Rui Pinto, a 37-year-old hacker known for the Football Leaks disclosures, was acquitted on Wednesday of 241 charges in a second trial in Portugal. The court ruled the charges invalid, citing a prior conviction from September 2023 for similar offenses, where he received a four-year suspended sentence. Pinto had been accused of illegally accessing email accounts of various Portuguese sports organizations, including the football club Benfica, law firms, and the tax authority. The court highlighted that the prosecution violated Pinto's rights, describing the proceedings as 'procedural violence'. Pinto gained notoriety for leaking 18.6 million documents from 2015 to 2018, which exposed financial dealings in football, including contracts of stars like Lionel Messi and Neymar, and a dismissed rape allegation against Cristiano Ronaldo. His legal troubles began in January 2019 when he was arrested in Hungary, leading to over a year in pre-trial detention. He has also faced legal consequences in France for hacking related to Paris Saint-Germain executives.