The witness points to the court as to the threats made to the case “Medicus”

In today's trial of the case “Medicus”, Lutfi Dervisit was invited as a witness to an accused family for illegal kidney transplantation. It's Emin Sylyn, who is the grandson of the accused's wife and who had appeared before the court nine years ago as a suspect in the same case.

Before EULEX's court today gave his testimony, Emin Sylaj, grandson of the accused's wife for illegal kidney transplant at the “Medicus” hospital, Lutfi Dervisit.

The Express newspaper has forwarded its testimony given Tuesday to the Pristina Foundation Court in connection with the “Medicus”.

Sylaj in 2008 had witnessed before the police in the quality of the suspect, but was now invited to the Court in the quality of the witness. Doctor by profession, but in 2008, only medical student was suspected to have helped Lutfi Dervis at his event, sending and taking patients from the clinic “Medicus” to Pristina Airport and vice versa.

The house in which Emin Sylaj lived was just 200 meters from the clinic “Medicus”. He now lives and works in Germany, writes Express.

In 2008, when the clinic “Medicus” was raided by police, Sylaj was questioned in the quality of the suspect. By giving his statement to the police, he was read the witness's oath, not the suspect's, as required by law.

The Witness, in today's judgment, sometimes mentioned that during his testimony in 2008, he was threatened by the police to beat him and put him in prison.

I've never been to the police before, I've never had law problems. It was terrible for me how the police treated me at the time. I didn't know what I was doing in that form”, Emin Sylaj said.

He was asked by EULEX prosecutor Valeria Bolici, whether he had ever helped Lutfi Dervis at his event, sending or taking foreign patients to Kosovo to perform transplants or checks at the “Medicus” clinic. That question was posed to the witness after in his statement given to the police said he had taken several patients or doctors from Pristina Airport to “Medicus” in Vushtrri and vice versa.

Today, eight years later, he said he didn't say it to the police, but only that he showed it was a case when he had helped patients by sending “Medicus” to the airport, but that's why he didn't say anyone had told him, but he had done it because of respect for Lutfi Dervis.

Since Sylaj's home has been near the “Medicus”, he indicated he once saw two people standing on the street waiting for a taxi.

I was going to Kosovo Fushe to buy something, they stopped me and asked me to give them some number of taxis, as that company that they were waiting for was too late and they didn't have time to wait any longer. There I realized that they had been at Lutfi Dervis's clinic. At that time the road was being restructured and it was normal for the taxi to be delayed, so I wanted to do a favor and because of respect for Dervis I took them and sent them to Pristina Airport”, the witness indicated, stressing that this was the only time he had sent someone from the clinic to the airport.

But for the statement given to that world in the police, Sylaj said he was under intense police pressure, since, according to him, the same people threatened to beat him and put him in jail.

I've been under pressure because I've never been to the police, even remember if I read the statement before I signed it. I have already signed that I was told that when I sign the letter I will be released”, Lutfi Dervis's family witness said.

When asked about the role of Arba Dervishi, the son of Lutfi Dervis, the witness said at the time that Arban was an economist and that he did not even now know his role that he could have at the “Medicus” clinic.

The Prosecution Act says that Emin Sylaj, in addition to having a family relationship with Lutfi and Arba Dervisin, has sometimes helped them by going to the airport to pick up patients who came to the clinic for medical treatment. Thus, according to the indictment, Sylaj once took a Turkish doctor and patients and sent them to the hospital/clinika “Medicus” in Vushtrri.

On these charges, Sylaj in his 2011 testimony, but even today, said he has not met any Turkish doctors or patients. He denied all those charges that were made against him at the time when he was treated as a suspect.

In this case, Lutfi Dervisi, who owned the clinic “Medicus”, where the kidney transplant allegedly took place, is charged with trafficking with human beings and organised crime, while Sokol Hajdini is accused of serious bodily injury. Part of that judgment was Arba Dervishi, the son of Lutfi Dervis, but the procedure against him is isolated because he is on the run.

Urologist Lutfi Dervisi had been sentenced by the Constitutional Court in Pristina to eight years in prison in 2013, while Sokol Hajdini to 3 years. These were accused of involvement in illegal trafficking and transplantation of organs in Kosovo in 2008.