Our colleagues from France Info revealed, this Sunday evening, what Paul Pogba would have said to the investigators about the threats and extortion attempts of which he would have been the victim.
According to the media, which cites sources familiar with the matter, an investigation for "extortion attempts in an organized gang" on the player of the France team and Juventus Turin has been open since the beginning of August.
Heard by investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime, the world champion would have revealed to be the victim of threats and attempted extortion from his own brother, author of an enigmatic video on TikTok this Saturday , and childhood friends.
13 million euros for “service rendered”
According to his words, the group claimed 13 million euros from him for “service rendered”, ensuring that he had protected him “in all discretion” for 13 years.
According to Paul Pogba, his friends, armed, would have attacked him in an apartment in Lagny-sur-Marne last March, when he visited his family during the international truce, and reproached him for not having them. helped financially since his professional transition.
His brother among the blackmailers
The player would then have claimed to have seen his blackmailers several times in Manchester (where he lived and played until June) and in Turin.
It was at the Juventus training center that he would have recognized his brother among the men who came to intimidate him.
If the presence of the name of Kylian Mbappé had surprised everyone at the publication of the video of Mathias Pogba, it would be explained by a blackmail exercised on Paul Pogba who would have asked a marabout to cast a spell on the PSG striker , his teammate with the Blues.
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