Pristina: The EU rule of law mission in Kosovo says a US prosecutor has been named to investigate claims that Prime Minister Hashim Thaci led a criminal network that sold organs of civilian captives during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.
The mission said in a statement on Monday that John Clint Williamson was named "lead prosecutor" in a task force set up to investigate the allegations raised in a report last year by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty.
Marty said Thaci and other rebel commanders ran detention centres in Albania's border with Kosovo, where civilian captives, including Serbs, were killed and their organs sold on the black market.
Thaci has denied the allegations and pledged to work with the investigators.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, August 29, 2011, 15:46