The trial of the Football Leaks case, which takes place at the Campus de Justiça in Lisbon, was suspended this Wednesday due to the positive case of COVID-19 of a relative of one of the judges of the collective.
About 15 minutes after the start of the 27th session of the trial, at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, the panel of judges abruptly interrupted the session, with the panel’s president, Margarida Alves, returning shortly afterwards to explain that the hearing would have to be suspended due to information received from a positive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the relative of one of the judges.
“We are going to interrupt the trial for the next 14 days. I don’t know when we will be able to resume, they will be notified later ”, declared the president of the panel of judges.
Rui Pinto, 32, 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, 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 Judiciary Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, inserted in the protection program of witnesses in an undisclosed location and under police protection.
Rui Pinto, 32, 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, 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 Judiciary Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, inserted in the protection program of witnesses in an undisclosed location and under police protection.
