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Summary

• Rui Pinto, the hacker behind the Football Leaks website and a key figure in exposing financial irregularities within Manchester City, is facing significant challenges after losing his protected witness status.
• Effective October 10, 2023, his security arrangements will be terminated, leaving him without secure housing or guaranteed police protection, despite past threats and an assault linked to his revelations impacting powerful individuals.
• Pinto, who has cooperated with various European authorities by providing access to extensive encrypted files, received a suspended sentence in 2023 for charges including attempted extortion and illegal data access.
• His legal team warns of his increased vulnerability following this abrupt change in his protection status.

LISBON, Oct 3 — Computer hacker Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website which helped trigger the Premier League probe into Manchester City’s finances, faces “dire consequences” after having his protected witness status removed, his lawyers said yesterday.

Pinto “was informed on Wednesday that the special security programme he has benefited from since August 2020 would end on October 10,” his Portuguese lawyers Francisco and Luisa Teixeira da Mota said in a joint statement with his French representatives William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth.

“In a few days, without having been given a prior hearing as required by law,...

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