Ulaanbaatar
Amended amnesty law to authorize 1,700 convicts release
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Draft amendments to the Law on Amnesty were backed by parliament with 91.2 percent approval vote at Thursday’s plenary meeting.
The new Law on Amnesty has been adopted on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the first permanent parliament in Mongolia. However, the President put a partial veto on the Law, directing this to series of more discussions on the bill.
Parliament legalized a granting an amnesty for a crime of misappropriation or embezzlement of property, reflected in 150.3 of the Criminal Code of Mongolia.
Meanwhile, the criminals who committed Appropriation of property by fraud (148-Criminal Code), Abuse of power or of office by a state official (263.1), Excess of authority by a state official (264), Forgery in office (270), Receiving of a bribe (268) and Spending of the budget funds contrary to their designation (273) shall not be pardoned.
