Paul Pogba’s older brother, Mathias Pogba, and four men are presented on Saturday September 17, 2022 to an examining magistrate “with a view to their indictment” as part of the investigation into the extortion of funds denounced by the star of the Blues, learned from a judicial source AFP. The Parisian adds that Rafaela Pimenta, Paul Pogba’s agent, has filed a complaint, claiming to have been pressured by the footballer’s older brother. She would have received threatening text messages from the suspect’s phone. Heard by investigators in the extortion case involving her sons Paul and Mathias Pogba, their mother Yeo Moriba was for her part subjected to images that were terrible to say the least in order to encourage her to speak.
According to information from Parisian, Rafaela Pimenta, a trained lawyer and defensive midfielder for Juventus Turin, heard in August in the context of the case, accused Mathias Pogba of having pressured her to push her foal to pay the sum demanded of him by the alleged racketeers. She would have received threatening text messages from the suspect’s phone. At the end of the hearing, the one who considers the French international as “his son” also filed a complaint against Mathias Pogba for “extortion in an organized gang”, a complaint now paid into the investigation.
Mathias Pogba, 32, who went himself to the investigating service on Wednesday, admitted to being at the initiative of the video threatening Paul Pogba broadcast on August 27. The other four suspects, relatives of the Pogba brothers aged 27 to 36, had been in police custody since Tuesday and Wednesday at the premises of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (Oclco). All are relatives of the Pogba brothers. No details were given on their role in this incredible affair which shook the world of football two months before the Qatar World Cup.
In the enigmatic video of Mathias Pogba, who had brought to light the extortions of which Paul Pogba claims to be a victim, the eldest promised “revelations” about his younger brother. The Juventus player had filed a complaint with the Turin public prosecutor’s office (Italy) on July 16, denouncing extortion amounting to 13 million euros between March and July 2022. The Paris public prosecutor’s office had opened a preliminary investigation then information court on September 2 for, in particular, extortion with a weapon, kidnapping or kidnapping in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association.
Star of the France team, Paul Pogba said during his first hearing before the investigators that he was trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, accusing him of not having helped them financially. , according to information from France Info radio, confirmed to AFP by a source familiar with the matter. A sum of 13 million euros would have been claimed from him and he says he paid 100,000 euros.
The 29-year-old midfielder, nicknamed the “Pickaxe”, then claimed to have recognized his older brother Mathias among the suspects. However, he had estimated, during another hearing, that Mathias was “under pressure“people wanting to extract money from him. In a statement released last week, Mathias Pogba claimed to be”totally foreign to any extortion maneuver against his brother, Paul Pogba“.