Lutfi Dervishi

After Albania's Court of Appeals failed to end to the main opposition Democratic Party's leadership battle, the rival two groups within the party on Monday both submitted their applications to the Central Elections Commission for the local elections on May 14.

The crisis within Albania's opposition Democratic Party escalated further on Monday evening when a six-hour meeting of its chairmanship produced a new date for a party assembly which is different to one that former leader Sali Berisha is seeking as he challenges to retake the leadership.

Kosovo Police. Photo: BIRN

Police said on Wednesday, based on a warrant arrest issued by the courts: "Two men and two women were arrested on Tuesday as suspects, all of them of Kosovo Albanian nationality."

The statement read that during raids on some private clinics the police confiscated material evidence.

The former owner of the Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, who is being retried for alleged involvement in organised crime in connection with people-trafficking, told Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday that he once assisted in a kidney transplant at the clinic.