JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African judge ruled on Wednesday that the detention of Mozambican former finance minister Manuel Chang over $2 billion (1.5 billion pounds) of fraudulent loans was legal.
Lawyers for Chang, who was arrested in South Africa on Dec. 29 and denies wrongdoing, argued in court on Tuesday that his detention on U.S. charges was illegal because a request for extradition had not yet been received.
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