The high-profile trial of a former Mongolian Prime Minister has been attracting much attention. Earlier today (11 November), the High Court of Mongolia decided to reduce the sentences of former PM M.Enkhsaikhan by six months.

On May, he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and banned from public office for four years.

M.Enkhsaikhan is accused of political sabotage and the abuse of power over an ‘unsigned’ agreement regarding the Tavan Tolgoi coal mine project.

The former politician returned from Stockholm in 2019, where he had been serving as Mongolian Ambassador to Sweden since 2017.

M.Enkhsaikhan served as the prime minister of Mongolia from 1996 to 1998; as such, he was the first in 80 years not belonging to the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party.