The information was transmitted today to Lusa news agency by a judicial source, adding that Paulo Registro, of Judge 18, will be the president of the collective of judges, also composed by judges Ana Paula Conceição and Helena Leitão, with no date yet for the beginning of the trial, in which Rui Pinto will answer for 90 crimes.
This group of judges is the same one that will judge the ‘e-mole’ case (which is still awaiting decision on a pending appeal), whose main defendant is the former legal advisor of SAD do Benfica Paulo Gonçalves, but in this case the owner of the case is judge Ana Paula Conceição.
Rui Pinto, who had been in preventive detention since March 22, 2019, was placed under house arrest on April 8, but in housing provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) and without internet access, with the order of the criminal investigation judge ( JIC) Cláudia Pina justifying that the defendant has “now a critical sense and a willingness to collaborate with justice”.
In January of this year, the Criminal Instruction Court of Lisbon decided to bring to trial lawyer Aníbal Pinto (only for the crime of attempted extortion against Doyen), and Rui Pinto for 90 crimes of illegitimate access, improper access, violation of correspondence, sabotage information technology and attempted extortion, but dropped 57 of the 147 crimes for which the accused had been accused by the Public Ministry (MP).
However, the prosecutor of MP Patrícia Barão appealed the decision to the Court of Appeal of Lisbon (TRL), arguing that the defendant should be tried for the 147 crimes included in the indictment, awaiting this decision, which has no effect. suspensive trial.
In September 2019, the MP accused Rui Pinto of 147 crimes, 75 of which of illegitimate access, 70 of violation of correspondence, seven of them aggravated, one of computer sabotage and one of attempted extortion, for accessing Sporting’s computer systems, Doyen, the law firm PLMJ, the Portuguese Football Federation and the Attorney General’s Office, and subsequent disclosure of dozens of confidential documents of these entities.
After being arrested in Hungary and sent to Portugal under a European arrest warrant, Rui Pinto assumed the delivery of a hard drive to the Whistleblower Protection Platform in Africa, which allowed the revelation of Luanda Leaks, a corruption case related to Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos.
In the court order that ordered the change of the coercive measure, to which Lusa had access, the JIC states that, “analyzing the defendant’s claim” regarding the change of the coercive measure and “the information sent” by the PJ, it appears that at the moment “the precautionary requirements are altered” regarding the application of preventive detention, adding that a less onerous coercive measure “sufficiently ensures the dangers of escape, preservation of evidence and continuation of criminal activity”.
“On the one hand, the defendant reversed his stance, now showing a critical sense and a willingness to collaborate with justice, on the other hand, at this time the borders are subject to high controls due to the pandemic [da covid-19], which in itself reduces the risk of escape, and it is also important to emphasize that the accused should be given, like any other citizen, the best possible conditions to remain healthy and safe”, justifies the judge.
In possession of the investigation are ten hard disks encrypted by Rui Pinto and to which the PJ has not yet been able to access.
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