Rui Pinto will be tried for hacking Benfica’s email. The creator of Football Leaks was accused of 377 crimes, but the Central Criminal Court dismissed 134 crimes related to violation of correspondence, as it applied the amnesty law approved after the arrival of the Pope in Portugal. The judge also ruled out an offense of trespassing.
The hacker is accused of 242 crimes: 201 crimes related to illegal access, 23 crimes related to aggravated correspondence violation, and 18 crimes related to damaging a computer.
Rui Pinto attended the announcement of the educational decision at the Justice Campus in Lisbon.
In addition to the attack on Benfica, he was also accused of accessing the email accounts of judges, prosecutors and other organizations.
“Rui Pinto’s defense against the prosecutor’s office knows what to expect. We understand that this is a perverse strategy that persecutes the accused and perpetuates the trial. This is the second case, the third case is on the way. The court decided not to cancel the strategy of the prosecutor’s office and to grant amnesty for 134 crimes,” lawyer Luisa Teixeira da Mota told the press after leaving the Central Criminal Investigation Department. The court.
João Medeiros, an assistant lawyer in the case representing Benfica, one of the organizations whose email accounts are accessible to the accused, said they were fighting “for the prosecution of all crimes” and would “consider the circumstances of the appeal or not.” decision to apply the amnesty law” to 134 out of 377 crimes.
“The defendant will stand trial for all aggravated trespassing offenses not covered by the amnesty law. Regarding access crimes in their simple form, we understand that in specific circumstances the amnesty law does not apply. Let’s take a look and see. how much this decision contradicts our understanding. If by chance they don’t convince us, we will file an appeal,” João Medeiros emphasized.