Paul Pogba’s brother jailed in extortion case against footballer The defendants repeatedly intimidated Paul Pogba.
A brother of footballer Paul Pogba has been sentenced by a Paris criminal court to three years in prison - two of which are suspended - in an extortion and kidnapping case.
A judge had ordered Mathias Pogba and five other men to stand trial following an investigation into whether the footballer was the target of extortion by his brother Mathias and childhood friends in 2022.
Mathias Pogba went on trial last month “for the offences of attempted extortion and criminal conspiracy”.
Mathias Pogba had already spent time in detention and the remainder of the sentence will be served under house arrest with electronic monitoring.
