Football Leaks hacker Rui Pinto - the man who exposed Manchester City's breaking of Financial Fair Play rules - remains in prison awaiting a court case.

Pinto hacked his way into club emails from his Portugal home in 2015 and then passed them on to the media and sparked the investigation into City's finances.

Despite being widely praised by the football world, Pinto was arrested and sent to prison, and will face a trial for 90 different counts of hacking, sabotage and fraud.

Pinto was denied an appeal on Thursday and has been in jail since last March, while awaiting a verdict by the Lisbon Court of Appeal.

News of UEFA's decision to ban City from the Champions League for the next two seasons saw Pinto's name start trending with the hashtag #freePinto on Friday night.

Borussia Dortmund fans even held aloft a banner appealing for authorities to drop the case and allow Pinto to walk free.

Football Leaks was created back in 2015 and has exposed everything from tax fraud to clubs breaching FFP.

Pinto reportedly got hold of 70 million documents and 3.4 terabytes of information and told Der Spiegel recently that he was aware of the risks of his work.

'I was aware that anything could happen,' he said to the German newspaper. 'I knew that Portuguese authorities prosecute whistleblowers, so I had to be ready for that.

The Portuguese authorities are afraid of what I know and that's why it is important that I not lose my mind.

'In the beginning, I wrote notes related to the case in my notebook, but then it was taken from me. My lawyer was present when they searched my cell and said it was illegal to take my notes from me.

It wasn't the prison guards who did it, but the Portuguese prosecutors. They do anything they want. It was a month before they returned the notebook to me.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8006067/Meet-man-downed-Manchester-City-Football-Leaks-hacker-Rui-Pinto-prison.html

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HD pictures of Manciteh village people.

Alas, he's just a man

#Freepinto

Fvck City & every other club breaching the rules

Here a 30 year old is still seen as Leader of Tomorrow. Still unemployed, or Npower beneficiary, or BMC miscreant.

YOUNGELDER1:
#Freepinto

Fvck City & every other club breaching the rules

Freepinto, but you guys are still the ones criticising Mompha and Hushpuppi dem. Hypocrites!!

Man city are in deeper poo

Davash222:

Freepinto, but you guys are still the ones criticising Mompha and Hushpuppi dem. Hypocrites!!

You must be a drunkard !
Quote any of post or criticism against Hush & the likes.
What’s my business with Hush & Co?

YOUNGELDER1:


You must be a drunkard !
Quote any of post or criticism against Hush & the likes.
What’s my business with Hush & Co?

Abeg, park one side!

Interesting...

This guy could have been sitting in billions in Nigeria ooo if he did same here.

Audio money sha...

Please make this man FIFA president.

And thats what i call lucrative cyber crime
Not all diz send me itunes card boys we hav in 9ja

Abhgfsykj expo


bad guy...

If naija guy know half of Wetin ds guy know eh....

Kill the snitch

lol those arab owners go they swear for him head
ps; i think say na only naija get village pple

lol those arab owners go they swear for him head
ps; i think say na only naija get village pple

So happy for city.... They have really worked hard.

The Killer of Manchester City dreams

Sowore can't not gather mind like this small boy

Small DSS he was crying and pooping in his pant spits

nepapole:
So happy for city.... They have really worked hard.

did you read the story at all?

Authoreety:
Abhgfsykj expo

This is serious

Thank you Rui Pinto...

next season
Buhari will invite Man City 2 Nigeria 2 play friendly with Nasarawa Utd n other Zombies will hail him n call it achievement

As d word implies HACK

but Man UTD nor gree leapfrog.See opportunity

UEFA paid him to do it, corrupt set of eediots

seunlayi:
did you read the story at all?

lol

You've made some people very happy

space for sale!
Bet9ja guy, this is for you