The scandal over politicians granting themselves low-cost loans out of the fund to support small and medium enterprises became one of last year’s top news items. Earlier today (10 Aug), a Mongolian court decided to ban former Minister of Food,

The National Policy Committee of the Democratic Party assembled yesterday (3 August) to discuss the results of the June parliamentary election in which it suffered a devastating defeat. Immediately after the election, S.Erdene, leader of Democratic Party resigned and transferred

Former Mongolian Prime Minister S.Bayar was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday (23 July) for abuse of power.

The Primary Criminal Court of the Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei and Sukhbaatar Districts of Ulaanbaatar found the politician guilty of abusing power in

The trial of nine people including B.Khurts, the controversial former director of Mongolian’s General Intelligence Agency (GIA) and former Attorney General G.Erdenebat concluded yesterday (22 July) at the Tuv Province Criminal Court after five days of hearings. B.Khurts was sentenced

Former MP N.Nomtoibayar was sentenced to five years and five months in prison for abuse of power on Tuesday.

N.Nomtoibayar was found guilty of giving privileges to others by abusing power, including ordering the implementation of 29 projects and programmes in

Earlier today (8 July), the Mongolian Parliament appointed the 17 members of newly-formed Cabinet. Earlier, Mongolian President Kh.Battulga backed the names of the following new ministers:

L.Oyun-Erdene is appointed as Head of the Cabinet Secretariat.

Ya.Sodbaatar as Deputy Speaker

Former Baganuur Mayor N.Tavinbekh

At today’s (7 July) session, the Mongolian Parliament approved the structure of the new Cabinet headed by Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh. The Mongolian Cabinet will have 14 ministries – six of them are general and eight are functional. One new development

Earlier today (6 July), a Mongolian court sentenced former Prime Minister J.Erdenebat to six years in prison for abuse of power and banned him for six years from working in government office. The trial of the politician has been continuing