B.Khurts, the head of the Administration of the National Security Council, will not appeal a British court’s ruling that he be extradited to Germany to possibly face charges of kidnapping. Meanwhile, Mongolian Foreign Affairs Minister B.Bolor has issued a statement saying the British court did not carefully examine the materials it was sent from Mongolia, and that B.Khurts was not on an official visit to Britain when he was arrested. Some analysts believe B.Khurts was arrested to put pressure on the Mongolian government to give the British favorable treatment in Mongolia’s lucrative mining sector.
No date has been set for B.Khurts’s extradition from Britain to Germany. The matter will be discussed by a working group of the Mongolian government on Wednesday.