{"id":30161,"date":"2022-11-30T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/deportation-of-manuel-chang-to-us-delayed-by-appeal-by-maputo"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:32:22","slug":"deportation-of-manuel-chang-to-us-delayed-by-appeal-by-maputo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/deportation-of-manuel-chang-to-us-delayed-by-appeal-by-maputo","title":{"rendered":"Deportation of Manuel Chang to US delayed by appeal by Maputo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The extradition of Mozambique\u2019s former Finance Minister Manuel Chang to the United States, who has been jailed for four years in South Africa, is \u201cunenforceable\u201d while an appeal by the Mozambican government is pending in the South African courts, legal sources said today.<\/p>\n

Chang is the subject of two competing extradition requests from the United States and Mozambique and has been detained in South Africa since December 2018 under a US arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are waiting for the response from the SCA [Supreme Court of Appeal], and it is impossible to predict the [court\u2019s] calendar,\u201d a legal source in the extradition lawsuit for the former Mozambican ruler underway in South Africa told Lusa. The previous court ruling, in the Gauteng High Court on 10 November 2021, decided that the former Mozambican ruler should be extradited to the US.<\/p>\n

The following day, the Mozambican government requested permission from South Africa\u2019s SCA in Bloemfontein to appeal the Gauteng High Court\u2019s decision and simultaneously submitted a request for direct access to the Constitutional Court in Pretoria, which it believed was \u201cin a better position to review the decision\u201d of the Gauteng regional court.<\/p>\n

However, in June this year, South Africa\u2019s Constitutional Court rejected the request from the Mozambican Attorney General\u2019s Office to appeal against the extradition of the former Mozambican finance minister to the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a typical case of an arm wrestling match in which there is no compromise, and the Mozambique Prosecutor\u2019s Office, led by Mrs Beatriz Buchili and very closely linked to President Nyusi, simply does everything in its power to delay and prevent the extradition to the United States, although the South African judicial authorities have decided twice that this is the only legal and constitutionally permitted decision and all appeals against these decisions were rejected, recently even the special appeal to the Constitutional Court of South Africa,\u201d said the academic and jurist Andre Thomashausen, a specialist in international and comparative law.<\/p>\n

The decision of the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg invalidated the announcement in August last year by the South African justice minister, Ronald Lamola, that Mozambique should be the place of Manuel Chang\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n

In the view of Judge Margarete Victor, \u201ccorruption contributes to poor countries becoming even poorer,\u201d stressing that the South African justice minister should have justified all the reasons for the decision to deport Manuel Chang to Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are material considerations that call into question, for example, the arrest warrant,\u201d the judge stressed, referring to a second arrest warrant issued on 14 February 2020 by the Mozambique authorities against Manuel Chang, which she considered \u201cdifficult to understand\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems that there is a crime of passive corruption for a certain act, and it is not clear whether there will be punishment of Mr Chang in this regard,\u201d the South African judge stressed.<\/p>\n

Following the ruling, the US government also reiterated its commitment to bringing those responsible for \u201clarge-scale fraud, bribery and money laundering\u201d to justice as the South African judiciary decided.<\/p>\n

In the last four years, the handover of Mozambique\u2019s former finance minister, considered the \u201ckey\u201d in the alleged Mozambican hidden debts scam, was scheduled for the third time after two attempts by Pretoria, invalidated in May 2019 and August 2021, by Maputo.<\/p>\n

The former Mozambican minister, detained in South Africa since December 2018 at the request of the US, is allegedly involved in the case of hidden debts worth more than $2.2 billion (about \u20ac2 billion), contracted between 2013 and 2014 from the British subsidiaries of investment banks Credit Suisse and VTB by Mozambican state-owned companies Proindicus, Ematum and MAM.<\/p>\n

The loans were secretly endorsed by the Frelimo government, led by President Armando Guebuza, Filipe Nyusi\u2019s predecessor, without the knowledge of parliament or the Administrative Court.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that is where the big problem lies. In my view, President Nyusi and his administration want to continue to hide until the last consequence.<\/p>\n

It is not convenient that Mr Chang, in an American court where he may feel safe, comes to explain who ordered him to sign and do what he did because it is inconceivable that he has carried out these acts of corruption and laundering, money laundering, on his own initiative,\u201d Thomashausen stressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unusual for an arrest just to secure extradition to extend beyond a year. Here we are talking about four years in which this person is detained without a trial, a formal charge, or the possibility of defence. It is a violation of fundamental human rights,\u201d the South African lawyer told Lusa.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. The extradition of Mozambique\u2019s former Finance Minister Manuel Chang to the United States, who has been jailed for four years in South Africa, is \u201cunenforceable\u201d while an appeal by the Mozambican government is pending in the South African courts, legal sources said today. 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