Office of the Prosecutor General
Prosecution service head office
The head office of Mongolia's prosecution service. Under Article 42 of the Law on the Prosecutor, the prosecutor's office enforces the implementation of criminal and violation legislation on the territory of Mongolia, supervises the inquiry into and investigation of cases and the execution of punishment, and participates in court trials on behalf of the State (Law on the Prosecutor, legalinfo.mn).
The system has three tiers: the State General Prosecutor's Office, aimag and capital city prosecutor's offices, and soum, inter-soum and district prosecutor's offices, and a specialised prosecutor's office may also be established. The State Prosecutor General is appointed by the President of Mongolia in consultation with the State Great Khural for a term of six years (Law on the Prosecutor, Articles 43 and 46, legalinfo.mn).
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Jargalsaikhan Banzragch
State Prosecutor General - appointed by presidential decree on 5 April 2019 (Office of the President of Mongolia, 8 April 2019); listed as Prosecutor General of Mongolia in the programme of the International Association of Prosecutors conference held in Ulaanbaatar in May 2025
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Appointment rules - DOCUMENTED
A State Prosecutor General or deputy must have worked as a lawyer for at least ten years and have reached the age of thirty-five. Deputies are appointed by the President for six years, in consultation with the State Great Khural, on the proposal of the State Prosecutor General, and the Prosecutor General approves the procedure for the selection, promotion, demotion and rotation of prosecutors (Law on the Prosecutor, Articles 45 and 46, legalinfo.mn).
A service dating to 1930 - DOCUMENTED
The General Prosecutor's Office was set up in 1930. Its two main functions are supervisory - prosecutors supervise inquiries by the police in criminal and civil cases and by customs and administrative organs, and supervise the execution of criminal penalties - and representative: it represents the state in civil and criminal proceedings (NYU Law GlobaLex, Overview of the Mongolian Legal System and Laws).
The 2019 early-dismissal law - DOCUMENTED
Legislation passed in March 2019 allowed the National Security Council to ask Parliament to dismiss the Prosecutor General before the end of the six-year term. Observers noted that the fixed term had previously insulated the office from elections and political influence, and that the change could make the institution vulnerable to political pressure (Mongolia Focus, University of British Columbia, March 2019). A new Prosecutor General, Jargalsaikhan Banzragch, took office the following month (Office of the President, 8 April 2019).
International prosecutors' work, 2024 - DOCUMENTED
At the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors in Baku in autumn 2024, a delegation led by Prosecutor General Jargalsaikhan Banzragch met Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev, and the two offices discussed exchanging information on detecting, tracing and confiscating assets obtained through crime (AzerNews, October 2024).
Prosecutor training with the ILO, 2025 - DOCUMENTED
More than 290 prosecutors and officials from the Prosecutor's Office took part in training organised by the International Labour Organization with the Training and Research Institute under the Office of the Prosecutor General, on fundamental labour rights, forced labour and child labour, using the ILO National Child Labour Survey for Mongolia for 2021-2022 (ILO training report, reported December 2025). Research in progress on the office's current leadership term and case statistics.
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