PARIS COURT SENTENCES PAUL POGBA’S BROTHER TO PRISON OVER EXTORTION
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After finding him guilty in a well-known extortion case, a Paris court condemned the brother of France player Paul Pogba to three years in jail, with two years suspended, on Thursday.
Instead of going to jail, Mathias Pogba will be able to wear an electronic bracelet for the duration of his one-year sentence.
The brother of Paul Pogba was also punished 20,000 euros by the court for his involvement in the 2022 attempt to extort 13 million euros ($13.5 million) from Pogba and for pressuring the footballer, his family, and his business associates to get the money.
The French football community has been stunned by the case involving six guys connected to Paul Pogba because the accused offenders included Pogba’s brother and three of his childhood buddies.
The five other offenders received sentences of up to eight years in jail and fines ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 euros after being found guilty of extortion, kidnapping, and imprisonment, in addition to involvement in a criminal association.
Considered the case’s mastermind and the only one to show up in custody, Roushdane K. received an eight-year prison sentence.
Mbeko Tabula, Mathias Pogba’s attorney, called the decision “extremely harsh” and stated that he intended to appeal.
He described his client as “clearly in a state of shock.”
“From the outset, he has maintained his innocence, saying that he was manipulated, that he was coerced, that he was pressured, that he would never have acted negatively towards his brother.”
Mathias was the one to go public in the case, publishing a video on social media in August 2022 promising revelations about his younger brother that were “likely to be explosive”.
Pogba told French investigators he had in March 2022 been “tricked by childhood friends” from the gritty Paris suburb where he and Mathias grew up.
He accused them of snatching him before he was held at gunpoint by two hooded men with assault rifles, demanding 13 million euros for “services rendered” and blaming him for not helping them financially.
Pogba said at the time that he had paid them only 100,000 euros.
AFP
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