing an unnamed source who was a former member of the UN mission in Kosovo known as UNMIK.

Vecernje Novosti says that the UNMIK Head of the Office for Missing Persons and Forensics Jose Pablo Barajbar was personally involved in the organ trafficking.

Vecernje Novosti says that Barajbar, presently in Argentina, knew what happened in Albania but stopped the investigation. 

In 2003, Chief UN Prosecutor for former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte asked UNMIK to start an investigation on human organ trafficking, an unnamed UNMIK member told the Novosti.

Map shown by Vecernje Novosti of the smuggling routs.

The unnamed source said that del Ponte's request for investigation was sent to the UNMIK Central Investigation Unit who dispatched "members" along with Hague investigators and an Albanian prosecutor.

All of them visited a "yellow house" in north Albania where, according to the unnamed source, organs were extracted from the Serbs kidnapped in Kosovo and then transported to the airport in Tirana so it can be shipped to places that has placed orders for the organs.

Gloves, surgical instruments, I/V bottles and traces of blood were found inside the "yellow house" indicating that procedures were taking place inside the house, the unnamed UNMIK member says.

The unnamed source also notes that it is "unbelievable" that investigators did not even dust the house for fingerprints.

The information on the organ trafficking was provided to the Hague prosecutors by four Albanians who were involved in the entire operation says the unnamed source.

"Four Albanians" were ones to lead the UNMIK investigating team to the "yellow house" and showed them burial places for the human remains.

Exhumation never took place says the unnamed former UNMIK member for the Novosti.

Prosecution has also learned that the operation was ordered by the top leadership of the Kosovo Albanian separatists who are now in positions of power in the province and have declared Kosovo, a Serbian province, an independent state.

US and several other states have recognized Kosovo as an independent state.

About 300 Kosovo Serb civilians were picked out and kidnapped then led and stored in a concentration camps in Albanian cities of Tropoje, Kukes and Deva. Inside the camps these Serbs were first tortured then killed.

After being killed, Albanians surgically removed organs from their bodies, drove off with the organs to the Tirana airport and shipped them to various buyers.

The remains were buried in the region where their organs were extracted.

Russian prosecutors are also checking their data files because reports have surfaced that up to 50 Russian nationals, mostly females, have also been killed by the "Albanian mafia" for their organs.

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