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Rui Pinto, creator of the platform and the only face of Football Leaks, gave an interview to the German magazine Der Spiegel in which he assured that during the more than 12 months that he was in preventive detention he prepared his trial, which begins next Friday. 4th of September.
“Obviously, no one can endure isolation for long. Anyway, I’m proud of myself for handling all of this quite well. “, said. “I knew that clearly I couldn’t lose my sanity, because I had a whole life ahead of me and I had to focus on the judgment. I had to get to the cool trial, to show them that I’m here to fight, that I’m a whistleblower [denunciante]. I did what I have to do. “
In the report that accounts for this interview, Der Spiegel, who published some of the main reports resulting from Football Leaks (including the one that denounced the flight of the tax authorities of Cristiano Ronaldo in Spain, and that led the Portuguese player to be sentenced on pain of suspension and payment of 20 million euros), says that the interview took place in a rural area “not far from Lisbon.”
“He may be officially released, but he has to consult the police every time he wants to leave, so that possible risks can be discussed,” the text reads. To arrange the interview, Rui Pinto sent a message to a chat Encrypted Der Spiegel journalists, making an appointment in the “parking lot of a supermarket far from Lisbon”.
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At the scene, says the magazine, a car appeared, asking to be followed, in the middle of “hairpin turns, apparently to keep potential pursuers away.” The journalists only saw Rui Pinto after all this, at a service station, where the alleged hacker He got out of the back of the car wearing a cap, sunglasses, and a mask.
In addition to the world of football, Rui Pinto has been concentrating with special dedication on the Angolan case, recently committing himself to accusations with the daughter of the former president of Angola, Isabel dos Santos, a public matter that arises later, when Rui Pinto still He was in preventive prison, the Luanda leaks were published. The alleged hacker The 31-year-old made it known, at that time, that it was he who was behind this leak of information.
Rui Pinto and Isabel dos Santos “trapped” on Twitter. “Is it true that they will pay you a salary and give you a house?”
“It is disgusting to see how Portugal became the laundry of the Angolan elites”he says now in the interview with Der Spiegel.
Rui Pinto was in preventive detention since March 22, 2019 and was placed under house arrest on April 8 of this year, but in a home provided by the Judicial Police. At the request of the defendant’s defense, Judge Margarida Alves, president of the panel of judges that will judge Rui Pinto, decided to release him.
Rui Pinto was accused by the Public Ministry of 147 crimes. In addition to an attempt to extort Doyen, co-authored with the lawyer Aníbal Pinto, the prosecutor’s order also referred to a crime of illegitimate access to the PLMJ law firm, another of computer sabotage to the Sporting SAD, to which 74 crimes are added of illegitimate access, 63 crimes of violation of correspondence (to accounts of Sporting, Portuguese Football Federation, General Prosecutor’s Office, PLMJ, Doyen and Plataforma Score) and seven for aggravated violation of correspondence (in relation to Carlos Vieira, Sancho Freitas, Rui Caeiro and Pedro Almeida do Sporting and João Medeiros, Rui Costa Pereira and Inês de Almeida Costa, PLMJ lawyers).
At the investigation stage, Judge Cláudia Pina decided to convict him of 90 crimes.
PJ denies having hired Rui Pinto and guarantees that he does not pay the hacker “any salary”
