The Lisbon District Judicial Court rejected a new investigation into the computer material seized from Rui Pinto, requested by the defendant in the Football Leaks case, according to an order handed down this Monday, to which Lusa had access.
“(…) The court understands that the conduct of the expertise required by the defendant Rui Pedro Gonçalves Pinto does not seem useful, since the analysis that would be carried out would always focus on the same images / content already analyzed by the PJ, published in digital report with the records “, indicates the dispatch.
In the application submitted to the panel of judges who is judging the case, Rui Pinto’s defense raised “the possible breach of the genuineness of the material analyzed” by the Judicial Police (PJ), but the court found “no use / interest for the discovery of material truth in the realization of new expertise “.
“From the information collected in the present case, there is no evidence that the expertise carried out by the PJ is contradictory, has started from incorrect factual assumptions or has been carried out without observing the best technical practices”, says the dispatch.
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 (FPF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and also for computer sabotage to Sporting’s SAD and for extortion, in the attempted form. This last crime concerns Doyen and was also what led to the pronunciation of the lawyer Aníbal Pinto.
The creator of Football Leaks has been free since August 7, “due to his collaboration” with the PJ and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, inserted in the witness protection program in a place not revealed and under police protection.
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