Beaten on the pitch and in court: Benfica appeal Rui Pinto acquittal | OneFootball

Benfica will appeal the court ruling that, at first instance, acquitted Rui Pinto in the Football Leaks case, CNN Portugal reports.

The club led by Rui Costa thus joins the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which had already announced its intention to challenge and try to overturn, at the Lisbon Court of Appeal, the judgment that cleared the hacker of all the crimes he was accused of — including unlawful access, through computer intrusion, to the email inboxes of senior officials at the club from Luz.

It is worth recalling that the court of first instance considered the indictment invalid and unfounded with regard to the 241 crimes attributed to Rui Pinto.

Rui Pinto faced dozens of charges of aggravated unlawful access, aggravated violation of correspondence, and computer damage. At issue was the alleged access to Benfica, FC Porto, the Football League, the Tax Authority, and the National Internal Security Network emails and documents, among other targets.

Rui Pinto was convicted in the Football Leaks case in September 2023 by the Lisbon Central Criminal Court and sentenced to four years in prison, suspended, for similar crimes.

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