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Spanish Minister Of Education, Culture & Sport Challenges Football Leaks Gag Order

Spanish Minister of Education, Culture & Sport Íñigo Méndez de Vigo said on Wednesday that he was "surprised" by a Spanish judge's decision to "seek a gag order on 12 European media outlets that alleged massive football fraud," saying it would "have no effect," according to the AFP. The first batch of so-called "Football Leaks" unveiled Friday alleged that Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo and ManU Manager José Mourinho "had been involved in a multimillion-euro tax evasion system." Judge Arturo Zamarriego issued an injunction against all 12 outlets -- including Spain's El Mundo and Germany's Der Spiegel -- at the demand of Senn Ferrero, "a Spanish legal advisory firm that claims some of the information was obtained through a cyber-attack on the company." When asked about the injunction, de Vigo said, "I'm surprised." He acknowledged that he had "not seen the full document." De Vigo added, "Above all, I have the feeling that it's not going to have any effect, and there's no point in doing things that won't have any effect." The judge's injunction claims that the leaks could constitute an offense against the right to privacy "because they were allegedly obtained through the cyber-attack on Senn Ferrero." But in a story on Monday, French investigative news website Mediapart "refuted the cyber-attack allegations, saying the source at the origin of the leaks denied this." It wrote, "This is an attempt at censorship on the scale of an entire continent" (AFP, 12/7).

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