Paul Pogba’s brother presented himself on Wednesday, on Wednesday, to investigators as part of the judicial information opened in particular of “extortion with weapon in organized gang”.
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The investigation into the alleged extortion attempt which footballer Paul Pogba would have been ahead of. According to information from the world, the brother of the French team player Mathias, as well as three other people were placed in police custody, between Tuesday September 13 and Wednesday September 14.
According to a source close to the file, Mathias Pogba, 32, “presented himself” on Wednesday afternoon, “in the investigation service” before being placed in police custody.
Contacted by Le Monde, Mathias Pogba’s lawyer, Richard Arbib, has not yet followed up. As for Rafaela Pimenta, Paul Pogba’s lawyer, she did not respond.
The custody of Mathias Pogba and three other people has been a twist since the opening, on September 2, by the Paris prosecutor’s office of “a judicial investigation against X of the Extobrus Managers with a weapon in an organized band organized , kidnapping or sequestration with liberation before the seventh day in a band organized to prepare or facilitate the commission of a crime or an offense and participation in an association of criminals in order to commit a crime “.
On August 3, a preliminary investigation had been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “extortion and attempted extortion in an organized gang”. Paul Pogba had filed a complaint with the Turin prosecutor’s office on July 16. The Italian authorities then alerted, the 1 er August, the Paris prosecutor’s office on “facts likely to have passed in France in connection with this complaint, according to a judicial source.
After the opening of an investigation in France, Paul Pogba was summoned to be heard, at the beginning of August, in the premises of the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO), in Nanterre, in charge of investigations.
13 million euros
According to elements of his hearing, revealed by Franceinfo and confirmed by Le Monde, the player assured that childhood friends would have started to put pressure on him at the end of March, on the sidelines of a gathering of The French team in Clairefontaine (Yvelines). Then visiting Lagny-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), his hometown, Paul Pogba would have been led by his friends in an apartment in the Paris region.
This is where the latter would have criticized him for not having supported them financially. They would then have reminded him that they had discreetly assured his security during his thirteen years of professional career. Two men “armed with assault rifles” and “hooded” would then have initiated him to pay the sum of 13 million euros, including 3 million to pay immediately.
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