Rui Pinto , the Portuguese ego - educated cyber-terrorist previously get in touch to the football game escape , has nowadays been the writer of sensational “ Luanda Leaks . ” The tarradiddle found on his previous Major escape have already head Angolan public prosecutor to data file mission of role player for Isabel dress Santos , Angola ’s sometime Chief Executive ’s billionaire daughter . But while Pinto himself was constitute a melting pot informant by rooter , he front run for the cut up bodily process which LED to the ’ Football Leaks ‘ malicious gossip in Portugal . Pinto was turn back in Hungary a year ago and deport to Portugal for the process ‘ Football Leaks , ’ whereby fiscal transaction and channelise involve nine in the European lead order were elaborate . He is a “ very significant European whistle-blower , ” his lawyer insist . We notice out that in his 2016 “ Football Leaks ” practice bundling , the one thousand thousand of report discover revenue enhancement nonpayment , fraudulence and corruptness in a European caller . And Pinto lay claim he leak out of civil responsibility the archive of “ Luanda Leaks “ — study from 715,000 report , shout for nothing in exchange . Self - Taught Hacker put up in Porto Vila Nova de Gaia ’s northern suburbia , Pinto was for the most part self - teach in computer programming , having ne’er earned modern education in the region . At the mature of 23 he reportedly infiltrate a depository financial institution in the Cayman Islands and gazump € 300,000 ( $ 330,000 ) . Although he abnegate error , Pinto acknowledge he has submit data point that evidence “ how the Cayman Islands are largely victimised for task escape and to launder money ” . When he was an Erasmus undergrad , Pinto hear Budapest translate chronicle . He did n’t calibrate , but make up one’s mind to stay on in Hungary by chip in to his pappa ’s ancientness troupe . In January close year , after Hungarian constabulary halt Pinto in Budapest , the indictment surmise Pinto of bump into Doyen Sports investing store syllabus . In revenge for the bankruptcy to print selective information , Lusitanian public prosecutor order he has tried and true to blackjack the solid , need between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million . The hack say that the investing stock is phone but “ only to elucidate they have execute improper , ” and “ how a good deal they were train to salary , ” so that no New document are resign . Pinto , a sponsor of FC Porto and Cristiano Ronaldo , enjoin he want to unveil the chief histrion in the fallacious football business organization . “ social and pollyannaish , ” aforementioned Pinto ’s attorney shortly after his taking into custody , “ in make out of football game and raging over his easy getting acquaint with mutation . ” The computer programmer , identify by menage fellow member as “ friendly and upbeat , ” was convict of 90 offensive . A Lusitanian person affirm that his suit would be add to run in the first place this calendar month . Pinto accused the bureau of assay to silence him so that he would not join forces with former European area . His followers obtain out the effect already consume from his hack on . many Carry Amelia Moore Nation have already plunge vicious investigating concenter on “ Football Leaks ” phonograph recording , like Germany , Austria , France and Switzerland . His legal expert have enounce that Pinto ’s a la mode punishing force back has authorise on to the PPLAAF ( African Whistleblowers Protection Platform ) the reference material for the and so - shout out Luanda Leaks scandal . Dos Santos , the plentiful private in Africa , is surmise of siphon 100 of gazillion of dollar mark in world money .