Mongolian prosecutors transferred the case of S.Zorig's murder to the Primary Court of Ulaanbaatar's Sukhbaatar District earlier this month. S.Zorig, one of the heroes of the country's peaceful transition to democracy was brutally murdered on October 2nd 1998.

According to an official source, M.Aldar judge of the  Primary Court of Ulaanbaatar's Sukhbaatar District appointed to  the case.  Three possible suspects, namely T.Chimgee, B.Sodnomdarjaa and Ts.Amgalanbaatar, all from Orkhon province,  have been in detention since 2015.

Zorig's wife B.Bulgan was released from prison on 9th September after having been held incommunicado since November 2015. The basis for her detention was allegedly connected with her presentation of false evidence in the initial hearings.