Juts In: Protesters cut main access road to Maputo on N4
South Africa: Lamola yet to reach decision on former Mozambique finance minister’s extradition fate
9:07 CAT | 26 Nov 2020
File photo: AFP
- South Africa’s Justice Minister, Ronald Lamola is yet to reach a decision on the fate of former Mozambique finance minister, Manuel Chang.
- Chang was detained in December 2018.
- He is needed within the US in reference to a $2 billion mortgage scandal.
South Africa’s Justice Minister Ronald Lamola is yet to make a decision on former Mozambique finance minister, Manuel Chang’s fate almost a 12 months after the High Court remitted the decision again to him.
“When a decision is reached it will be communicated accordingly,” Lamola’s spokesperson Chrispin Phiri advised News24 on Wednesday.
This comes after the High Court – on 1 November 2019 – dismissed Chang’s bid to compel Lamola to give impact to his predecessor’s decision to extradite him to his residence nation, as a substitute of the US.
Lamola – in a counter software – requested that former minister Michael Masutha’s decision [to send Chang to his home country] be reviewed and put aside on the premise that it was opposite to the provisions of the Extradition Act.
Chang loved immunity in his residence nation till it was lifted in January 2019, News24 reported.
This adopted a ruling from the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on 8 April, 2019 – pending the justice minister’s decision – that Chang must be extradited to the US.
The High Court subsequently put aside the minister’s [Masutha] decision to extradite Chang to Mozambique. To the extent that the minister’s decision dismissed the US extradition request, it was additionally put aside.
The courtroom ordered that each choices have been remitted to the present minister [Lamola] for willpower.
Chang was wished by the US in reference to allegations of conspiracy to commit fraud and taking thousands and thousands of {dollars} in bribes in a $2 billion mortgage scandal, News24 beforehand reported.
The former finance minister was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport on 29 December 2018 whereas on his manner to Dubai, and has been in custody since.
In February 2020 – the Mozambican authorities determined to withdraw bids to have Chang extradited, and left it within the arms of Lamola.
Source: News24
Show comments
Also read
Leave a Reply
Be the First to Comment!
You must be logged in to post a comment.
You must be logged in to post a comment.