Lisbon (AFP)
Portuguese hacker Rui Pinto, behind the revelations of "Football Leaks" and "Luanda Leaks", will stop being under house arrest in order to be released under judicial supervision, his lawyer Francisco Teixeira da Mota announced on Friday .
"This was possible because he cooperated with the justice system," he told AFP. "He will have to communicate his address and report to the police every week," added the lawyer.
For "security reasons", Me Teixeira da Mota did not specify the exact date on which his client will leave the accommodation allocated by the State when he was placed under house arrest in early April.
"It can take place in the next few hours or tomorrow," he said late Friday.
After more than a year in pre-trial detention, Rui Pinto was placed under house arrest in a judicial police apartment, and deprived of internet access.
The judge in charge of the case estimated at the time that the 31-year-old Portuguese had changed his posture, showing himself willing to collaborate with the Portuguese justice.
Presented by his defenders as a whistleblower, the hacker must be tried from September 4 for attempted extortion, for having tried to blackmail the Doyen Sports investment fund and various computer crimes linked to the so-called leaks " Football Leaks "which he organized from the end of 2015.
These revelations led to the opening of legal proceedings in France, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland and to this day remain the most important leak of information on the backstage of the round ball.
In January, Rui Pinto claimed to be also at the origin of the "Luanda Leaks", a leak of 715,000 compromising documents for the Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the former president José Eduardo dos Santos.
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