The explosive and sordid case involving Paul Pogba has not revealed all its secrets.
Victim of threats and extortion attempts from his older brother and childhood friends, as he mentioned during his hearings with the police after the opening of an investigation last August, the world champion paid 100,000 euros to the criminals according to
France Info
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A sum paid in March 2022, when the extortionists threatened the professional footballer on the sidelines of an international meeting with the France team.
According to our colleagues who had access to the file, Paul Pogba, faced with the insistence of his childhood friends who demanded 13 million euros for “service rendered” including three to be paid immediately, would have tried to withdraw this sum.
But his bankers refused and the latter, under pressure, was still able to withdraw 100,000 euros before giving them to his attackers.
He would also have signed a paper in order to undertake to pay the rest of the sum.
Faced with this critical situation, the Blues midfielder subsequently initiated the opening of an investigation for "extortion attempts in an organized gang".