The court decided this Tuesday to extract a certificate from the Football Leaks process to investigate the Judiciary Police (PJ) inspector Aida Freitas for alleged falsity of document and false statements, after the testimony of the witness at the trial.
The decision of the panel of judges chaired by Margarida Alves took place at the 31st session of the trial underway at the Lisbon Central Criminal Court, following a request from the Public Prosecutor (MP), Marta Viegas, who indicated that Aida Freitas ” signed a report without the content corresponding to the truth”, pointing to a possible incursion “in a crime of false document or false declaration”.
At issue is the fact that the PJ inspector stated that she signed, without reading the External Diligence Report (RDE) of the surveillance operation, the meeting between the former CEO of the Doyen investment fund, Nélio Lucas, and his collaborator Pedro Henriques with the defendant Aníbal Pinto, in the service area of the A5 motorway, in Oeiras, on October 22, 2015, and who was also not responsible for its preparation.
Aida Freitas was inside the space with fellow inspector Hugo Monteiro, a few meters away, and assured that he had not heard “anything” from the conversation between the intervenients, pointing out the possible authorship of the RDE to inspector José Amador, who led the investigation of the Football Leaks case and who was outside the catering space of that service area. The witness even assumed that “if I had read it at the time, I would not have signed it”.
This is already the second certificate extracted from the Football Leaks case to verify the conduct of an element of the PJ. On December 10, the court validated the extraction of a certificate to investigate inspector Rogério Bravo, after a request from the defense of the defendant Aníbal Pinto, who, after the testimony of the lawyer and collaborator of Doyen Pedro Henriques, considered that they were “strongly indicted for the practice of crimes of false testimony, corruption, abuse of power and denial of justice”.
Rui Pinto, 32, is responsible for a total of 90 crimes: 68 of improper access, 14 of violation of correspondence, six of illegitimate access, targeting entities such as Sporting, Doyen, the PLMJ law firm, the Portuguese Federation of Football (FPF) and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), and also for computer sabotage of Sporting’s SAD and for extortion, in the attempted form. This last crime concerns Doyen and was what also led to the indictment of lawyer Aníbal Pinto.
The creator of Football Leaks has been free since August 7th, “due to his collaboration” with the Judiciary Police (PJ) and his “critical sense”, but is, for security reasons, included in the witnesses in an undisclosed location and under police protection.
