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Despite showing himself against Rui Pinto’s alleged attacks on the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) and arguing that “information obtained illegally should not have been disclosed”, President Fernando Gomes admits however that Football Leaks, the largest leakage of football, “may have had some positive influence”. Asked by Rui Pinto’s lawyers about whether the documents released in the site created by Rui Pinto contributed to the sporting truth, Fernando Gomes said:
This information obtained illegally should not have been disclosed. From a global perspective, I have to admit that I may have had some influence in this regard [para contribuir para verdade desportiva”.
Ouvido como testemunha esta terça-feira naquela que é a 23.ª sessão do julgamento do caso Football Leaks, Fernando Gomes defendeu que os “acordos entre entidades privadas a elas dizem respeito”, mas não vê “nenhum problema” na divulgação.
Não tenho nenhum problema em aceitar a divulgação total dos contratos [de jogadores e treinadores]”Said the president of the FPF.
Rui Pinto, the main defendant, is responsible for 90 crimes – all related to the fact that you have accessed the computer systems and mailboxes emails people linked to Sporting, Doyen, the PLMJ law firm, the Portuguese Football Federation, the Bar Association and the PGR. Among those targeted are Jorge Jesus, Bruno de Carvalho, the then director of DCIAP Amadeu Guerra or lawyer José Miguel Júdice. Thus, 68 are 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 the Doyen investment fund.
Aníbal Pinto, his lawyer at the time of the alleged crimes, is responsible for the crime of attempted extortion because he will have served as an intermediary for Rui Pinto in the alleged extortion attempt on Doyen. And that is why they both sit side by side, in front of the panel of judges.
Rui Pinto. The boy with the “spiky hair” who was already on the school computers before he was Football Leaks’ John
The alleged hacker has been in preventive detention since March 22, 2019 and was placed under house arrest on April 8 of this year, in a house provided by the PJ. Following a request made by the defendant’s defense, the judge Margarida Alves, president of the panel of judges – who is judging Rui Pinto and who has Judges Ana Paula Conceição and Pedro Lucas as assistant – decided to release him. The alleged hacker left PJ’s premises in early August and his current address is unknown.
