{"id":20930,"date":"2022-06-09T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-ex-minister-faces-us-trial-after-41-month-legal-fight-bloomberg"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:51:55","slug":"mozambique-ex-minister-faces-us-trial-after-41-month-legal-fight-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-ex-minister-faces-us-trial-after-41-month-legal-fight-bloomberg","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique ex-minister faces US trial after 41 month-legal fight \u2013 Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Manuel Chang, the former Mozambique finance minister, will be extradited from South Africa to the US to face charges related to his role in a $2 billion sovereign-debt scandal, as a near-three-and-a-half-year legal battle draws to an end.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court, the highest in the country, on Tuesday dismissed an application by Mozambique\u2019s government to appeal a November 2021 High Court order that Chang be extradited to the US to face charges including conspiracy to commit securities fraud and money laundering. He\u2019s been in custody in a prison near Johannesburg since his arrest in December 2018 on a US warrant.<\/p>\n

The application was dismissed with costs, according to the ruling dated June 7. The Forum for Monitoring the Budget, a Maputo-based non-governmental group at the center of the legal battle to send Chang to the US, shared the order.<\/p>\n

The ruling is a blow to the Mozambican government, which in 2019 lodged a competing extradition application with neighboring South Africa, and has fought to have him returned home to face charges in the case that\u2019s also entangled the son of former President Armando Guebuza. Both have denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Mozambique had also petitioned South Africa\u2019s Supreme Court of Appeal, which would have waited for the Constitutional Court to decide on the related case, said Andr\u00e9 Thomashausen, international law professor emeritus at the University of South Africa. The Supreme Court of Appeal will probably now take a few weeks to reach a decision, and will most likely agree with the High Court order that Chang be extradited to the US, he said by phone Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the last step in the procedure which still has to be resolved,\u201d said Thomashausen. \u201cAfter that, there will be no further recourse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Chang and Mozambique\u2019s attorney general didn\u2019t immediately respond to calls and emails seeking comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cManuel Chang will have to be extradited to the US,\u201d said Adriano Nuvunga, head of the FMO, the Portuguese acronym for the non-governmental group. \u201cThere, we trust that the justice system will be more independent and can help to clarify the billion-dollar fraud that has impoverished Mozambicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

By<\/b><\/p>\n

Borges Nhamire and Matthew Hill<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Manuel Chang, the former Mozambique finance minister, will be extradited from South Africa to the US to face charges related to his role in a $2 billion sovereign-debt scandal, as a near-three-and-a-half-year legal battle draws to an end. 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