Rui Pinto, the Portuguese behind the Football Leaks case, was sentenced this Wednesday to six months in prison, suspended, by the Paris Court of Justice for illegally accessing Paris Saint-Germain emails.
The judge agreed with the sentence handed down by French prosecutors during a preliminary plea hearing, which also admitted 35-year-old Rui Pinto, who was responsible for leaking private information that shook the foundations of world football.
“I accept the facts of which I am accused. I see no reason to delay the trial any longer. I have been involved in the judicial bureaucracy in Portugal for five years now for facts that may be similar to those for which I am here,” the Portuguese said in court.
Rui Pinto was found guilty of illegally accessing and extracting data from the mailboxes of PSG’s finance director, assistant general manager and management assistant of the two-time French champion between 2015 and 2019 in France, Portugal and Hungary.
In addition to the suspended prison sentence, Rui Pinto was also sentenced to a symbolic payment of one euro in compensation to the club where Portuguese internationals Nuno Mendes, Danilo, Vitinha and Gonçalo Ramos play.
Rui Pinto was sentenced to four years in prison, suspended, in the Football Leaks trial, the decision of which was read out on September 11 at the Central Criminal Court of Lisbon.
The main defendant in this case was found guilty of one crime of attempted extortion, three of aggravated breach of correspondence and five of unlawful access, the rest as a result of the application of the amnesty law approved during the Pope’s visit to Portugal, and from -for lack of proof.
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