• Organ Trafficking Part: 2

  • Jan 24 2022
  • Length: 7 mins
  • Podcast

Organ Trafficking Part: 2

  • Summary

  • Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network Show Name:  Speaking for the SilencedEpisode 7:  Organ Trafficking: Part 2

    Tune into this week’s episode of #SpeakingfortheSilenced!

    You are listening to Speaking for the Silenced podcast with your host(s) Jacqueline Sun.

    In this episode of Speaking for the Silenced, we will end a two-part segment discussing organ trafficking. Today, we will focus on a real-life incident of trafficking that occurred in Kosovo in 2008.

    Segment 1: Background
    • Victim’s name is Yilmaz Altun, located in Pristina, Kosovo
    • Fainted in middle of airport due to wound from organ removal
    • It was found that the organ donation was conducted a clinic in Pristina called Medicus
    • Medicus was a chain of organ trafficking clinics that were designed solely for the purpose of making profit.
    • Preyed on the poor and vulnerable
    • Crime ring was operated by Lutfi Dervishi and his son, both Kosovo physicians.
    • Actual organ removal was conducted by Yusuf Ercin Sonmez, a Turkish surgeon
    • The main operators of Medicus had been on the run for some time, evading capture since their operations were exposed in 2008. 
    • However, a few have been incarcerated

    Segment 2:  Even more twisted origins
    • The Medicus Case has an even more complex twist
    • Council of Europe found connections with Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
    • Terrorist group that sought to seprate Kosovo from Yugoslavia
    • The KLA reportedly began organ trafficking in 1999
    • People and authorities have even began to suspect that Hashim Thaci, Prime minister of 
    • So how is the link between Medicus and the KLA established?
    • Kidneys harvested from the Serbian captives were transported to Sonmez, the doctor who was involved in the transplants in Medicus
    • Public hoped that Medicus could be linked back to the KLA and ex Prime Minister Thaci. 

    Music Credits:   Brooklyn and the Bridge by Nico Staf
    • At the Restaurant by Monolog Rockstars

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