Spy boss loses extradition fight

Bat Khurts has lost an appeal against a ruling that he can be extradited from the UK to Germany
12 April 2012

A Mongolian spy chief has lost an appeal against a ruling that he can be extradited from the UK to Germany to face charges of kidnap and false imprisonment.

Bat Khurts, who claims he was lured to the UK so he could be arrested and jailed under a European Arrest Warrant, had his case rejected by judges at the High Court in London.

He is alleged to have been involved in the abduction of Mongolian national Enkhbat Damiran, who was wanted in connection with the murder of a government official.

In February, District Judge Quentin Purdy, sitting at London's City of Westminster Magistrates' Court, said 41-year-old Khurts should be sent to Germany on a European Arrest Warrant.

But his legal team had urged Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Foskett to overturn the decision, arguing that, as head of the executive office of Mongolia's National Security Council, Khurts should have been covered by diplomatic immunity and should not have been detained when he arrived in Britain.

But the judges dismissed his case.

Khurts was arrested when his flight touched down at Heathrow Airport last September.

The court heard that there would be no appeal against the High Court's decision, but that the case would now be taken to Europe.

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