B.Khurts was taken to the 461st Detention Centre on 23 April. The ex-spy-chief has been accused of breaching the laws on intelligence procedures by using torture to obtain confessions from defendants of the much-publicised murder case of the politician S.Zorig. The former spy-master had also been involved in a covert operation to capture a Mongolian dissident living in France and forcibly bring him home. The victim of Mongolia’s only known case of ‘rendition’ allegedly died under interrogation.

Following an investigation lasting two decades – in which there have been accusations of cover-ups and during which numerous people, including the victim’s wife, have been detained – Ts.Amgalanbaatar and two others were sentenced to 24-25 years in prison for the murder of S.Zorig. who one of the heroes of Mongolia’s peaceful transition to democracy and a likely future prime-minister The murder case was transferred to the Criminal Police Department from Independent Authority of Anti-Corruption due to the lack of human resources on 19 March.