Fifa have been using ‘Football Leaks’ documents as a ‘hugely useful investigative tool’ for years, despite being aware they may have been obtained by hacking. Rui Pinto is accused of hacking to compile the Leaks, and is appealing extradition to his native Portugal from Hungary on the grounds of being a whistle-blower. Goddard reveals that Fifa did their own checks on the Leaks papers when they began appearing in 2015, and found them authentic and credible. He said: “We knew he [Pinto] was getting primary source material, and having verified the quality and veracity of those documents, we were thinking ‘Jesus! We could ask ‘Did you guys do blah blah and blah blah?, and they’d sit there, going ‘Holy s***!

Source: The Star March 11, 2019 02:23 UTC