Manuel Chang, the former Mozambique finance minister, will be extradited from SA to the US to face charges related to his role in a $2bn sovereign-debt scandal, as a near-three-and-a-half-year legal battle draws to an end.
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 centre of the legal battle to send Chang to the US, shared the order. Mozambique had also petitioned SA’s Supreme Court of Appeal, which would have waited for the Constitutional Court to decide on the related case, said André 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.
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