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| Video Discription | (4 Sep 2020) The trial of a Portuguese hacker whose explosive financial revelations about European soccer embarrassed star players, top clubs, influential agents and continental officials began in Lisbon on Friday. Rui Pinto, 31, admits he was behind the exposés published between 2015-18 on the "Football Leaks" website, where he used the pseudonym "John," but argues he is a whistleblower, not a criminal. Pinto was extradited last year from Hungary where he had lived since 2015. The website published information about the transfer fees and salaries of such stars as Brazil's Neymar, then at FC Barcelona, Radamel Falcao at AS Monaco and Gareth Bale at Real Madrid. It also alleged Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain flouted European soccer's spending rules. His lawyers say Pinto has helped authorities in Europe and beyond to tackle crime in the sport, especially murky financial dealings. They say Pinto was about to enter a witness protection program in France, with whose authorities he was cooperating on soccer investigations, before he was arrested. They say he also cooperated with authorities in Belgium, Switzerland and Malta. Police in Portugal say he has helped with their inquiries, too, prompting a Lisbon judge to release Pinto from pre-trial custody a month ago. Pinto is arguing that the ends justify the means. He insists he was motivated by public duty in exposing serious crimes that authorities missed. His lawyers said in a letter to the trial judge Pinto was "outraged" by illicit money-making in the sport and investigated what was going on because authorities weren't doing enough. Pinto says a "substantial part" of the documents he published were anonymously leaked to him, not hacked. Pinto faces 90 charges relating to hacking computers, including at the Portuguese attorney general's office, the Portuguese Football Federation, a major Lisbon law firm, Sporting Lisbon soccer club, and Doyen sports management company. Sporting Lisbon also accuses him of sabotage, while Doyen alleges extortion. If found guilty on all counts, Pinto could face decades in prison. Among Pinto's defence witnesses are US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency and may testify by video link from Russia. The defence has also called Portugal's chief detective, Luis Neves. Pinto also says he was behind an exposé earlier this year about alleged financial wrongdoing in Angola, a former Portuguese colony in Africa, which became known as the "Luanda Leaks" in a reference to that country's capital. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1224a73850eb48dda1341c50b834c91d |
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