Kosovo's EU-sponsored police force said today it would examine allegations that the country's prime minister is the head of a "mafia-like" criminal network linked to organ trafficking. Hashim Thaçi's government denounced the findings of a Council of Europe investigation into organised crime in the country as "slanderous". The Guardian understands that if there is sufficient evidence against Thaçi
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