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The alleged source of a series of information leaks that rocked soccer and sparked an FFP investigation into the finances of Manchester City Football Club is to be tried before a Portuguese court.
An appeal lodged by Portuguese national Rui Pinto to have the accusations against him dismissed as “unfounded” was rejected earlier this month by the Lisbon Court of Appeal. The 31-year-old, who has been held in jail since his arrest in March 2019, will now stand trial on 93 charges related to hacking, violation of correspondence, computer sabotage, illegitimate access, and attempted extortion.
Pinto is accused of gaining unauthorized access to the email accounts of a number of football clubs throughout Europe. It is further alleged that Pinto sent information pilfered from those clubs to German media for publication.
Revelations allegedly leaked by Pinto regarding the English Premier League football club Manchester City prompted the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to open an investigation to determine whether the club breached Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.
The investigation is ongoing, with a result expected from UEFA’s adjudicatory chamber in the next few months. If evidence of a breach is detected, Manchester City could be expelled from the Champions League. The club, which denies the allegations, will be allowed to appeal against whatever decision UEFA reaches.
Information allegedly leaked by Pinto seemed to reveal that Manchester City had falsely inflated the amount of money it was making in sponsorship deals secured from firms linked to its Abu Dhabi ownership. If the deception proves to be true, then the club will have been caught out in a deliberate attempt to circumvent UEFA’s financial fair play rules.
To share the information allegedly obtained from various football clubs, Pinto created the website Football Leaks. Pinto is accused of using this platform to share illegally obtained secret transfer documents and players’ contracts.
According to a press release put out by his own lawyers, Pinto is also the source of leaked documents that led the Angolan justice system to accuse Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angolan president JosΓ© Eduardo dos Santos, of mismanagement and embezzlement when she was an administrator of the state oil company Sonangol.
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Best let things take there course Adlab.
If City have no charges to answer or they have just cause to have the evidence disbarred based on the way it was obtained that’s what will happen but disbarring the evidence doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t happen.
As I said elsewhere.
“Latest revelations re Cityβs FFP alleged misdemeanors are all very interesting and perhaps explains why an outcome has been some time coming.
Some of the revelations seem very damming but how they were acquired seemingly may not have been totally within the law.
City will have the very best Lawyers working on their behalf who clearly think they have a case to make.
Very difficult to predict the final outcome.
If it was just black and white it would have all been done and dusted by now.”
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Nine.I absolutely agree with you. 100%
However it is annoying how some sources have found City guilty in advance.
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La liga, Fenway, Bayern etc. Thats what needs to be dealt with What have Bayern done???
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Even I & Buffy could accuse the daughter of a dictator for corruption,without any inside sources.
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What have Fenway done adlab?
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Fenway and Bayern Munich are hardly comparable to a Middle Eastern regime. If so I completely missed it.
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Itβs adlab acting like a child again. He says something and never explains why and itβs clear heβs talking Shite yet again
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This is presumably what Adlab is referring to:
“The FA have decided not to progress their investigation into Liverpool spying on Manchester City. A report in The Times last September claimed that City reached a Β£1 million settlement with the Reds in 2013 after their private database on the Scout7 system was accessed from outside the club.”7 Feb 2020
Just muddies the water imo.
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In defence of the Liverpool vs City “hacking scandal”, it was two ex City employees who a few months after joining Liverpool thought they see if their old logins and passwords still worked to access City’s scouting database. And yup it did. It was then settled out of court to a sum of 1 million which was largely forgotten about until Liverpool became better than City. To be honest I think City should have a look at themselves and their cyber security it was hardly secret squirrel code breaking stuff.
Not really the same level as what’s City is being accused for now.
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