The former Minister of Finance, Manuel Chang, is being tried by the US authorities in a New York court in the United States of America (USA). He is charged with the crimes of conspiracy to commit financial fraud and laundering money obtained through this conspiracy.

The prosecution is said to have presented evidence in court that Chang received a total of seven million dollars in bribes. Two million dollars to enable loans from ProIndicus and five million dollars to enable the loan to EMATUM.

The Center for Public Integrity (CIP) says that evidence has been presented that Manuel Chang's family members moved from Mozambique to other countries to receive money from the Hidden Debts. The list includes the names of his late wife, Lizete Chang, his daughter, Manuela Solange Chang, and his son-in-law, Ingilo Dalsuco. The latter is said to be Manuel Chang's figurehead in dubious real estate deals with the Mozambican state. They traveled to Dubai and Beirut, Lebanon, to receive the money from the hidden debts.

Luís Filipe Pereira Rocha Brito, a businessman working in the automobile industry in Mozambique, has been accused of receiving part of Chang's bribe. The same businessman is said to have returned all seven million dollars to the Mozambican Ministry of Finance, through a deposit in an account domiciled at the Bank of Mozambique, in November 2019, writes CIP.