“I respect the decision of the Court and I have nothing to comment on,” said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in Porto Santo, Madeira archipelago, where he is on vacation until Saturday.
The head of state stressed that he never comments on judges’ decisions related to ongoing investigations, reinforcing: “In this case, I have been asked over time what I have to say. I don’t say anything, because it is a matter of court of justice “.
Rui Pinto was released today, with the obligation to make weekly presentations to the Judicial Police (PJ), according to a Lusa judicial source.
The same source indicated that the defendant, who since April 8 this year was under house arrest and banned from accessing the internet, is now “obliged to report to the PJ weekly”.
Rui Pinto starts to be tried on September 4 at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon for 90 crimes: 68 of undue access, 14 of violation of correspondence, six of illegitimate access and also for computer sabotage to Sporting SAD and for attempted extortion to Doyen investment fund.
The amendment to the coercion measure was decided by the judge in charge of the case, Margarida Alves, president of the panel of judges who will judge Rui Pinto, following a request made by the defendant’s defense requesting his release.
