The investigating judge decided that Rui Pinto will go on trial for 242 crimes out of the 377 that appeared in the indictment, due to the amnesty during Pope Francis’ visit to Portugal being applied to 134 crimes.
Rui Pinto is on trial for 201 crimes of qualified illegitimate access, 23 crimes of aggravated mail violation and 18 crimes of computer damage. In the pronouncement order, the judge in the case also announced the removal of one of the crimes of qualified illegitimate access for which the defendant was being accused, which increased the total number of crimes of this type from 202 to 201, for which he was pronounced.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office charged the hacker with 377 crimes of illegitimate access, tampering with correspondence and aggravated damage. In relation to this process, the creator of Football Leaks is responsible for 377 crimes related to access to emails from Benfica and other clubs, the League of clubs, companies, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, the Tax Authority and the National Internal Security Network.
According to the indictment, 202 crimes of illegitimate access, 134 of violation of correspondence, 23 of aggravated violation of correspondence and 18 of aggravated damage are involved.
Furthermore, at the end of the instructional debate, the application of the amnesty law, approved last year due to the World Youth Days, to 134 of the 377 crimes attributed to the creator of Football Leaks was on the table.
Rui Pinto, who missed the end of the instructional debate, on February 2nd, because he was in France collaborating with European authorities in a process, faces a new process after being convicted, in the ‘Football Leaks’ case, in September last year , by the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon, then to four years in prison with a suspended sentence, for crimes of attempted extortion, aggravated mail violation and illegitimate access.
The 35-year-old man was sentenced, in November 2023, to six months in prison in France, with a suspended sentence, for illegally accessing Paris Saint-Germain emails.
2024-03-04 08:00:00
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