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Pressured by Rui Pinto’s defense if the document was linked to a decree of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, the lawyer protected himself from professional secrecy.
The public interest in the documents and information exposed by Rui Pinto on the Internet was questioned today by lawyers linked to the PLMJ, in the 18th session of the “Football Leaks” trial.
At the hearing held today at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, the lawyer Diogo Campos, a specialist in Public and Administrative Law and who saw his mailbox at the PLMJ office allegedly accessed by the creator of the electronic platform, stressed that he never had had a related case. with football.
“I have nothing that may be of interest to the public on my computer,” said the lawyer, who admitted to making professional and personal use of the equipment, of which he only acknowledged the disclosure of a document that could be in the respective system. “I have my whole life there,” he said, while highlighting the “debauchery and intrusion into private life” and equated the situation with an assault on his own home.
However, Diogo Campos refused to answer in court about possible links to the “Luanda Leaks” case, which exposed in January 2020 alleged financial schemes of businesswoman Isabel dos Santos and her husband, Sindika Dokolo, which would have allowed them to withdraw money from the treasury. Angolan public through tax havens.
Pressured by Rui Pinto’s defense if the document was linked to a decree of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, the lawyer protected himself from professional secrecy. “I cannot identify if they are or were my clients. I will never violate professional secrecy,” he said.
The lawyer José Ricardo Gonçalves, who was in the PLMJ between 2009 and 2018 and is also an arbitrator in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD), summarized the issue of interference in the computer system of that company, noting that “there is no justification to have direct or indirect unauthorized access “.
A document analyzed in the courtroom by the lawyer, at the request of the Public Ministry (MP), and which was revealed in the blog “Mercado de Benfica” was a statement related to Gelson Martins, which the plaintiff acknowledged having been ” drawn up by him “. “and that” has no public interest “, in addition to the fact that the parties involved in this document have defined its confidentiality.
“Confidentiality does not make it impossible for someone to want to know. There are mechanisms to raise this confidentiality, but it is before the courts,” said José Ricardo Gonçalves, who also confirmed that he had collaborated with the team led by the lawyer João Medeiros and that it was at the end of 2018 one of the faces of the defense of the SAD of Benfica in the case “E-toupeira”.
Before these testimonies, there was also the deposition by videoconference of Miguel Reis, a member of the board of directors and responsible for the supervision of the fiscal area of that law firm. According to the lawyer, there was a document that contained his name and that “was published in” Luanda Leaks “”.
Questioned by Rui Pinto’s defense regarding the relationship with the company Supreme Treasure, Lda, of which he became one of the partners and that participated in 2016 in the acquisition of Casa Manoel de Oliveira – later announced as the new headquarters of the Sindika Dokolo Foundation for Europe -, Miguel Reis clarified that he was no longer linked to that company at the time of the negotiation and said that he did not know if Mário Leite da Silva, representative of Isabel dos Santos, was the manager.
“This company was more years ago, it was mine and that of a colleague and it was used for a public tender for the purchase of the Manoel de Oliveira house when he was no longer a partner,” he stated.
At the same time, four secretaries who worked at PLMJ between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 were also heard, all of them converging in their ignorance of the reasons why the respective computers were accessed. Isabel Mascarenhas, who has already stopped working in society, even assumed that today she only knew in court that Rui Pinto supposedly accessed her computer.
The trial continues on Thursday from 9:30 am with the hearings of the coaches Filipe Celikkaya and Paulo Henriques, the lawyers Pedro Rosa, Maria Diogo Tavares, Manuel Rocha, António Moreira, Francisco Martins, Maria João Mata, the secretary Sónia Pacheco and the person in charge of the security of the information technologies in PLMJ Jordão Palma.
Rui Pinto, 31, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 for improper access, 14 for violation of correspondence, six for 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 tentative 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, “for his collaboration” with the Judicial Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but for security reasons, he is part of the witness protection program in a place not revealed and under police protection.
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