The Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court has ruled that the arrest of Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang at OR Tambo International Airport was lawful.
Chang was on his way to Dubai when he was arrested on December 30 at the airport in terms of a United States warrant of arrest.
Magistrate Sagra Subroyen said Chang’s provisional arrest could be terminated in 60 days if the application for his extradition had not been lodged with supporting documents from the United States of America.
“That time has not lapsed… and, from the face of it, the warrant of arrest appears to be valid,” said Subroyen on Wednesday.
The magistrate postponed the case on Tuesday to peruse the state’s and the defence team’s arguments.
The US Justice Department claims that Chang and his alleged co-conspirators arranged more than $2bn in fraudulent loans from international investment banks to state entities, purportedly controlled by the
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