South Korean police banned Mongolian Chief Justice Dorj Odbayar from leaving the country to investigate allegations of harassing flight attendants.

Mr. Odbayar was interrogated for 9 hours yesterday after flying from Bali, Indonesia to South Korea to transit to Mongolia, Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency said today.

The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia planned to leave Korea on November 8, but the police in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and the prosecutor decided to impose a ban on him to leave within 10 days to expand the investigation. .

Police suspect Odbayar was involved in the murder of a Korean flight attendant on a flight from the capital Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Incheon, South Korea on October 31. "The exit ban lasted longer than expected due to translation problems," a Incheon police officer said.

The in-flight crew accused Odbayar of a colleague and police officer when arriving at the airport. The police then interrogated him for an hour and a half, but decided to let him continue flying to Bali, believing that Odbayar was exempted from diplomacy.

According to police, Odbayar said during the interrogation that he did not remember if he had harassed the flight attendant because he was drunk. "We cannot disclose more details of the investigation in progress, but we may prosecute him for further violations of the Aviation Security Law," the South Korean official said.

Police also asked Interpol to issue an arrest warrant for an Odbayar colleague on charges of sexually harassing another crew member on the flight. This man has now arrived in Singapore.