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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.
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