The star of the French football team and Juventus Turin Paul Pogba denounced Sunday “threats” and “extortion attempts in an organized gang” against him, in a press release signed by his lawyers and his agent. . The 2018 world champion reacted the day after a video was broadcast on social networks where his older brother, Mathias Pogba, 32, promised “big revelations” about his younger brother, 29.
In a very strange video, Mathias Pogba announces that he is going to make “big revelations” about his brother Paul, the lawyer heiress of Raiola and agent of his brother Rafaela Pimenta… and about Kylian Mbappé! pic.twitter.com/zs7sDt6pnT
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The authorities also seized in Italy
“Mathias Pogba’s recent statements on social networks are unfortunately not a surprise. They are in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba”, explained in a press release the lawyers of the French international environment. , Yeo Moriba (the mother of Mathias and Paul Pogba) and the player’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta. “The competent authorities in Italy and France were seized a month ago and there will be no further comments in relation to the ongoing investigation”, they specify in this press release.
An investigation has been opened in France and entrusted to the services of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ), a source familiar with the matter told AFP.
“All of this could be explosive”
In a video posted on social networks in four languages (French, Italian, English and Spanish), Mathias Pogba, himself a professional footballer, announced on Saturday “great revelations about (s) his brother Paul Pogba and his agente Rafaela Pimenta”, who has just taken over the company from the recently deceased Mino Raiola.
Paul Pogba’s brother, facing the camera, affirms that “the whole world” like his club Juventus Turin and the “sponsors” “deserve to know certain things in order to decide in full knowledge of the facts whether he (Paul Pogba) really deserves admiration, respect, his place in the France team, if he is a trustworthy person”. “All this risks being explosive”, he concludes, without further details on the nature of his “revelations”.
According to two sources close to the Pogba family contacted by AFP, large sums of money are being demanded from Paul Pogba if he wants to avoid the dissemination of allegedly compromising videos.