This debacle culminated in a United States court sentencing former Finance Minister Manuel Chang to eight-and-a-half years for fraud and money laundering on 17 January (AC Vol 64 No 25 'Corruption defence' in loans trial)...

He was also angered by South Africa's arrest and subsequent extradition of Mozambique's former finance minister Manuel Chang to face trial in the United States...

He agreed that payments totalling over $7m by Privinvest to then-Finance Minister Manuel Chang were bribes...

VTB should also have known Maputo's counsel argued that former Finance Minister Manuel Chang who is about to go on trial in New York after being extradited from South Africa had no authority to sign the state guarantee of the loans without parliamentary approval which nullifies the guarantee (Dispatches 28/6/23 Maputo's ex-finance chief to face New York trial in hidden loan scandal)...

Nyusi may yet face embarrassment when former finance minister Manuel Chang stands trial in New York on charges connected to the loans (Dispatches 28/6/23 Maputo's ex-finance chief to face New York trial in hidden loan scandal)...

Knowles added dryly that the email account of former Finance Minister Manuel Chang was provided but 'its contents appear to have been deleted'...

While Nyusi weathered that storm it remains likely that former Finance Minister Manuel Chang will soon be extradited to the United States from South Africa and if Chang decides to tell all it could have serious implications for the President...

The United States and Mozambican governments have been fighting for the right to extradite former finance minister Manuel Chang from South Africa to face money-laundering and fraud charges but Maputo's efforts are running out of road...