The court decided this Tuesday to extract a certificate from the ‘Football Leaks’ process to investigate the inspector of the Judiciary Police (PJ) Aida Freitas for alleged falsity of document and false statements, after the testimony of the witness at the trial.
The decision of the collective of judges presided over by Margarida Alves took place in the 31st session of the trial underway at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, following a request by the Public Prosecutor (MP), Marta Viegas, who indicated that Aida Freitas “ signed a report without the content corresponding to the truth”, pointing out a possible incursion “in a crime of falsehood of document or falsehood of declarations”.
At issue is the fact that the PJ inspector said that she signed without reading the External Diligence Report (RDE) of the surveillance operation at the meeting between the former CEO of the Doyen investment fund, Nélio Lucas, and his collaborator Pedro Henriques with Defendant Aníbal Pinto, in the service area of the A5 motorway, in Oeiras, on October 22, 2015, and who was also not responsible for its preparation.
Aida Freitas was inside the space with fellow inspector Hugo Monteiro, a few meters away, and assured that she had not heard “anything” of the conversation between the interveners, pointing out the possible authorship of the RDE to inspector José Amador, who led the investigation of the ‘Football Leaks’ process and which was located outside the catering space in that service area. The witness even assumed that “if I had read it at the time, I would not have signed”.
This is already the second certificate extracted from the ‘Football Leaks’ process to verify the conduct of a member of the PJ. On December 10, the court had validated the extraction of a certificate to investigate inspector Rogério Bravo, after a request from the defense of the defendant Aníbal Pinto, who, after the testimony of the lawyer and collaborator of Doyen Pedro Henriques, considered that they were “strongly indicted for the practice. crimes of false testimony, corruption, abuse of power and denial of justice”.
Rui Pinto, 32, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 of improper access, 14 of violation of correspondence, six of illegitimate access, targeting entities such as Sporting, Doyen, the law firm PLMJ, the Portuguese Federation of Football (FPF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and also for computer sabotage to Sporting’s SAD and extortion, as attempted. This last crime concerns Doyen and it was also what led to the prosecution of 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, included in the program of witness protection in an undisclosed location and under police protection.
