The decision of the Mozambican government to enter the dispute for the extradition, to Mozambique, of the former finance minister, Manuel Chang, is costing millions of meticais to the state coffers. Since July 2019, the Government has paid at least 23 million rand (more than 100 million meticais) to the law firm "Mabunda Incorporated Attorneys At Law”, South African law firm representing the Attorney General's Office in South African courts in the Chang case.
The Public Integrity Center (CIP) is against the Mozambican government's intention to extradite Manuel Chang to Mozambique. He understands that Manuel Chang must be extradited and tried in the US and later transferred to Mozambique, where he can also be tried. The CIP argues that the Attorney General's Office should give up trying to extradite Manuel Chang to Mozambique and concentrate efforts on recovering assets from hidden debts and on investigating and prosecuting the defendants already detained in Mozambique.
