POLITICS OF EXTRADITION : Johannesburg High Court extends order to forbid Justice Minister Lamola from extraditing Manuel Chang to Mozambique

The FMO’s case rests heavily on a memorandum which Lamola himself, as well as deputy justice minister John Jeffery, the state law adviser and other senior officials all signed, recommending that Chang be extradited to the US.

Though Lamola’s team claimed they had “inadvertently” failed to file the memorandum, the FMO said the obvious reason they had not done so was because “it destroys their case”. Du Plessis said the July 2020 memorandum made it clear that Lamola and his top advisers all really believed that Chang should be extradited to the US and had presented no justification for the decision to extradite him to Mozambique. There were no new facts in the case and so no reason to remit the decision to Lamola.

William Makhori, representing the Mozambique government, noted that Maputo had issued two arrest warrants for Chang, in January 2019 and February 2020, and an indictment against him in November 2020. It had also begun investigating Chang in the Hidden Debts case as early as 2015, when it had sought legal assistance from the US and others.

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