Mathias Pogba a little more in turmoil.
Referred this Saturday for an indictment, the older brother of the player of the France team is also suspected of having pressured his brother's agent, lawyer Rafaela Pimenta.
He would have sent her threatening messages, in particular for her to try to convince Paul Pogba to pay the sum claimed by his blackmailers, reveals
the Parisian
.
The agent filed a complaint for "
extortion in an organized gang
", confirmed to AFP a judicial source.
“
The facts denounced are taken into account within the framework of the judicial investigation in progress
”, specified this source.
In the first hours of his police custody, Mathias Pogba's lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, had affirmed that his client "
firmly contested any participation in the acts of kidnapping and extortion with a weapon of which his brother Paul Pogba would have been the victim
" .
In a press release released last week, Mathias Pogba said he was "
completely foreign to any extortion maneuver against his brother
".