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“However, in early November, the defendant realized the serious mistake what he had incurred when contacting and negotiating with Nélio Lucas the possibility of ending the Football Leaks disclosures, ”the document states. What Rui Pinto wanted was for the world of football to know “the truth about the dark business of football”, which he decided to continue doing, renouncing the “extortion attempt for good.”
The secret meeting between Rui Pinto’s former lawyer and Doyen – with the PJ at the next table
Sporting was also one of the alleged targets of Rui Pinto or, as he prefers to explain in defense, one of the entities that aroused his “interest”. Why? For various reasons: the “controversy” termination of coach Marco Silva’s contract, the “controversies with Doyen Sports Investment Limited, the”Lack of transparency in the transfer of coach Jorge Jesús with a whole media novel around him, a contract with the board that seemed quite beneficial for the club and, above all, ties with Angola, specifically Álvaro Sobrinho’s investment through Holdimo – Investimentos e Participações, SA with money from Banco Espírito Santo de Angola ”, the document reads.
According to the prosecution, Rui Pinto emails from various people at Sporting and collected confidential documents. More: carried out a series of attacks on the club’s mail server that paralyzed it for three days. But in defense, the assumption hacker guarantees “not only there was no intention to cause a service interruption since he did not even, by proceeding as he proceeded, admitted such a possibility.
Already “the interest” in relation to the Portuguese Football Federation “is related to the prolonged impunity in sports corruption issues”. Considering that the FPF “deals with these issues” in an “unprofessional way”, also here the alleged hacker went to work. And, in the end, he concluded that the “serious legal problems” that Rui Pinto would denounce between 2015 and 2018, “justified his concern,” considers the defense in the defense.
