EXTRADITION AMBITION: Mozambique’s former finance minister Chang could be heading for rendezvous with US justice system

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EXTRADITION AMBITION: Mozambique’s former finance minister Chang could be heading for rendezvous with US justice system By Peter Fabricius Pfabric

New Justice Minister Ronald Lamola’s decision to halt the extradition of former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country means he could instead now be extradited to the US — where he is much more likely to experience real justice on massive corruption charges.

The statement also said that Lamola had decided not to oppose an application to the Johannesburg High Court by a Mozambican NGO asking it to overturn a decision by the Kempton Park Magistrate’s court earlier this year that Chang could be extradited to Mozambique.The department has, therefore, approached the court to take into account the new information viz-a-vis the former minister’s decision,” Phiri said.

But in any case, Chang and other business people and government officials involved in the deal have been accused of siphoning off millions of dollars of the secret loans into their own bank accounts. The Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court ruled that both extradition applications were valid, leaving it up to then justice minister Masutha to decide which country he should go to. He decided Chang should be extradited to Mozambique.

 

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