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Manuel Chang: Jet that will fly former finance minister to New York is already in South Africa
3:04 CAT | 10 Jul 2023
Image: twitter / @julianrademeyer]
Reports are circulating indicating that former minister of finance Manuel Chang could be extradited to the United States of America as soon as this Monday (10-07).
A Gulfstream jet registered to the US Department of Justice is currently at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg.
Interesting and relatively unusual visitor: A US Department of Justice aircraft has arrived at Lanseria. https://t.co/RBpzF1Adeg
— Darren Olivier (@darren_olivier) July 9, 2023
According to the South African Daily Maverick newspaper, “Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang is expected to be handed over to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday and flown to the US to stand trial for fraud and corruption after more than four years in jail in South Africa”.
Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, spokesperson for the SAPS, told Daily Maverick: “Yes, we can confirm that he will be extradited back to the USA. He was arrested in SA; we will surrender him to the FBI this week acting on an extradition request.”
Other sources told Daily Maverick that Chang, who has been in jail in South Africa since December 27, 2018, would be escorted by FBI officials on to a Gulfstream 550 jet at Lanseria airport on Monday to be extradited to New York.
A member of the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP) also reported that the Gulfstream jet belonging to the US Department of Justice that landed at Lanseria Airport in South Africa on Sunday (09-07) would transport Manuel Chang to the U.S. soon.
READ: South Africa to extradite Manuel Chang to the US on Monday or Tuesday
In the US, Chang could face trial for the three crimes he is accused of, or plead guilty and collaborate with American justice in clarifying the contours of the accusations.
A Gulfstream registered to the US Department of Justice is currently at the Lanseria Airport terminal building in Johannesburg, presumably to collect him pic.twitter.com/XTw6DBXOMz
— Julian Rademeyer (@julianrademeyer) July 10, 2023
This US Department of Justice Gulfstream is a fairly uncommon aircraft to visit Africa.
Per the LinkedIn profile of one of its pilots, he:
“Pilots corporate jets and other aircraft to respond to crisis situations domestically and around the world. Deploys worldwide, including… pic.twitter.com/41WyUV3hJR
— I.C. (@IanECox) July 8, 2023
Source: MZNews /Daily Maverick
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