Rui Pinto, the hacker behind the Football Leaks revelations that exposed dodgy dealings in world football, was acquitted on Wednesday of all charges in a second Portuguese trial, despite having previously been convicted for similar offences. The 37-year-old had been on trial since January 2025 over 241 alleged counts of illegally accessing email accounts belonging to several Portuguese sports bodies, including football club Benfica, law firms, magistrates and the tax authority. The case was dismissed after the court ruled that the charges were “invalid”, as it pertained to a case for which Pinto had already been tried and convicted in September 2023. At the time he was handed a four-year suspended prison sentence for a series of cybercrimes, as well as attempted extortion targeting a sports investment fund. “The prosecution violated the rights of the defendant,” who was subjected to “procedural violence”, the court said in its ruling, quoted by several local media outlets.…