Mozambique: Debts – Chang Will Not Give Evidence

Maputo — As the trial of Mozambique’s former finance minister, Manuel Chang, draws to a close in New York, he has opted to remain silent, and so will leave his defence entirely in the hands of his lawyers.

No more witnesses will be called, and the trial has entered into the phase of the summing up by the prosecution and the defence.

Key to the trial is the accusation that Chang took seven million dollars in bribes from the Abu Dhabi based group, Privinvest.

The bribes were part of the scandal…