Portuguese Government Make Significant Turnaround in Manchester City Whistleblower Rui Pinto’s Witness Protection
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29-second readJosko Gvardiol and the rest of the Man City squad will be closely monitoring the club's appeal against the guilty verdict. One of the most important figures in Manchester City ’s years-long battle with the Premier League is the man who, arguably, started it all.
That man is Rui Pinto, founder of the Football Leaks website, whose hacking activity uncovered much of the documentation that has been used as evidence of the club’s alleged wrongdoing for most of the past decade.
Amidst reports of fears for his safety, it was announced that Pinto would lose the protected witness status granted to him by the Portuguese government.
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Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto, who helped set the Premier League’s investigation into Manchester City in motion, will keep his place in Portugal’s witness protection programme after the plan to strip his status was suspended.
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