Pinto became portion of Portugal's witnesser extortion programme successful 2020 aft agreeing to co-operate with authorities and supply files obtained done the Football Leaks operation.
He posted connected X connected Friday, external that the determination to terminate his information successful the programme connected 10 October has enactment him successful a "life-threatening situation".
The 37-year-old said it had near him with nary alternate but to relocate to an undisclosed determination for an indefinite play due to the fact that of "multiple decease threats" and "the superior hazard of an assassination attempt".
BBC Sport has approached the Commission for the Protection of Victims of Crimes successful Portugal for comment.
Pinto has described himself arsenic a whistleblower, but was convicted successful Portugal of offences including amerciable entree to information and attempted extortion and fixed a four-year suspended sentence.
He wore a bulletproof vest during his archetypal proceedings successful 2020, which was besides taxable to heightened information measures.
Earlier this year, helium was acquitted successful a 2nd proceedings of 241 counts of illegally accessing email accounts belonging to a fig of sports bodies successful Portugal, including Benfica.
On Wednesday, Pinto turned his attraction to Fifa president Gianni Infantino, saying helium had "become a crab connected football" and should "have nary spot successful the aboriginal of the game".
Pinto repeated allegations from 2018 that Infantino intervened to assistance City and Paris St-Germain debar fiscal just play sanctions from European football's governing assemblage Uefa.
Infantino's presumption has precocious travel nether accrued unit pursuing arguable plans to merchantability stakes successful the governing body's competitions, specified arsenic the World Cup, to backstage investors.
A connection from Pinto's lawyers released connected Friday said the determination to extremity his information successful the witnesser extortion programme near him astatine heightened risk, noting ineligible proceedings stemming from the leaks remained ongoing, including the lawsuit against Manchester City.
Pinto has acceptable up a fundraising leafage to assistance him "survive this superior situation", which helium claims was "created by the Portuguese State".
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