From the AP (via the San Francisco Chronicle):

U.N. investigators found no substantial evidence to support claims that ethnic Albanian guerrillas killed dozens of Serbs in Kosovo and sold their organs, a court spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Investigators visited northern Albania after U.N. officials in Kosovo passed on allegations of organ trafficking to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 2002 and 2003, said Olga Karvan, a spokeswoman for the court’s prosecutors.

“We followed the allegations and … no substantial evidence (was found) to substantiate the allegations,” Karvan said, without elaborating.

The allegations were publicized by the tribunal’s former chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in her memoirs, recently published in Italy, and prompted calls for further investigations.

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