do the Ministers Who Sold Zaisan Carry Criminal Liability?

A lot of apartments have been built over the last 10 years in the protected zone of Bogd Khan Mountain. The mountain was protected many centuries ago, and now the wealthy live there, surrounding the Zaisan Tolgoi.

General plans to develop Ulaanbaatar City through 2020, were approved in 1990. In those plans, it was decided that the land around Zaisan must be developed as a tourism and recreation zone, but now Zaisan is full of apartments. The Law on Specially Protected Areas has been confirmed by the State Great Khural and its implementation has become common law. However, enforcement has become powerless. That is why so many apartment towns, built with foreign and domestic investment, have been built in the Zaisan gap and on the Tuul River bank.

Wealthy people have built up a small city. It has everything: schools, kindergartens, a sports club and a night club working illegally past regulated hours of operation. Who created this scenario by breaking the law and utilizing granted land? A source from the General Prosecutor’s Office reported that legislative organizations have started taking action and are researching how to clear up the land problem.

The Ministers of Environment are blamed for authorizing the release of Zaisan gap and the National Park at Bogd Khan Mountain, and are considered to be the primary suspects behind the problem. Former General Secretary of the Motherland Party, I.Erdenebaatar, General Secretary of the Mongolian People’s Revolution Party, G.Shiilegdamba, former Secretary of the Mongolian People’s Revolution Party, U.Barsbold, and member of National Consultative Committee of the Democratic Party, L.Gansukh, are all considered suspect.

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