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The lawyer Aníbal Pinto, accused in the Football Leaks case, said that the Judicial Police must “explain” the exchange of a letter with the lawyer Pedro Henriques, Doyen’s representative.
The lawyer Aníbal Pinto, accused in the Football Leaks case, said on Thursday that the Judicial Police (PJ) had to “explain” the exchange of a letter with the lawyer Pedro Henriques, Doyen’s representative, about the origin of the emails.
“I was surprised, I hope that the PJ has the dignity to explain this. It surprised me, I never saw a policeman like the Judiciary, in an investigation that is subject to professional secrecy, delivering this letter to the agent of one of the parties”, said the defendant. Leaving the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, adding: “If it is true that the PJ was working for Doyen, if it is Doyen who is in charge of the PJ, I cannot understand this.”
At stake are the statements of the PJ inspector José Miguel Amador, during the fourth session of the trial, in which the first witness who appeared before the jury admitted that Rui Pinto had knowledge of the letter between the PJ and the Russians of the operator Russian Yandex, which requests information on the origin of the emails that were exchanged between Doyen’s administrator, Nélio Lucas, and Rui Pinto (then still anonymous), from Pedro Henriques’ computer.
Asked by the president of the jury, Margarida Alves, about the reason for sharing this letter with the representative of Doyen, the inspector of the Judiciary was not very clear, explaining only that “it will have been shared to speed up the arrival of the Russians.” José Miguel Amador acknowledged that he had no direct knowledge of how this exchange took place and stressed that “it is not a habit” for PJ to act in this way.
“The PJ has the obligation to clarify public opinion. These are very serious things that remain unexplained,” Aníbal Pinto replied, reiterating: “What I heard is incredible: is the PJ at the service of Doyen? To be using others for Doesn’t he have international capacity? But does Doyen have more international capacity? He couldn’t understand. “
The defendant in the Football Leaks case also pointed out that José Amador’s statements emphasized that he did not do “anything illegal” in the meeting with Nélio Lucas and Pedro Henriques in the Oeiras service area, which served as the basis for the crime of attempting to extortion. .
“The inspector said they ambushed me to catch me in the act and the question is: why didn’t they arrest me? Because I don’t do anything illegal, everything I did was legal,” he said, continuing to repeat the question. his conviction that he will be acquitted.
Already on the brief words he exchanged with Rui Pinto before the start of the resumption of work in the afternoon, Aníbal Pinto guaranteed that he only asked if the creator of the electronic platform was okay and if he was “holding on” to the process, having wished ” Best of luck”. of the world”.
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