The Pogba siblings are on the way to monopolizing the legal news. As confirmed by World a judicial source, Mathias Pogba, Paul’s older brother, is due to appear on Saturday, September 17, at 10 a.m., before an investigating judge, like four other suspects, ” for their examination “, as part of the investigation into the extortion attempt of which the footballer Paul Pogba would have been the victim.
The interrogation of the five men, aged 27 to 36, comes at the end of their police custody, which lasted several days. Mathias Pogba, 32, presented himself on Wednesday, September 14, to the investigation service. His lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, assures that his client “disputes being involved in the alleged extortion attempt”.
On the other hand, Mathias Pogba admitted, during his police custody, to being at the initiative of a video published on social networks, at the end of August, in which he threatened to divulge sensitive information on the player. Blues as well as his lawyer and agent, Rafaela Pimenta.
According The Parisian, Mme Pimenta reportedly accused Mathias Pogba during her August hearing by investigators of pressuring her to convince Paul Pogba to pay a sum of money to the alleged blackmailers. The lawyer filed a complaint in France for “extortion in an organized gang”. Contacted by The worldMme Pimenta has not responded yet. As for Mathias Pogba, he contests the lawyer’s accusations.
Meeting in an apartment
The profile of the other suspects – childhood friends of Paul Pogba, from Roissy-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne) – remains, at this stage, still unclear. All deny being blackmailers in this affair.
One of them is very close to Paul Pogba and his family. He was, on March 19, in the company of other suspects and the player at a meeting organized in an apartment in the Paris region and located by the investigators. During his hearing in August, the star of Juventus Turin accused the suspects of having, that day, on the sidelines of a rally of the Blues, started to put pressure on him, in this apartment.
This is where the suspects would have accused him of not having supported them financially. They would then have reminded him that they had discreetly ensured his safety during his thirteen years of professional career. Two men “armed with assault rifles” and “hooded” would then have appeared and would have ordered him to pay the sum of 13 million euros, including 3 million to be paid immediately. They would have threatened the player to reveal the sensitive contents of a USB key.
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