Staff Reporter
South African judge William Schutte, at the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg, on Monday ruled that Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang can be extradited to the United States, where he is wanted on charges related to a $2 billion debt scandal, one of Chang’s lawyers said on Monday.
The ruling will effectively serve as a recommendation for South Africa’s justice minister, who has the final say on the matter and will make a decision after the same court considers a competing extradition request from Mozambique.
Schutte ruled that “there is evidence that Manuel Chang has committed the crimes he is charged with and that all conditions are met so he can be tried in the United States”.
With both the US and Mozambique having issued their own extradition requests over the scandal that has shaken the struggling southern African country, the court said only the justice
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