2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
A European Union led court has convicted five people related to a human organ trafficking ring in Kosovo.
The Medicus Clinic in the Kosovo capital of Pristina reportedly lured in extremely poor people with promises of money and then took their kidneys and other organs for transplants into rich foreigners according to court testimony.
The scheme was discovered after a man from Turkey collapsed in front of police after having one of his kidneys taken out at the clinic. The Kosovo police and United Nations police officials shut down the clinic soon after the discovery
According to court records, people in extreme poverty from Moldova, Kazahkstan, Russia and Turkey were brought to the clinic where no one spoke their language or explained what was going to happen to them. At least 30 illegal kidney removals were confirmed as taking place in 2008.
The case was tried by a European Union court instead of local courts because two of the now-convicted men were government ministers. The clinic’s director, Lutfi Dervishi was sentenced to eight years in prison for organized crime and human trafficking charges, receiving the longest sentence. His son Arban was sentenced to seven years and three months.
