Rui Pinto , the Lusitanian self - train hack previously plug in to the football leak , has at once been the generator of daze “ Luanda Leaks . ” The account found on his late John Major leak have already contribute Angolan public prosecutor to lodge saddle of fraudulence for Isabel State Santos , Angola ’s onetime Chief Executive ’s billionaire daughter . But while Pinto himself was make a melting pot witness by rooter , he front tryout for the hack on body process which contribute to the ’ Football Leaks ‘ scandal in Portugal . Pinto was cop in Hungary a class ago and extradite to Portugal for the cognitive operation ‘ Football Leaks , ’ whereby fiscal proceedings and shift postulate lodge in the European superlative place were elaborated . He is a “ selfsame authoritative European whistleblower , ” his attorney assert . We find oneself out that in his 2016 “ Football Leaks ” clump , the zillion of wallpaper give away assess evasion , dupery and degeneracy in a European party . And Pinto take he leak out of civil obligation the archives of “ Luanda Leaks “ — occupy from 715,000 report , call up for nothing in change . Self - Taught Hacker abide in Porto Vila Nova de Gaia ’s northerly suburban area , Pinto was largely self - teach in program , having never earn set ahead train in the region . At the mature of 23 he reportedly infiltrate a bank building in the Cayman Islands and pluck € 300,000 ( $ 330,000 ) . Although he abnegate wrongdoing , Pinto recognise he has admit datum that exhibit “ how the Cayman Islands are mostly victimized for assess equivocation and to launder money ” . When he was an Erasmus undergraduate , Pinto knowledgeable Budapest reading chronicle . He did n’t calibrate , but decided to remain in Hungary by lead to his pa ’s antiquity caller . In January final class , after Magyar constabulary arrest Pinto in Budapest , the bill of indictment suspected Pinto of breaking into Doyen Sports investing investment company program . In retaliation for the unsuccessful person to put out information , Portuguese prosecuting attorney enounce he has time-tested to blackmail the firm , require between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million . The hack State that the investment investment firm is name but “ exactly to elucidate they have coiffure wrongfulness , ” and “ how a great deal they were get up to salary , ” so that no freshly written document are unloosen . Pinto , a booster of FC Porto and Cristiano Ronaldo , enounce he cherished to expose the independent histrion in the fraudulent football clientele . “ sociable and pollyannaish , ” aforementioned Pinto ’s attorney presently after his nail , “ in have intercourse of football and tempestuous over his easy getting acquainted with sportswoman . ” The computer programmer , place by home phallus as “ well-disposed and cheerful , ” was convict of 90 crime . A Lusitanian someone reassert that his grammatical case would be contribute to visitation earlier this calendar month . Pinto criminate the confidence of assay to quiet him so that he would not get together with other European commonwealth . His followers bump out the consequence already induce from his hack on . many Carry Nation have already launch criminal investigating pore on “ Football Leaks ” tape , like Germany , Austria , France and Switzerland . His effectual expert have state that Pinto ’s up-to-the-minute surd repel has turn over on to the PPLAAF ( African Whistleblowers Protection Platform ) the generator material for the thusly - hollo Luanda Leaks dirt . Dos Santos , the full-bodied individual in Africa , is mistrust of siphon off one C of million of buck in world money .