The five people in police custody, including Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, were transferred overnight from Friday to Saturday, according to franceinfo. They must be presented to an examining magistrate this Saturday morning. Mathias Pogba, 32, admitted Friday during his police custody to be at the origin of the video broadcast on the internet at the end of August, where he threatened to make revelations about his brother Paul Pogba, learned franceinfo, confirming information from the Parisian.
The brother of the French international explained that he took the initiative for the video but recorded the text in a man considered to be the main suspect in this case. The 37-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday as he was preparing to flee abroad.
Paul Pogba files a complaint on July 16 in Turin
This incredible affair, which is shaking the Blues and more broadly the world of football, started with a complaint filed on July 16 with the Turin prosecutor’s office in Italy by Paul Pogba. The Juventus player denounced in this complaint extortion attempts between March and July 2022 amounting to 13 million euros. But the facts only came to light with the publication on August 27 of an enigmatic video of Mathias Pogba, himself a professional footballer, who promised “revelations” about his brother.
Star of the France team, Paul Pogba had told during his first hearing before the investigators to have been trapped by childhood friends and two hooded men, armed with assault rifles, accusing him of not having helped them financially, according to information from France Info.