Former Doyen CEO believes Rui Pinto’s sentence “could have been harsher”

The former CEO of the investment fund Doyen said this Monday that the suspended four-year prison sentence imposed on Rui Pinto in the Football Leaks case “could have been more severe.”

“For a long time, many people questioned what we said and that there was in fact an extortion attempt, but it was unsuccessful because we were never going to pay either. We wanted to find the criminals and bring them to justice. “The court accepted our version of the facts as complete. He was punished very well, I think it could have been a more severe sentence, but that’s what the court understood,” Nelio Lucas said.

For the former executive director of Doyen Sports Investment, who saw this Monday the court found proven an attempted extortion on the part of the accused Ruy Pinto and Anibal Pinto, the regret expressed in court by the creator of Football Leaks was only useful and that Ruy Pinto knew he had committed the crime , demanding money to stop publishing Doyen’s confidential information.

“He himself admitted that he regretted it because his life was in disarray, so it is regret that helps him the most. He knew exactly what he was doing, what he was doing, he was advised by someone who should have known even more than he did, a person who was also punished. Justice has been done and I am very happy about it,” he told reporters as he left Lisbon’s Central Criminal Court, where he attended the announcement of the decision.

Ruy Pinto was sentenced this Monday to a single sentence of four years in prison, suspended. The court found the creator of Football Leaks guilty of attempted extortion of the investment fund Doyen, three crimes of aggravated falsification of correspondence with lawyers Joao Medeiros, Ruy Costa Pereira and Ines Almeida Costa, as well as five crimes of illegal access to Doyen, Sporting , Portuguese Football Federation, law firm PLMJ and the Attorney General’s Office.