Mongolia Corruption News Today

Batbold Sukhbaatar has been accused of corruption before, featuring in the Panama Paper and Pandora Papers, but has never been convicted.

Corruption has been a perennial issue for Mongolia, but public outrage has sparked a new anti-corruption strategy from the government.

The proposed strategy aims to address a perennial issue through increased whistleblower protections, transparency measures, and international cooperation.

Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai discusses his government’s plans for fighting corruption, attracting investment, and navigating a worrisome security environment.

Stakeholders’ engagement is key in ensuring mining benefits Mongolian communities and society.

Whether protesters’ momentum can spur reform to root out corruption in Mongolia is an open question, write Gantulga Munkherdene (National University of Mongolia) and Ariell Ahearn (University of Oxford).

Anand Tumutogoo, Bolor Lkhaajav, and Julian Dierkes discuss the factors behind Mongolia’s December protests, and the likelihood of a repeat this spring.

Protesters have been demanding an end to the “coal mafia” in ongoing demonstrations since December 5.

For the second time this year, Mongolians took to the street en masse to show their discontent with the government.

“Fighting corruption is more about eliminating the conditions that create corruption than about corrupt officials,” says the director-general of Mongolia’s Independent Authority Against Corruption.