To prosecute the criminal or the criminal who blew the whistle on the criminal? Portugal? Comments?
Investigate all crimes uncovered, and prosecute everyone to the full extent of the law.
Because for a start the source is tainted, and nothing ensures that the alleged evidence used to extort Rui Pinto's targets was not entirely made up.
Secondly, although the accusations deserve an investigation, accepting prejudicial info release by criminals following a botched extortion campaign ends up validating extortion as a business model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
The incentives become for the state to pony up bitcoin to any hacker that will obtain evidence against alleged criminals and have them "publish" it. Then the state is free to use the evidence without any pesky search warrants or judicial oversight.
Divide, confuse and conquer!!
Also through bread and circus, where trash TV, social media, sports etc. make the circus.
It's the ancient old [1] way of controlling the enemy land (and today the masses) by keeping people fed, distracted then fueling fights among small groups so that they wouldn't feel the need to unite against the oppressor.
[1] Divide et impera (divide and conquer) and panem et circenses (bread and circus) phrases were coined thousands of years ago.
Yes football is still being used as tool, even in Europe to distract people that should know better. Combine that with crappy education et voila!
I kindly remind how one of the filthiest and most violent (UK) football scene was cleaned up when true political will was present. And you can see some other European countries (Portugal, Greece) where there only 1-2 teams good enough to be champions, who happen to have massive following, and said following is usually lower class.