Urologist Lutfi Dervishi sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison

He has been banned from urologist practice for a period of two years.

The time spent in custody from November 4th 2008 to December 3rd 2008, as well as from January 10th 2017 to the day that sentence is made of formal form will be counted in detention.

In the act proclaimed today, the head of the court, Francesca Fischer, has said that Dervis's responsibility in the charges he was charged with has been proven.

“has proved that Lutfi Dervishi, as the owner of the Medicus clinic and through his personal participation in several transplant operations, knowing that the Medicus clinic did not possess permission for transplant intervention and given that transplantation has been banned in collaboration with other persons with the means of fraud and misuse of the sensitive position has recruited at least 7 persons, housed and operated them at the Medicus clinic with the intention of using and acquiring kidneys and transplanting those organs of the recipient <18x> said Ficher during the trial reading.

“has proved beyond reasonable suspicion that Dervishi as a member of an international criminal organisation that has functioned as a structured group since January 2nd 2008 through November 2008. Lutfi Dervishi in his role as owner and manager at the “Medicus” surgeon and surgeon assistant in some of the transplant operations along with other people known and unknown to Turkey and Ukraine has committed criminal trafficking work with people”, she said.

“have organised their transport from different countries and then along with other persons from Kosovo and abroad have done transplants at the “Medicus” clinic and indirectly and have benefited good financial”, the judge added.

She then specified how much money the accused benefited from transplants in his clinic:

From witness T3 from Israel, 100 thousand Americans have benefited.

Of the T4 witness from Israel, 70 thousand euros have benefited.

From the M2 witness from Israel, the amount of $18,000 has been benefited.

Of Israel's witness A1, 79 thousand euros have benefited.

By witness Tadeus Sadas from Poland, 25 thousand euros have benefited.

From witness Raul Fain of Canada, 80 thousand euros have benefited.

Of the M1 witness from Israel, 77 thousand euros have benefited.

Of the witness T2 from Israel, 80 thousand euros have benefited.

Israel's Bezaler Shafran has benefited from 90 thousand euros.

The court has convicted the second indictee, Sokol Hajdini, who was sentenced to 1 year in prison.

The chairman of the panel, Fischer, said it has proved that Sokol Hajdini from May 15th 2008 until October 31st 2008, as an anesthesiologist, in co-operation with Lutfi Dervisin, along with other known and unknown persons from Kosovo, as well as abroad as Turkey and Ukraine “have participated in 7 transplant operations at the Medicus clinic, given that the removal of organs with the aim of transplanting was illegal in Kosovo”

Lutfi Dervisi, owner of the Clinic “Medicus” in which the Prosecutor's Office is allegedly having kidney transplantation, is accused of 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.

The Court of Appeals had later confirmed Dervis's sentence, while Heidi had added her years to her prison sentence from three years to 5.