Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, one of five suspects imprisoned over £11m blackmail case

Mathias Pogba (L) together with his brother Paul (AFP through Getty)

Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, is one in every of 5 suspects who've been imprisoned on Saturday night over the continued blackmail case involving the Juventus and France midfielder.

Mathias Pogba, 32, has been accused of ‘extortion in an organised gang’ and ‘participation in a felony affiliation with a view to getting ready against the law’.

He can be held in jail whereas he awaits a call from the choose relating to bail.

‘We're going to problem this resolution,’ Mathias Pogba’s lawyer, Yassine Bouzrou, advised BFMTV on Saturday evening.

Bouzrou added that Mathias ‘has not dedicated a felony offence’.

The 4 different suspects who've been indicted and positioned in pre-trial detention alongside Mathias are aged between 27 and 36 and are family of the Pogba brothers, in response to an AFP supply near investigation.

Romain Boulet, who's defending a 33-year-old man who has been imprisoned as a part of the continued investigation stated: ‘I remorse this resolution, even when it was requested to guard him particularly.

‘He's the sufferer of manipulation and threats from blackmailers, identical to Paul Pogba. It’s a entice that has closed on him.’

Mathias Pogba (R) is accused of being a part of a gaggle which tried to extort £11m from Paul Pogba (AFP through Getty)

On Wednesday, Mathias Pogba was detained in police custody in Paris for his alleged position in a gaggle which tried to extort his youthful brother Paul.

Paul Pogba has accused the gang of demanding €13 million (£11.2m) from him in ‘safety cash’, basically value €1m (£860,000) a 12 months from the age of 16 when he first grew to become an expert footballer.

Pogba, who now performs for Juventus after becoming a member of them on a free switch from Manchester United in the summertime, handed over €100,000 (£85,000) to the group after being escorted at gunpoint to a flat in Roissy-en-Brie, within the japanese suburb of Paris, in March.

The World Cup winner then went to the police after the gang continued to press him for more cash.

In a video he launched on the finish of August, Mathias accused Paul of mendacity to Italian authorities.

‘I hope you gained’t be fooled by an try to govern the media and the authorities,’ stated Mathias.

‘If you end up well-known the world is with you, the authorities pay attention extra attentively. However that doesn’t put you above the regulation, the police aren’t your minions. 

‘Ah, and never way back, my brother claimed to the Italian police that he didn't know our 1st cousin, with whom we grew up, paying him a easy go to and who did nothing to Paul, the household can testify to this. That is a couple of harassment grievance in opposition to an harmless cousin…

‘Some will ask why we're speaking a couple of story about my cousin. Somebody who will not be sincere with policemen with no cause, is he going to be sincere with you, even whether it is by way of legal professionals? In any other case, for the remaining, endurance, it's coming.’

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