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Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice

Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice

Lisbon's Central Criminal Court acquitted Rui Pinto of all 241 charges in the second Football Leaks trial Wednesday, voiding the Public Prosecutor's indictment as constitutionally defective and rejecting double prosecution on substantively identical facts.
The Portugal Brief
Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC

Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC

Brussels opens INFR(2026)4001 against Portugal for excluding fixed-term public-sector workers from salary-scale progression. Lisbon has two months to fix the LGTFP or face the EU Court of Justice — the second active case Wednesday's package landed on the Montenegro government.
The Portugal Brief