Mathias Pogba affirms it, he has nothing to do with the extortions denounced by his brother Paul, who have been the subject for a week of a judicial investigation entrusted to two investigating judges in Paris, announced his lawyer in a press release released on Friday.
"Given the evolution of the case and its media repercussions, Mathias Pogba wishes to indicate with force that he is totally foreign to any maneuver of extortion with regard to his brother, Paul Pogba", writes Me Richard Arbib.
“It is clear that the difficulties experienced by the Pogba family are the result of external threats which the justice system, now seized, will take the measure, he adds.
Mathias Pogba, who aspires more than anything to calm the situation with his brother, will now reserve his word for the investigating judges in charge of this file, if necessary.
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Mathias "under pressure" from extortionists?
In a complaint filed on July 16 with the Turin public prosecutor's office, Paul Pogba denounces extortion attempts between March and July 2022. A sum of 13 million euros was claimed from him and he claims to have paid 100,000 euros.
He then claimed to have recognized his older brother Mathias among the suspects.
During another hearing, he felt with investigators that his brother Mathias was "under pressure" from people wanting to extract money from him.
This complaint led to the opening of a preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office on August 3, then a judicial investigation on September 2 for, in particular, extortion with a weapon, kidnapping or kidnapping in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association.
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