{"id":20991,"date":"2022-06-10T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/civil-society-hails-victory-against-impunity-in-sa-extradition-case"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:19:00","slug":"civil-society-hails-victory-against-impunity-in-sa-extradition-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/civil-society-hails-victory-against-impunity-in-sa-extradition-case","title":{"rendered":"Civil society hails victory against impunity in SA extradition case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>\u2013 The Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO), a Mozambican civil society platform, called the decision by the South African Constitutional Court to reject the appeal request on the extradition of former Finance Minister Manuel Chang a \u201cvictory against impunity.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court rejected a request for an appeal in this instance filed by the Attorney General\u2019s Office of the decision to extradite former Finance Minister Manuel Chang to the US, which seeks to try the former governor as part of the case of the hidden debts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a relief for millions of Mozambicans who were pushed into poverty by the corrupt actions led by Manuel Chang,\u201d FMO coordinator Adriano Nuvunga told Lusa.<\/p>\n

He said that the position of South Africa\u2019s highest judicial body sends a signal to the Mozambican leadership that \u201ccorruption is paid for with justice and not with impunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe political leadership knows that corruption is paid for with justice, it may take time, but it is paid for,\u201d said the FMO coordinator.<\/p>\n

Adriano Nuvunga said that Mozambican civil society would \u201ccontinue to litigate\u201d for Manuel Chang to be tried in the US, accusing the Mozambican justice system of not having the conditions to hold the guilty parties responsible in the case of the hidden debts.<\/p>\n

In its ruling, the Constitutional Court of South Africa \u201cconcluded that the request should be dismissed with costs as it is not in the interest of justice to hear him at this stage.<\/p>\n

At the end of last year, the Mozambican Attorney General\u2019s Office submitted a request for direct access to the South African Constitutional Court seeking a review of the decision by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to extradite former Mozambican minister, Manuel Chang, who has been in prison for three and a half years without trial in South Africa, to the US.<\/p>\n

In Mozambique, Manuel Chang is the subject of an autonomous process related to the case of hidden debts.<\/p>\n

In the main trial taking place in the country, 19 defendants are awaiting sentencing, scheduled for August.<\/p>\n

Aged 63, Manuel Chang was arrested on 29 December 2018 at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg en route to Dubai based on an international arrest warrant issued by the US on 27 December for his alleged involvement in the so-called hidden debts case.<\/p>\n

According to South African prosecutors, Manuel Chang\u2019s arrest was legal under the extradition treaty between the US and South Africa, signed in September 1999 in Washington.<\/p>\n

Chang, three former Credit Suisse bankers and a Privinvest mediator, were detained at the request of US justice.<\/p>\n

The investigation alleges that the US$2.7 billion (2.3 billion euros) financing operation, according to Mozambican prosecutors, to create the Mozambican public companies Ematum, Proindicus and MAM during the mandate of President Armando Guebuza is a vast case of corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n

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