the former premier made an unannounced visit to ulaanbataar last month in his capacity as a consultant to the cash-strapped government , which is dogged by allegations of endemic corruption that he met new mongolian prime minister chimed saikhanbileg but the secrecy surrounding his trip stoked fears from ecologists and the opposition that he is being deployed to encourage western investment to the country to massively increase gold , copper and coal mining , despite acute environmental worries that