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The former sporting director of Sporting says the suspicions “hurt” him. It was heard this Wednesday in another session of the Football Leaks trial.
The former sporting director of Sporting, Octávio Machado, confessed this Wednesday that he was “injured” by the suspicions that, he said, arose when accessing his email, in the hearing held in the 12th session of the Football Leaks trial.
“I felt hurt when I had the feeling that someone might suspect that I could have done something illegal,” said former soccer official Leo, adding: “I felt violated in my right to privacy and that I was suspicious of any citizen. This shocked me deeply and I will not confess it to anyone. “
Octávio Machado admitted that he used the electronic mailbox little and that he only found out that someone accessed the email when the authorities informed him of this situation.
At the same time, former coach “Leonino” had difficulty identifying some court documents that were published in 2015 on the platform created by Rui Pinto, recognizing only a compromise agreement between Sporting and the Peruvian player Andre Carrillo.
Asked by the Public Ministry (MP) about the computer attack on the Alvalade club and the impact caused by the disclosure of documents on the Internet, Octávio Machado was somewhat surprised and stressed that he “never” thought that anyone “had an interest” in his computer.
“I never thought it had the dimension it got to, but it didn’t affect me and I wasn’t too worried,” he said.
Still in the morning at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, the panel of judges also heard the witnesses Rui Caeiro and Paulo Antunes, who were part of the Sporting SAD.
Rui Caeiro, who also served as a member of the club’s Board of Directors, was confronted with four documents by the MP and had difficulty recognizing that they had passed through his email. Indeed, the former leader only identified a document that “very likely” had passed through his mailbox because it had his signature.
Paulo Antunes, former non-executive director of SAD “leonina”, assumed with “absolute certainty” that he did not change his e-mail password and that it was only used for club-related matters. “I only knew that I would have had access to my email when the Judicial Police called me,” admitted the lawyer.
The trial continues in the afternoon with the hearing of witnesses Augusto Inácio, Vicente Moura and José Laranjeira.
Rui Pinto, 31, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 of improper access, 14 of violation of correspondence, six of illegitimate access, directed at entities such as Sporting, Doyen, PLMJ law firm, Portuguese Football Federation ( FPF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and also for computer sabotage of the Sporting SAD and for extortion, in the tempted manner. This last crime concerns Doyen and was also the one that motivated the pronunciation of the lawyer Aníbal Pinto.
The creator of Football Leaks has been free since August 7, “due to his collaboration” with the Judicial Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, inserted in the witness protection program in a place undisclosed and under police protection.
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