The death of Italian-Mozambican businessman Umberto Sartori last Friday inside the Machava Maximum Security Prison, popularly known as BO, has further raised concerns over conditions, accountability, and internal dynamics within Mozambique’s most fortified detention facility. His death comes just over a year after the highprofile demise of Momade Assif “Nini” Satar, one of the most emblematic figures in the country’s recent criminal history, who was also found dead within the same prison walls in March 2025. At face glance, Nini Satar and Umberto Sartori inhabited entirely different universes. Satar carried the weight of one of Mozambique’s most consequential criminal cases, forever linked to the assassination of journalist Carlos Cardoso and to the multimilliondollar fraud that shook the former Banco...
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Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang has finally been extradited to the United States after a protracted extradition battle played out in South African courts.
On Wednesday, South Africa’s Justice and Correctional Services surrendered Chang to US Marshals Service, who promptly flew him to the US, where he is to be tried on charges of fraud.
Click on the picture to see the timeline from his arrest on 29 December 2018 to his extradition on 12 July 2023.
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A pensive Manuel Chang in one of his court appearances in Gauteng (South Africa)Photo: News24 The...
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