The Court Has Spoken

The Mongolian judicial system has now had its turn to weigh in on the issue of our apartment. The details of this are explained below in an e-mail I sent today to Byamba, our original landlord.

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From: Charles Mayer
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:44 AM
To: Byamba
Subject: apartment

Byamba,

The court has made a ruling regarding the apartment. According to the court, the apartment is now owned by Sambuunyan. He made a loan of 80 million tugrugs to Shine Delhii. When Shine Delhii did not repay the loan, Sambuunyan took them to the court.

The court ruled that the apartment was legally owned by Shine Delhii and not by you or Burenjargal. Since the apartment legally belonged to Shine Delhii and Shine Delhii owed 80 million tugrugs to Sambuunyan, the court gave the apartment to Sambuunyan as partial repayment of the loan.

I have all the court papers. Davaa at the Asia Foundation also has the court papers. If you come back to Mongolia, you can see the court papers and you can talk about it with the court.

I have no idea what really happened between you and Burenjargal. But it does not matter now, since the court says that Sambuunyan is the owner of the apartment.

Until Sambuunyan shows us the ownership certificate for the apartment, I will not pay rent to him. Sambuunyan and I have agreed that I will pay rent to the Asia Foundation. When Sambuunyan gets the ownership certificate, the Asia Foundation will give the rent to Sambuunyan.

Sambuunyan is a very good guy. If you want more information, you can contact him directly. He will explain everything to you.

Sambuunyan told me that he does not own the furniture in the apartment. He believes that the furniture belongs to you. If you want the furniture back or if you want Sambuunyan to pay you for it, you should contact him. If Sambuunyan does not want to buy the furniture, then I would be willing to rent it from you. We can negotiate the price.

If you would like to take the furniture, please contact Sambuunyan or Davaa and make arrangements with them. I will not let anyone in the apartment to take the furniture unless you first make arrangements with Sambuunyan or Davaa.

I’m sorry about this. I think that you are a nice guy and I really appreciate everything that you did for me when I arrived in Mongolia. Unfortunately, I have no choice now except to respect the ruling of the court. That is what the Asia Foundation has advised me to do. If you disagree with the court, I suggest that you return to Mongolia to deal with it.

Charlie