By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, July 22 – As international bribery scandals particularly in Portuguese speaking countries involving UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and his family expand but are not acted on by US prosecutors, apparently due to immunity, their EDNY case against Mozambique former minister Manuel Chang is heating up:
"July 20, 2013 By FedEx Adam Ford, Esq. Arthur Kuroroff, Esq. Ford O’Brien Landy, LLP 275 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10016
Re: United States v. Manuel Chang et al. Criminal Docket No. 18-681 (NGG)
Dear Counsel: Enclosed please find a production in furtherance of the government’s discovery in accordance with Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The government also requests reciprocal discovery from the defendant." See July 20, 2023 discovery letter on Patreon here.
On Saturday, July 22, the prosecutors wrote to Judge Garaufis: "Re: United States v. Manuel Chang Criminal Docket No. 18-681 (NGG) The government respectfully submits this letter pursuant to the Court’s July 19, 2023 order. The government has conferred with counsel for the MDC, who stated that the defendant has been provided with all of his medications. The government has also conferred with counsel for the defendant, who stated that they spoke with the defendant this morning and he confirmed that he has received his medications. The government therefore respectfully requests that the hearing scheduled for July 24, 2023 be cancelled."
Amid Guterres' cover-up of his role in Lisbon based Gulbenkian Foundation's attempted sale of its Partex Oil and Gas' operations in Angola and elsewhere, there's been this other case in Federal Court in New York City, this time in Brooklyn, with another UN bribery echo. Credit Suisse's Global Financing Group's Andrew Pearse, Detelina Subeva and Surjan Singh pled guilty; Pearse and Singh testified for the prosecution at Boustani's trial. Three former officials of Mozambique, including ex-Finance Minister Manuel Chang, are also charged in the case, as is Privinvest's chief financial officer, Najib Allam, but they have not made U.S. court appearances. Chang was detained in South Africa but has now been extradited to the U.S.
The case is US v. Boustani et al., 18-cr-00681 (NGG).
According to a report by the Portuguese news agency Lusa, Credit Suisse argues that the Mozambican government guarantee for the Proindicus loan is binding, and that the bank is entitled to the payment of damages.
What Lusa does not report is Antonio Guterres' links not only to UN briber CEFC China Energy, but the money he took from Angola's dos Santos family to get / buy the UNSG position. We'll have more on this.
