A Serbian football fan was given a 16-month prison term on Wednesday for threatening a reporter investigating a surge in attacks by hooligans.

Fatmir Limaj, one of the former leaders of the ethnic Albanian KLA, was involved in war crimes "that include human organ trafficking".

Lutfi Dervishi, the owner of a Kosovo clinic accused of organ trafficking, said he has been libeled by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), an international administrative body that oversees the country.

Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci’s government has sent 27 invitations to EU member states's leaders to visit Kosovo, Berlin-based daily Der Tagesspiegel has reported.

The notorious drug dealer Hikmet Hajrovic from Novi Pazar and another 20 persons have been arrested in a police operation carried out across Serbia, and several dozen kilograms of heroin were found in their possession, Serbian Police Director Milorad Veljovic told Tanjug Friday.

Serbian police have arrested more than a dozen former top officials at a major state-run coal mine and several private businessmen in a 12 million euro ($16 million) fraud case, the organised crime prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Organ trafficking case in Kosovo is seen as a major test for the EU mission mandated to enforce its rule of law in the country

Several persons have been placed under arrest in Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia for trafficking narcotics from South America

Serbian citizen Goran Vukovic was arrested in Sofia in a joint operation by Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian police in connection with alleged fraud running into millions in a number of Balkan countries, the Interior Ministry said on July 19 2011

The wife of a Democratic Republic of Congo diplomat, accredited to Belgrade, has been arrested at Serbia's border with Romania on suspicion of cigarette smuggling, Belgrade media reported Tuesday