A brother of the World Cup triumphner Paul Pogba was sentenced to three years in prison – two of which are suspfinished – by a Paris criminal court on Thursday in an compulsion and seizeping case.
Mathias Pogba has already spent time in detention and the remainder of the sentence will be served under hoengage arrest with electronic seeing. This sentence was in line with the prosecution’s seek. His lawyer shelp he would probably pguide aacquirest the ruling.
“He is in a state of shock,” the lawyer, Mbeko Tabula, shelp. “From the outset, he has upgrasped his innocence. They did not apshow into account the fact that he has been manipupostponeedd, the fact that he has been forced to do skinnygs beyond his regulate.”
The case in court took place without the establisher Manchester United and Juventus joiner. A appraise ordered Mathias and five other men to stand trial after an spendigation into whether Paul was the aim of compulsion by Mathias and childhood frifinishs in 2022. Mathias went on trial last month “for the offences of tryed compulsion and criminal consunapexhibitd engage”.
The five others needed €13m from the France midfielder, who was held up at firearmpoint by hooded men in March 2022. The deffinishants repeatedly inbashfupostponeedd Paul, claiming he should have helped them after he became an international football star. They were accengaged of compulsion, catch and restrictment to ease a crime, as well as criminal consunapexhibitd engage.
Roushdane K, doubted of masterminding the bconciseagemail, was sentenced to eight years in prison. The others also getd jail terms.
According to the lhorrible records, the court also create that Paul suffered economic losses of €197,000 and moral losses of €50,000. It ordered all the deffinishants except Mathias to jointly pay this sum to the establisher Juventus joiner.
During the spendigation, Paul shelp he phelp €100,000 to the organised group including his brother.
The case became accessible after Mathias posted dangers on social media to split “device” revelations about his brother, Kylian Mbappé and Paul’s agent, Rafaela Pimenta. Mathias was also a football joiner and spent most of his atsoft with shrink-tier teams in Europe.
This month, Juventus shelp they had come to “a mutual concurment” with Paul to abort his tight despite his prohibit for a fall shorted drug test being slashed. Paul will be free to resume his atsoft in March.
