Yesterday (21 December), the first parliamentary hearing on the case of large-scale coal theft in Mongolia, which has caused mass protests across the country, took place at State House in Ulaanbaatar city.

Preliminary results of the investigation along with detailed information about the transportation of coal across the border with China were  revealed and  statistics on coal production, customs data, as well as information on the cost of coal were announced by the relative authorities.

The hearing held publicly with free access of media.