Football Leaks was a leak in association football revealing "murky" financial transactions in the world of European professional football and exposes the tax tricks employed by some of the continent's biggest stars. It began with a series of investigations published in December 2016[1] and November 2018[2] by media partners of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), such as Der Spiegel,[3]Mediapart,[4]El Mundo,[5]Expresso,[6]Falter,[7]L'espresso,[8] and Le Soir.[9]
Initially, Football Leaks was a website containing confidential information about notable footballers and clubs.[10][11][12][13][14]
Rui Pinto, the author of Football Leaks,[15] was arrested in Budapest, Hungary, on 16 January 2019 at the request of the Portuguese authorities for suspicion of attempted qualified extortion, violation of secrecy and illegally accessing information.[16][17] He was extradited to Portugal and has been charged with 147 crimes by the Public Ministry.[18][19]
Rui Pinto was found guilty of three counts of intercepting correspondence and accessing private emails, one count of attempted extortion and five counts of unauthorized entry and hacking into computers belonging to the Doyen Sports Investment Fund, the Portuguese attorney general’s office, and a Lisbon law firm.[20] As a result, he was sentenced to a suspended sentence of four years.[20]
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^"'Hacker' Rui Pinto já está em Portugal" [Hacker Rui Pinto is already in Portugal]. SAPO Desporto (in Portuguese). 21 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
^Oliveira, Mariana; Dantas, Miguel (19 September 2019). "Ministério Público acusa Rui Pinto de 147 crimes" [Public Ministry charge Rui Pinto with 147 crimes]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 September 2019.
^ abSanghera (11 September 2023). "Court convicts Portuguese hacker in Football Leaks trial and gives him a 4-year suspended sentence". apnews.com. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
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