Rui Pinto’s defense, which was to close three days of final arguments this Friday in the Football Leaks trial, should only plead on January 16, at the request of Aníbal Pinto’s defense, who suspended the session.
The court decided to grant two days for the defense of the creator of the electronic platform and the Public Ministry to analyze the lawsuit, which cites a preliminary report made by a company to Aníbal Pinto’s computer at the request of the defendant in this process, who allegedly indicated that an email sent in 2015 by Pedro Henriques, lawyer for Doyen’s CEO, Nélio Lucas, represented a phishing attack.
“It is not possible to continue with the complaints. The court gives two days”, said the investigating judge Margarida Alves, after this request caused an interruption of work that lasted for about 45 minutes and after the positions taken by the different assistants in the process. in this issue.
And if the Bar Association or Sporting avoided commenting, most of the attendees criticized Aníbal Pinto and his defense, pointing out “delaying maneuvers” and defending that the request -which requests a computer expertise and the cross-examination of witnesses José Amador- Rogério Bravo, Nélio Lucas and Pedro Henriques, was rejected.
However, the prosecutor began by asking for a period to study the issue and then said that it could already be pronounced in the afternoon, but as Rui Pinto’s lawyer, Francisco Teixeira da Mota, warned about the “complexity” and the “technical issues” . raised with the request, the court ended up granting two days for this analysis, remitting the continuation of the trial to January 16.
Rui Pinto, 34, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 for improper access, 14 for violation of correspondence, six for illegitimate access, directed at entities such as Sporting, Doyen, the PLMJ law firm, the Portuguese Federation de Fútbol (FPF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), as well as for computer sabotage of Sporting’s SAD and for extortion, in the form of an attempt. This last crime concerns Doyen and was the one that also motivated the pronunciation of the lawyer Aníbal Pinto.
The creator of Football Leaks has been free since August 7, 2020, “due to his collaboration” with the Judicial Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but he is, for security reasons, included in witness protection in a undisclosed location. and under police protection.
Source: TSF
