{"id":2175949,"date":"2026-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2175949"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:00:00","slug":"manchester-city-whistleblower-rui-pinto-facing-dire-consequences-lawyers-worldnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2175949","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto facing &#8216;dire consequences&#8217; &#8211; lawyers &#8211; Worldnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-article mB40\">\n<div id=\"article-url\">\n<p class=\"art-text\"><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The hacker behind the Football Leaks website which helped trigger the Premier League probe into Manchester City&#8217;s finances, faces &#8220;dire consequences&#8221; after having his protected witness status removed, his lawyers said on Friday.  Rui Pinto &#8220;was informed on Wednesday that the special security programme he has benefited<\/span>&#8230;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t read\u00a0full\u00a0story\n                <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;<i>was informed on Wednesday that the special security programme he has benefited from since August 2020 would end on October 10,<\/i>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2026\/10\/02\/manchester_city_whistleblower_rui_pinto_facing_x27dire_conse\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] The hacker behind the Football Leaks website which helped trigger the Premier League probe into Manchester City&#8217;s finances, faces &#8220;dire consequences&#8221; after having his protected witness status removed, his lawyers said on Friday. Rui Pinto &#8220;was informed on Wednesday that the special security programme he has benefited&#8230; read\u00a0full\u00a0story &#8220;was informed on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,226],"class_list":["post-2175949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-consequence-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}