Benfica coach Jorge Jesus appeared in Portuguese court on Tuesday to clarify the Football Leaks case. At the time he was training Sporting (between 2015 and 2018), the Portuguese had his professional contract leaked, in one of the cases that resulted in the arrest of hacker Rui Pinto.
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Jesus was heard for about 10 minutes at the Campus of Justice, in Lisbon, and admitted that he did not know what he was doing at the place
– I never gave it much importance. I don’t even know what I’m doing here. I don’t worry, I have nothing to hide. For me, it never created instability and there was nothing there that wasn’t true. I don’t know what the disclosure did to Sporting, I’m a football coach.
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Jesus stressed that it was public knowledge the value of his wages with the club, and also said that he always paid taxes. Mister also clarified that he did not use the e-mail account that would have been hacked by Rui Pinto.
The Portuguese hacker is the founder of Football Leaks, who revealed thousands of confidential documents related to the world of football, including the confidentiality agreement between Cristiano Ronaldo and Katherine Mayorga, the woman who accused him of rape that would have occurred in June 2010 in Las Vegas.
The 31-year-old was also behind the punishment against Manchester City, who was fined € 30 million and banned by UEFA from European competition for two seasons for failing to comply with financial fair play rules.
He was arrested on 22 March last year in Lisbon, accused of 90 crimes such as illegitimate access, violation of correspondence, computer sabotage and extortion attempt.
