#FootballLeaks har fået sin dom: Slipper med betinget fængsel

Rui Pinto, manden bag Football Leaks, har af en domstol i Lissabon fået en betinget fængselsdom på fire år.

https://politiken.dk/sport/art9523066/Football-Leaks-bagmand-har-f%C3%A5et-sin-dom-Slipper-med-betinget-f%C3%A6ngsel

The judge has asked Rui to stand for the final part of her statement. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

She said the four year sentence is suspended, and she also levels about 20,000 euros in fines. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

She is now reading the sentencing. Two years to Anibal Pinto, two year to Rui Pinto for the extortion charges. The combined sentencing on the other charges, adds up to four years of prison for Rui Pinto for the full slate of charges. Because he has collaborated wit hthe court on other cases, they are combining the sentences. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The court finds that the lawyer Anibal Pinto was breaking the lawyer's code of conduct and did engage in extortion. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The court considers that one cannot ignore the positive results of his actions and the corruption he discovered. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The court also thinks he shouldn't have whistleblower protection because of the amount of information he had access to and the comparatively little amount of information he released to the public. They also comment this doesn't typically relate to hacking and to typical whistleblowing cases. #FootballLeaks #RuiPinto

Even if it's in the public interest, the court finds you cannot fetch information by any means necessary. "You cannot fight crime by doing crime" #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Pinto claimed constitutional protections of freedom of expression, but the constitution also protects the integrity of private communications. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The court finds that the charges of (opening another's correspondence) charges can be attenuated because the data release was in the public interest. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Now the judge is discussing the impact of the new amnesty law for young offender. She just explained that the (68?) unauthorized access charges could all be combined because access to one system implied access to others. And the punishment for this crime would fall under the amnesty law as it would be les than one year in prison. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Now the judge is discussing the court's findings on the extortion charge. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The court considers that Rui Pinto acted alone as the sole point of contact for the journalism networks and the sole publisher of the FootballLeaks and Mercado de Benfica blogs. His defense contended that when he was detained, the others involved got scared and stopped publishing, but the court considers they could have continue to contact journalists on their own. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Rui denied owning the Mercado Benfica blog but had the relevant documents on his computer. He has always held he did not act alone, but he was the main point of contact for all the journalists and others who had access to the data. The court thinks he was behind the blog because it stopped posting as soon as he was detained. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

First mention of #LuandaLeaks in the verdict, I didn't catch the context though. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Nelio Lucas and his friends in suits looking like they saw a ghost, btw #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Court says they were fully aware of the meeting between Anibal Pitno and Doyen Sports based on text messages at the time. (I think?) #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

Judge says he didn't know Doyen Sports was being threatened at the same time as he was being approached to act as an IT consultant. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

There is evidence that Doyen Sports offered to hire Rui Pinto as a consultant for IT services. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks

The passwords to the affected email accounts were available to many users. There is no proven result that the meeting (with Nelio Lucas, on the extortion charge) was chosen by the police. #RuiPinto #FootballLeaks