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Inspector José Amador, of the Judicial Police (PJ), said yesterday, in the fifth trial of Rui Pinto, in the Campus of Justice, in Lisbon, that the creator of Football Leaks had in his possession hundreds of complete mailboxes, some of them with high names in the judiciary, such as former attorney general Joana Marques Vidal, but also María José Morgado, Amadeu Correia and Adriano Cunha. “This was a bit of Pandora’s box,” he launched, in a session in which the witness further explained that the PJ took four years to obtain the exact location of the hacker and that this was only possible through a trip by his father and stepmother. to Budapest.
José Amador also said that in March 2019, after returning from Budapest, where he had gone to carry out Rui Pinto’s extradition order, he was missing two bags of evidence (out of a total of 26) and realized that the remaining material had been tampered with because the seals were broken. “It amazed me, it was a mixture of surprise and panic,” he said, before the jury chaired by Margarida Alves. Only one day later she would be informed that the Hungarian police equivalent to the Portuguese PJ had taken all the computer evidence collected in Rui Pinto’s house to copy them at the request of the French authorities, as part of a process in which the hacker will be. witness.
Later, the judges wanted to know if the evidence had been manipulated, corrupted, which would have rendered it ineffective, as claimed by the defense, who requested an expert opinion. José Amador explained that everything indicated no, due to the fact that the digital summary is the same, also recalling that the “overwhelming majority” of the seized material (totaling 23 terabytes) was encrypted and only later could it be accessed through passwords. provided by Rui Pinto.
