Top Mongolian Security Official Released by Germany
Bat Khurts, head of the executive office of Mongolia's National Security Council who was extradited to Germany from Britain, has been released and arrived back in Mongolia, local media reported Tuesday.
Khurts arrived on a Mongolian national carrier flight from Seoul on Tuesday afternoon, according to the report.
"I was freed from a German prison on Sept. 22 and the next day I flew to South Korea. I was in South Korea for medical checks and today, I have flown to Ulan Bator with my family," Khurts was quoted by local media as saying.
Khurts was greeted at the airport by his relatives and vice foreign minister Bayarbaatar Bolor.
Khurts was arrested on a European arrest warrant in September 2010 on suspicion of kidnapping Damiran Enkhbat, a Mongolian refugee in Europe in 2003 and then taking him back to Mongolia.
Enkhbat, who was charged with the 1998 assassination of a Mongolian minister, never confessed to the crime during imprisonment. He died shortly after his release in 2006.
The Mongolian government has said that Khurts was on a "special mission to meet with British officials and discuss bilateral cooperation on security issues" when he was arrested.
Britain extradited Khurts to Germany on Aug. 19 as Enkhbat's children, who are German citizens, filed charges against Khurts, claiming he was brutal against their father who died due to the harsh treatment he received in Mongolian prison and the brutality of the Mongolian special agents led by Khurts.
Details of Khurts' release from the German prison were not disclosed by Mongolian officials. German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit Mongolia in the first week of October.
Khurts arrived on a Mongolian national carrier flight from Seoul on Tuesday afternoon, according to the report.
"I was freed from a German prison on Sept. 22 and the next day I flew to South Korea. I was in South Korea for medical checks and today, I have flown to Ulan Bator with my family," Khurts was quoted by local media as saying.
Khurts was greeted at the airport by his relatives and vice foreign minister Bayarbaatar Bolor.
Khurts was arrested on a European arrest warrant in September 2010 on suspicion of kidnapping Damiran Enkhbat, a Mongolian refugee in Europe in 2003 and then taking him back to Mongolia.
Enkhbat, who was charged with the 1998 assassination of a Mongolian minister, never confessed to the crime during imprisonment. He died shortly after his release in 2006.
The Mongolian government has said that Khurts was on a "special mission to meet with British officials and discuss bilateral cooperation on security issues" when he was arrested.
Britain extradited Khurts to Germany on Aug. 19 as Enkhbat's children, who are German citizens, filed charges against Khurts, claiming he was brutal against their father who died due to the harsh treatment he received in Mongolian prison and the brutality of the Mongolian special agents led by Khurts.
Details of Khurts' release from the German prison were not disclosed by Mongolian officials. German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit Mongolia in the first week of October.
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