Link between missing students, Yellow House, unfounded

PRAGUE, April 5 – There is no connection between the three Czech students who went missing in 2001 in northern Albania and Serb allegations of organ trafficking, Czech police said.
“We checked all possibilities, we compared information and samples we have, and we did not find that the three students were any of the people in question,” Czech criminal police chief Jan Noga told the CTK news agency.
Czech police started checking the facts with police in Albania and Kosovo after media claims surfaced from statements made by Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic late last year that the three students were victims of the infamous “yellow house,” in which the Serbs believe people had their organs harvested and then sold on the black market.
The students, however, were in the region much later than the Kosovo Serbs who were allegedly believed by Serb authorities to have been abducted by Kosovo Albanians and taken to Albania for the harvesting operations.
The Serbian prosecution requested an investigation into the case from the Council of Europe last year as well. Albania has said they are open to any investigation from the Council of Europe or the international community but not from Belgrade.
Albanian police reopened the case of the three students following the request of the Czech police and even offered an award for information leading to solving the case.