BREAKING: Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, is one of four suspects who have been imprisoned on Saturday evening over the ongoing blackmail case involving the Juventus and France midfielder.
Mathias Pogba, 32, has been accused of ‘extortion in an organised gang’ and ‘participation in a criminal association with a view to preparing a crime’.‘We are going to challenge this decision,’ Mathias Pogba’s lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, told BFMTV on Saturday night.The four other suspects who have been indicted and placed in pre-trial detention alongside Mathias are aged between 27 and 36 and are relatives of the Pogba brothers, according to an AFP source close to investigation.
Romain Boulet, who is defending a 33-year-old man who has been imprisoned as part of the ongoing investigation said: ‘I regret this decision, even if it was requested to protect him in particular. ‘He is the victim of manipulation and threats from blackmailers, just like Paul Pogba. It’s a trap that has closed on him.’On Wednesday,
Mathias Pogba was detained in police custody in Paris for his alleged role in a group which attempted to extort his younger brother PaulPaul Pogba has accused the gang of demanding €13 million from him in ‘protection money’, essentially worth €1m a year from the age of 16 when he first became a professional footballer.
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