Pinto turned a part of Portugal’s witness safety programme in 2020 after agreeing to co-operate with authorities and supply recordsdata obtained by way of the Soccer Leaks operation.
He posted on X on Friday, exterior that the choice to terminate his participation within the programme on 10 October has put him in a “life-threatening state of affairs”.
The 37-year-old stated it had left him with no different however to relocate to an undisclosed location for an indefinite interval due to “a number of demise threats” and “the intense danger of an assassination try”.
BBC Sport has approached the Fee for the Safety of Victims of Crimes in Portugal for remark.
Pinto has described himself as a whistleblower, however was convicted in Portugal of offences together with unlawful entry to knowledge and tried extortion and given a four-year suspended sentence.
He wore a bulletproof vest throughout his first trial in 2020, which was additionally topic to heightened safety measures.
Earlier this yr, he was acquitted in a second trial of 241 counts of illegally accessing e-mail accounts belonging to quite a lot of sports activities our bodies in Portugal, together with Benfica.
On Wednesday, Pinto turned his consideration to Fifa president Gianni Infantino, saying he had “change into a most cancers on soccer” and will “don’t have any place in the way forward for the sport”.
Pinto repeated allegations from 2018 that Infantino intervened to assist Metropolis and Paris St-Germain keep away from monetary truthful play sanctions from European soccer’s governing physique Uefa.
Infantino’s place has not too long ago come beneath elevated stress following controversial plans to promote stakes within the governing physique’s competitions, such because the World Cup, to non-public buyers.
An announcement from Pinto’s attorneys launched on Friday stated the choice to finish his participation within the witness safety programme left him at heightened danger, noting authorized proceedings stemming from the leaks remained ongoing, together with the case in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
Pinto has arrange a fundraising web page to assist him “survive this critical state of affairs”, which he claims was “created by the Portuguese State”.