In view of this claim, the president of the panel of judges, Margarida Alves, granted a period of five days for the assistants in the process to comment.
The prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor, Marta Viegas, justified the presentation of the request because she believed that “future sessions” of the trial were “showing the originals of the seized objects”.
“They were never worked on, nor would it be possible. Everything that was done was based on copies so as not to tamper with the original ”, he argued.
After filing the application, the second session – dominated by the statements of lawyer Aníbal Pinto, accused of the crime of attempted extortion against Doyen – was closed, with the trial resuming on Wednesday, starting at 9:30 am , at the Justice Campus, in Lisbon.
Rui Pinto, 31, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 of undue access, 14 of violation of correspondence, six of illegitimate access, targeting entities such as Sporting, Doyen, the PLMJ law firm, the Portuguese Federation of Football and the Attorney General’s Office, and also for computer sabotage against Sporting’s SAD and for extortion, in the attempted form.
The creator of Football Leaks has been free since August 7, “due to his collaboration” with the Judiciary Police and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, inserted in the witness protection program at a local undisclosed and under police protection.
