ROBBER OF MUMMY SENTENCED TO 6-MONTH DETENTION

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The primary criminal court has decided to sentence D.Enkhtor, who had concealed and then attempted to sell the mummified remains of a Buddhist monk, to six months of detention. It has been established that, on October of 2014 he broke the tomb of Sanjjav Lama–a high-rank Buddhist teacher resting at the front valley of Sodnomdarjaa Mountain of Tsakhir soum in Arkhangai aimag. On January 27 he was caught in the city's Songinokhairkhan district while attempting to sell the mummified corpse. A case launched this January 29, and investigations were conducted on a basis of 129.1 of the Criminal Law of Mongolia. The first investigation division of the district’s Second Prosecutor’s Office issued a bill of particulars and transferred the case to the second stage of the primary criminal court. It accused D.Enhktor of excavating graves and sentenced him to six-month detention.