Mozambique: Debts – Chang Still Pleading for Early Release

Maputo — Mozambique’s former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, is continuing to appeal for early release from a United States prison, although this plea has already been rejected once by the Justice Department.

Chang is serving an eight and a half year sentence in the state of Connecticut, after he was found guilty in a New York court on charges of fraud and money laundering arising from Mozambique’s largest financial scandal, known as the case of the “hidden debts’.

The request for early release…