Mozambique Ex-Minister Faces US Trial After 41 Month-Legal Fight
- Manuel Chang is wanted in the US, Mozambique over debt scandal
- He’s been in custody in South Africa since December 2018
Manuel Chang at Kempton Park Magistrates court in South Africa, in 2019.
Photographer: Wikus de Wet/AFP/Getty Images
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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.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court, the highest in the country, on Tuesday dismissed an application by Mozambique’s 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’s been in custody in a prison near Johannesburg since his arrest in December 2018 on a US warrant.