Manuel Chang will spend eight and a half years in prison for taking about $7 million in bribes and kickbacks in a loan scandal that sent the country’s economy into a crisis.

A U.S. federal judge said Manuel Chang betrayed his country in one of the biggest debt-corruption scandals in Africa.

Mozambique President Daniel Chapo on Friday appointed Carla Louveira as finance minister and Estevão Pale as mineral resources and energy minister.

Mozambique’s former finance minister is set to be sentenced in a New York court on wire fraud and money laundering charges stemming from the infamous “tuna bond” scandal that triggered a financial cri