His leaked documents led to Man City's guilty verdict, but his official protection has ended.
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His leaked documents led to Man City's guilty verdict, but his official protection has ended.
Rui Pinto, the whistleblower whose leaked documents underpinned the Premier League's case against Manchester City, will no longer receive witness protection, Al Jazeera reported. The Portuguese hacker's materials showed City breached financial rules over nearly a decade. The Premier League found the club used sham contracts to inflate revenues, with secret owner funding exceeding £900 million.
Pinto, 37, is the founder of the Football Leaks website, which he started in 2015 to expose corruption in football. He was arrested in Budapest in 2019 and extradited to Portugal, where he received a four-year suspended sentence for cybercrimes and attempted extortion in 2023, according to Al Jazeera. The outlet also reported he was later acquitted on 241 other charges in 2026. His leaks exposed player salaries and brought global attention to a rape allegation against Cristiano Ronaldo, which was later dismissed in a U.S. court.
Separately, the BBC reported political fallout from Manchester City's guilty verdict. Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, said he would be 'really concerned' if the club's Abu Dhabi-based owners sold their stake, a comment the Conservative Party called 'completely out of touch' and 'frankly extraordinary'. A Downing Street spokesperson said the prime minister stressed the independent process must be respected, adding that 'if wrongdoing is established, those responsible should face the appropriate consequences'. Manchester City denies wrongdoing and has until Friday to appeal the verdict.
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