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Mathias Pogba voluntarily presented himself to the authorities, who are investigating him for his alleged involvement in an “extortion” case against his brother Paul, and was taken into police custody.
Mathias Pogba, brother of French footballer Paul Pogba, has been taken into police custody along with three others as part of an investigation into alleged efforts to extort the Juventus midfielder from Turin. This was reported by the French media on September 14.
According to an official close to the investigation, who preferred to remain anonymous, the world champion’s brother “appeared” voluntarily before the competent authorities “early in the afternoon” and was placed under police arrest, which can last up to 24 hours, and is used to question and verify a suspect’s claims.
The preliminary investigation was opened at the beginning of August, after the complaint filed by the former Manchester United player, in which he accused his brother and people from his close circle “of extortion with a weapon in an organized gang, temporary kidnapping of less than seven days to facilitate a crime and participation in an association of criminals to commit a crime”, something that Mathias Pogba denies.
According to official sources, the midfielder would have given 100,000 euros to his “extortionists” as part of the payment of the 13 million euros they demanded.
Paul Pogba threatened to tell intimacies of his brother
The case gained strength after the older brother of the Les Blues footballer published a video on social networks in which he threatened his brother with telling intimacies of both his and his lawyer, Rafaela Pimienta.
Among these “revelations” is an alleged episode linked to PSG striker Kylian Mbappé.
According to Mathias, Paul would have hired a “sorcerer” for years to harm his teammate of the French team, looking for him to be injured. And although he claimed to have evidence, he still does not show it.
Paul Pogba has denied these accusations before French investigators and before the soccer star, who prefers to stay with his colleague’s version than with Mathias Pogba’s.
With EFE, AP and Reuters
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