Former Sporting President Bruno de Carvalho considered this Thursday that ‘Football Leaks’ was “extremely useful” to publicly reinforce some positions he defended.
Former Sporting President Bruno de Carvalho considered this Thursday that ‘Football Leaks’ was “extremely useful” to publicly reinforce some positions he defended while leading the club and “took his hat off” to the platform’s creator, Rui Pinto.
“Rui Pinto must be taken off his hat, because it is only after he appears that there are cases in a series of investigations,” said the former Sporting leader, alluding to the disclosure in the 13th trial session of the Football Leaks case other cases, such as Luanda Leaks.
He also underlined the effect of document disclosure in the battle against investment funds: “It has even been beneficial for me to try to introduce contracts with Doyen to UEFA”. Bruno de Carvalho assumed that he learned only this Thursday that there were accesses to Sporting’s email system from an address originating in Hungary prior to September 22, 2015, the day on which the system crash occurred and on which allegedly the main defendant in the case sent three attacks.
“Nobody had ever commented to me that there had been hits from Hungary before September 22, this is something new for me”, confessed the former ‘Leonino’ president, who also revealed that the email that the Judicial Police (PJ) signed up for investigation like yours and that the creator of Football Leaks had allegedly accessed was not correct.
“When I was called, I realized that the email that the PJ investigated and that was in the process was not mine. I called my director colleague Alexandre Godinho, he gave me the correct one, the PJ changed the documents and gave me to sign. Rui Pinto entered a Bruno’s email, but he missed the target “, he declared, even before provoking laughter in the audience room when he commented or even knowing if Rui Pinto was in the room:” If you are, it’s the the first time that we are in the same place “.
Faced with the impact of the disruption in Sporting’s email system, Bruno de Carvalho described the morning of September 22 as “a hustle and bustle” due to the ‘crash’ on the server and the concern of some people, but argued that the impossibility of access did not it would be a consequence of an alleged computer attack.
“I never realized that Sporting had stopped. It was found that we had a weak system, they proposed a series of changes to the administration and were accepted. What I noticed in the next two or three days is that the technicians asked not to access it, because they were introducing internal measures and that forced him to stop several times “, he observed, assuring that he had not linked” great thing “to Football Leaks,” never “having accessed it and that he did not feel any” reputational problem “due to the disclosure of club documents on the Internet.
The ex-president of Sporting made a point of recalling that some documents had already been publicly exposed by sports commentators related to rival Benfica on television programs, before publication on the electronic platform created by Rui Pinto.
“When Sporting made the complaint to the Judiciary Police, I immediately conveyed the concern that there would be commentators from the rival club talking about Sporting documents,” he said, adding: “Things have progressed for this process, and I would like to see how these people had access to documents before Rui Pinto “.
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, 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 for security reasons, he is part of the protection program of witnesses in an undisclosed location and under police protection.
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