Ingilo Dalsuco, the son-in-law of former Finance Minister Manuel Chang - detained since last year in the United States of America (USA), where he is facing trial in connection with the hidden debt scandal - continues to sell properties to the state.

In February 2024, the Inhambane Provincial Directorate of Planning and Finance launched Public Tender No. 27I003461/CP/0002/2024 for the acquisition of a property. The winner of the tender was INVESTIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS, LDA of Ingilo Dalsuco.

The contract was awarded on March 28, 2024 for the sum of 269,420,000.00 meticais. The building in question has two floors. It is located opposite the facilities of the State Information and Security Service in Inhambane, where Ingilo Dalsuco, described in the political corridors as his father-in-law, Manuel Chang's iron fist, is famous for buying up ruins and turning them into buildings and then selling them at extremely high prices to the state, in an operation seen as money laundering, part of which is suspected to be the result of hidden debts.

Dalsuco is responsible for the sale of the buildings housing the Inhambane Provincial Court, the Provincial Directorate for Culture and Tourism, the National Communications Institute of Mozambique and the Inhambane Provincial Anti-Corruption Office.

Remember that in the deal to sell the building for the Judicial Court of Inhambane Province, INVESTIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS received 270 million meticais. It was a deal that was widely criticized at the time, on the one hand because it was done without a public tender and, on the other, because of the value involved, taking into account the characteristics of the property.

INVESTIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS, LDA is linked to Manuel Chang's family through his son-in-law, Ingilo Dalsuco. It should be remembered that, as Minister of Finance, Manuel Chang, known as "Chopstick" or "YellowMan" in the plot, received bribes worth around 10 million dollars from Privinvest for his role in enabling the hidden debts of more than two billion dollars contracted by Armando Guebuza's government in favor of the private companies EMATUM, ProIndicus and MAM.

Manuel Chang was arrested in South Africa in December 2018, in transit to Dubai, at the request of the US justice system

The Mozambican justice system, through the Attorney General's Office (PGR), entered the fight to extradite "Chopstick" to Maputo, but lost the battle thanks to the intervention of the Budget Monitoring Forum, a congregation of Mozambican non-governmental organizations, which argued that in Mozambique there was no guarantee that Chang would be subjected to a fair and transparent trial.

Last year, Chang was finally extradited to the US, where he is currently facing trial for defrauding US investors and using the US financial system to make money from bribes and commissions. Chang is also accused of laundering money from the crime, also using the US financial system.

In the political corridors, Ingilo Dalsuco is described as a figurehead for the Chang family. Dalsuco is believed to be investing the money his father-in-law received in the default.

Dalsuco is notorious for buying up ruins and turning them into buildings and then selling them at extremely high prices to the state, in an operation seen as money laundering, part of which is suspected to be the result of hidden debts.

Dalsuco is responsible for the sale of the buildings housing the Inhambane Provincial Court, the Provincial Directorate for Culture and Tourism, the National Communications Institute of Mozambique (INCM) and the Inhambane Provincial Anti-Corruption Office.

Thus, the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD) argues that the justice system should investigate all the business deals between the Mozambican state and INVESTIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS, LDA and other companies linked to Ingilo Dalsuco, starting with the purchase and sale of the buildings housing the Provincial Directorate of Planning and Finance, the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, INCM and the Inhambane Provincial Office for Combating Corruption. (Text and image) CDD)