The JDD reveals exclusively this Sunday the hearing of Rafaela Pimenta. The world champion’s lawyer, who received “a threatening message” from Mathias, Paul Pogba’s older brother, also involves his twin.
The JDD has unveiled the version of the Brazilian lawyer of Paul Pogba in the extortion case which is shaking French football. Rafaela Pimenta filed a complaint on August 16 against Mathias Pogba for acts of “menace sous condition“. The eldest brother of the world champion had sent him a long message on August 14, waving the blackmail of ruining the career of the “most powerful woman in football».
In her hearing, she goes back at length to the robbery of Paul Pogba led into an apartment by childhood friends on the sidelines of a rally of the France team on March 19. “They told him they had evidence that Paul was doing dark magic.“About this recourse to a marabout, the lawyer, if she never mentions the name of Kylian Mbappé, recognizes it:”Paul does not hide it, he made donations to a wise man, for prayers and to send food to Africa“. According to her, this sequestration lasted nearly 3 hours.
Required to sign documents to invest in Dubai
Rafaela Pimenta then reveals that during “of the last Ramadan, they made Paul sign documents for him to participate by investing in a company in Dubai. According to them, it freed up the money. Paul felt compelled to sign… Now the group as well as Mathias, Paul’s brother, are using this document to put pressure on Paul’s mother saying ”he signed, he has to keep his word, he must pay”. So Paul started transferring the money but, at the last moment, he gave up. Paul changed numbers and thought he was done.»
Wrongly. The lawyer confirms subsequent “visits” to Manchester and then to Turin, as well as that of Mathias and three other people to the mother of Paul Pogba on July 31 in the Paris suburbs. The older brother would have claimed a transfer of 5,000 euros “because he was exposed». «Mathias yelled at his mother. They showed a video where a person gets shot in the hand saying it was Roushdane who got shot. But, according to Paul’s mother, we cannot identify the person or persons on the video.»
Rafaela Pimenta reveals the involvement of Florentin, Mathias’ twin
Rafaela Pimenta reveals above all the involvement of the second eldest brother of Paul Pogba, Florentin (twin of Mathias). “Paul told me that Mathias and Florentin had approached one of his close friends, a nicknamed Doudou. They told their version of the story by telling Doudou that if Paul didn’t pay, he was going to take a bullet… »
