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Criminal or saviour? Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto splits opinion
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Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into Manchester City, is understood to fear for his safetyMore than a decade after Rui Pinto set up the Football Leaks website in a crusade triggered by the Fifa scandal in 2015, he finds himself in the middle of a growing storm. The former history student with trademark spiky hair who used to make extra cash selling books about the second world war has not held back with his statements on social media since Manchester City’s guilty verdict from an independent…
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